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- Record Id:
- 032-001962415
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001962415
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000055.0x000124
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 62106
- Title:
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A leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hungerford Hours')
- Scope & Content:
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Content:
A single leaf from the hour of None in the Hours of the Virgin from the Hungerford Hours. The text is preceded by a prayer in French (imperfect), ending: 'a seynte eglise bone pes et unite et a nous peccheours ta gloire benure, qui estes dieus et regnez pardurablement. Amen.'
The British Library holds additional leaves from the original Book of Hours: Additional MS 61887 (six folios from the Calendar) and Additional MS 72707 (a single leaf from the Litany).
More recent sales catalogues featuring leaves from the manuscript include: Sotheby’s Catalogue of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, 7 December 1992, lot 8 (five leaves), and 5 December 1994, lot 5 (see Zeileis, Piu ridon le carte: Buchmalerei aus Mittelalter und Renaissance (2004), no. 144); Maggs, European Bulletin, 19 (1994), no. 48; Reiss & Sohn, Königstein im Taunus, 27 October 2009, lots 834 and 835; and Quaritch Catalogue 1396: Medieval Manuscripts (2010), no. 12 (Stanford, Stanford University Library M1769). In addition, there is a leaf held by the Lilly Library, Indiana University (see de Hamel, Gilding the Lilly (2010), no. 44).
Decoration:
A historiated initial 'D'(eus) of the Resurrection of Christ, depicting Christ with stigmata holding a cross and an angel in colours and gold, with full border in colours and gold. Foliate initial 'M'(emento) in colours and additional smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing.
M. A. Michael identifies the artist of the Resurrection with the artist of the Schloss Herdringen Psalter (Schloss Herdringen, Fürstenburgische Bibliothek MS 8), see 'Destruction, Reconstruction and Invention' (1990).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001962415
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001962415
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Parchment leaf
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_62106 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1325
- End Date:
- 1335
- Date Range:
- c 1330
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 165 x 100 mm (text space: 125 x 75 mm) in a single column of 17 lines.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: loose parchment leaf mounted in a board.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, E. (?Lincoln or Ely).
Provenance:
The diocese of Lincoln or Ely: entries in the Calendar (Additional MS 61887) for St Guthlac on 11 April, marked 'festive in holandia' (Holland near Croyland, in the Lincoln diocese) (f. 2v) and Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln (b. 1135, d. 1200) (f. 6r).
?Sir John Pattishall (b. c. 1293, d. 1349): the Pattishall (?) coat of arms and a miniature with kneeling figures identified as the early owners on 2 leaves from the same manuscript now held in a private collection (see Michael, 'Destruction, Reconstruction and Invention' (1990), p. 39 plate 5, and p. 101 n. 10).
?Alice Pattishall (b. c. 1330, d. 1398), wife of Sir Thomas Wake of Blisworth (b. c. 1319, d. 1383): perhaps inherited from her father, Sir John Pattishall.
?Sir Philip Courtenay (b. c. 1400, d. 1463), great-grandson of Alice Pattishall and Sir Thomas Wake: perhaps inherited by him, and his wife Elizabeth Hungerford (b. c. 1400, d. 1476), sister of Robert Hungerford (b. c. 1400, d. 1459).
Robert Hungerford, 2nd Baron Hungerford (b. c. 1400, d. 1459) and his wife Margaret Botreaux (d. 1478): obits added to the Calendar in the 15th century (Additional MS 61887, ff. 1v, 3r).
?Charles Richard Montague Ede (b. 1921, d. 2002), publisher, dealer in art and antiquities, and founder of Folio Fine Art: see Michael, 'Destruction, Reconstruction and Invention' (1990), p. 107 n. 75.
Folio Fine Art Ltd, London, booksellers: its catalogue no. 72, May 1970, no. 251; a former tag with the words: ‘Folio Fine Art, Stock no. 4355, price £180’ (see Michael, 'Destruction, Reconstruction and Invention' (1990), p. 107 n. 75).
The Hon. Christopher Alan Lennox-Boyd (b. 1941, d. 2012), collector: his sale, Christie’s, London, 9 December 1981, lot 230; purchased by the British Library.
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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Janet Backhouse, ‘An English Calendar circa 1330’, in Fine Books and Book Collecting, ed. by Christopher de Hamel and Richard A. Linenthal (Leamington Spa: James Hall, 1981), pp. 8-10.
M. A. Michael, ‘Destruction, Reconstruction and Invention: The Hungerford Hours and English Manuscript Illumination of the Early Fourteenth Century’, in English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, Volume 2, ed. by P. Beal and J. Griffiths (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990), pp. 33-108.
The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, New Series 1981-1985, 2 vols (London: The British Library, 1995), I, p. 45.
Christopher de Hamel, Gilding the Lilly: A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library (Bloomington, IN: Lilly Library 2010), p. 97.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)