Book of hours : use of Rome, [between 1500 and 1525].

Author
Catholic Church [Browse]
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • French
  • Latin
  • Dutch
Description
1 v. (128 leaves) : parchment, ill.

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    Compiled/​Created
    [between 1500 and 1525].
    Summary note
    Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome, written and illuminated in Ghent in the early 16th century. Folios 98r-128v have ruling only.
    Notes
    • Decoration: 10 full-page miniatures with full borders on versos for canonical hours (Prime missing) of the Hours of the Virgin (ff. 8v, 20v, 31v, 35v, 38v, 41v, 46v), Penitential Psalm 6 (f. 56v), Vespers Psalm of the Office of the Dead (f. 69v), and Matins of the Short Hours of the Cross (f. 94v). Borders of some miniatures and their facing text pages decorated with naturalistic flora, acanthus rinceaux in white or slate blue or rellow flecked with gold, different birds, snails, inscribed scrolls, skull, insects including dragon-fly and butterfly, and putti, on yellow and rose-pink grounds. In borders of miniatures and their facing text pages for Lauds, Sext, and Vespers of the Hours of the Virgin, there are architectural niches for vases of flowers, birds, putti, and human figures (ff. 20v, 21r, 35v, 36r, and 56v, 57r). Architectural niches and putti become common in borders by the early 16th century in Flemish illumination. Historiated borders for initials of the Sext of the Hours of the Virgin (f. 36) and Penitential Psalm 6 (f. 57r). 8-line historiated initial for Matins of Hours of the Virgin with full border (f. 9r). 6-line foliate or tree-like initials for Penitential Psalm 6 and Vespers Psalm of the Office of the Dead with full borders (ff. 57r, 70r). 5-line foliate or tree-like initials for canonical hours of the Hours of the Virgin except Matins (ff. 21r, 28r, 32r, 36r, 39r, 42r, 47r), and for Matins of the Short Hours of the Cross, all with full borders (f. 95r). 2- and 3-line gold foliate initials on blue or pink grounds for psalms, hymns, lessons, chapters, canticles, and collects in the Hours of the Virgin and Office of the Dead, and Penitential Psalms except Psalm 6. 2-line gold KL initials of Calendar on blue grounds on versos and pink grounds on rectos. 1-line gray initials on rose grounds enframed and flecked with gold for versals. Colors of royal blue, pale blue, red, pink, rose, green, yellow, and gray.
    • Layout: Parchment; single column of 20 lines, ruled 5 mm. apart ; 178 x 130 (105 x 69/70 for ff. i-v, viii, 1-128, and back pastedown) mm.; 170 x 120 mm. (ff. vi-vii).
    Binding note
    Brown calfskin over wooden boards; front and back covers stamped with four rectangular panels, each pair representing Christ of Sorrows, inscribed "Ecce Homo," with Instruments of the Passion, and Flagellation of Christ, surrounded by frame inscribed "Ob Lavdem XRI Librum Hvnc recte ligavi. Ioris de Gauere me ligauit in Gaudauo," and separated by frieze of foliage. Two clasps now gone. Ioris (George) de Gavere, early 16th-century binder in Ghent, named in inscription. In a brown morocco case with spine-title, "Hore XV. century vellum MS."
    Language note
    Latin and Dutch
    Script
    Textura.
    Provenance
    Petrus Innocentius van den Broucke: f. ii, his name and date, 1719, and "pruus"; f. 32, his name, van den Broucke, in top margin. Name scratched out in black ink, on front pastedown. Pencilled note of 10 miniatures and number, 5, on f. i, at top. Penciled note of "aeo." on bottom left of back pastedown. Beverly Chew (1850-1924), morocco book label with motto, "esto qvod esse videris," on front pastedown. His sale (New York, Anderson Galleries, 9 December 1924, lot no. 263, sold for $575, pencilled in Princeton copy); to E. D. North to Robert Garrett (1875-1961), Class of 1897, of Baltimore, Maryland, with his bookplate and deposit no. 7896.
    Source acquisition
    Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
    Publications about
    Green, p. 188 (no. 30 [f. 8v-9])
    References
    De Ricci, v. 1, p. 874 (no. 58)
    Cite as
    Garrett MS. 58, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
    Place name(s)
    Belgium Ghent.
    OCLC
    53859926
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