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BOOK OF HOURS, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. [Bruges, ca 1460]
86 x 67mm. 169 leaves, apparently COMPLETE, 15 lines written in black ink in a gothic bookhand, justification: 53 x 37mm, rubrics in pink, one-line initials alternately of blue or burnished gold with flourishing of red or black, two-line initials of burnished gold with grounds and infills of pink and blue with white decoration, FIFTEEN LARGE ILLUMINATED INITIALS AND FULL-PAGE BORDERS (slight cropping of borders, occasional rubbing, smudging and offsetting). 19th-century russia gilt (worn, boards detached). Provenance: Cornelius J. Hauck (bookplate).
CONTENT:
Calendar ff.1-12v; Short Hours of the Cross ff.13-19v; Short Hours of the Holy Spirit ff.20-25; Mass of the Virgin ff.26-32; Office of the Virgin, use of Rome ff.33-101: matins f.33, lauds f.52, prime f.63, terce f.68, sext f.72, none f.76, vespers f.80, compline f.88, variants for Advent f.94; Prayer to the Virgin, Obsecro te ff.102-105v; Seven Penitential Psalms ff.106-125; Office of the Dead ff.126-169; prayer added in a 15th-century hand on f.169v.
Although modest in size and produced without miniatures this is a carefully and extensively decorated Book of Hours showing all the stylistic characteristics associable with products of the book trade in Bruges in the 1460s.
86 x 67mm. 169 leaves, apparently COMPLETE, 15 lines written in black ink in a gothic bookhand, justification: 53 x 37mm, rubrics in pink, one-line initials alternately of blue or burnished gold with flourishing of red or black, two-line initials of burnished gold with grounds and infills of pink and blue with white decoration, FIFTEEN LARGE ILLUMINATED INITIALS AND FULL-PAGE BORDERS (slight cropping of borders, occasional rubbing, smudging and offsetting). 19th-century russia gilt (worn, boards detached). Provenance: Cornelius J. Hauck (bookplate).
CONTENT:
Calendar ff.1-12v; Short Hours of the Cross ff.13-19v; Short Hours of the Holy Spirit ff.20-25; Mass of the Virgin ff.26-32; Office of the Virgin, use of Rome ff.33-101: matins f.33, lauds f.52, prime f.63, terce f.68, sext f.72, none f.76, vespers f.80, compline f.88, variants for Advent f.94; Prayer to the Virgin, Obsecro te ff.102-105v; Seven Penitential Psalms ff.106-125; Office of the Dead ff.126-169; prayer added in a 15th-century hand on f.169v.
Although modest in size and produced without miniatures this is a carefully and extensively decorated Book of Hours showing all the stylistic characteristics associable with products of the book trade in Bruges in the 1460s.
BOOK OF HOURS, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. [Bruges, ca 1460]
86 x 67mm. 169 leaves, apparently COMPLETE, 15 lines written in black ink in a gothic bookhand, justification: 53 x 37mm, rubrics in pink, one-line initials alternately of blue or burnished gold with flourishing of red or black, two-line initials of burnished gold with grounds and infills of pink and blue with white decoration, FIFTEEN LARGE ILLUMINATED INITIALS AND FULL-PAGE BORDERS (slight cropping of borders, occasional rubbing, smudging and offsetting). 19th-century russia gilt (worn, boards detached). Provenance: Cornelius J. Hauck (bookplate).
CONTENT:
Calendar ff.1-12v; Short Hours of the Cross ff.13-19v; Short Hours of the Holy Spirit ff.20-25; Mass of the Virgin ff.26-32; Office of the Virgin, use of Rome ff.33-101: matins f.33, lauds f.52, prime f.63, terce f.68, sext f.72, none f.76, vespers f.80, compline f.88, variants for Advent f.94; Prayer to the Virgin, Obsecro te ff.102-105v; Seven Penitential Psalms ff.106-125; Office of the Dead ff.126-169; prayer added in a 15th-century hand on f.169v.
Although modest in size and produced without miniatures this is a carefully and extensively decorated Book of Hours showing all the stylistic characteristics associable with products of the book trade in Bruges in the 1460s.
86 x 67mm. 169 leaves, apparently COMPLETE, 15 lines written in black ink in a gothic bookhand, justification: 53 x 37mm, rubrics in pink, one-line initials alternately of blue or burnished gold with flourishing of red or black, two-line initials of burnished gold with grounds and infills of pink and blue with white decoration, FIFTEEN LARGE ILLUMINATED INITIALS AND FULL-PAGE BORDERS (slight cropping of borders, occasional rubbing, smudging and offsetting). 19th-century russia gilt (worn, boards detached). Provenance: Cornelius J. Hauck (bookplate).
CONTENT:
Calendar ff.1-12v; Short Hours of the Cross ff.13-19v; Short Hours of the Holy Spirit ff.20-25; Mass of the Virgin ff.26-32; Office of the Virgin, use of Rome ff.33-101: matins f.33, lauds f.52, prime f.63, terce f.68, sext f.72, none f.76, vespers f.80, compline f.88, variants for Advent f.94; Prayer to the Virgin, Obsecro te ff.102-105v; Seven Penitential Psalms ff.106-125; Office of the Dead ff.126-169; prayer added in a 15th-century hand on f.169v.
Although modest in size and produced without miniatures this is a carefully and extensively decorated Book of Hours showing all the stylistic characteristics associable with products of the book trade in Bruges in the 1460s.
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