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Egerton MS 3044
- Record Id:
- 032-001985166
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001985166
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000057.0x000375
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 3044
- Title:
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A Book of Hours in roll form
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Hours of the Virgin and other prayers, as follows:
Recto or face:
Membranes 1-5 (plus a short fragment of membrane between 5 and 6: see image f. 5br): Hours of the Virgin, beginning imperfectly at the end of Matins (images: 1ar-5br);
Membrane 6: O intemerata (image: 6r);
Membranes 7-13: Penitential Psalms, followed by a litany, collects, etc. (images: 7ar-13ar). The litany includes Saints Augustine, Nicholas, and Richard consecutively among the martyrs, each with a double invocation;
Membranes 13-14: Prayers for the Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary with indulgences attributed to Pope Clement (images: 13ar-14r).
Verso or dorse:
Membranes 1-3: Prayers for remission of sins (images: 15av-17av);
Membrane 3: Hours of the Cross, verses linking the canonical hours to the events of the Passion (images: 17av-17bv);
Membrane 4: Two circular computistical diagrams (image: 18av)
Membranes 4-7: A calendar that includes Netherlandish saints, such as Hunfrid of Therouanne; the translation of Audomar of Therouanne (St Omer); the translation of Bertin (Tournai); Audomar of Therouanne in red; and Maximus (Ghent) in red (images: 18av-21av);
Membrane 7: Latin verses, followed by instructions in Flemish or Middle Dutch on using them to determine the month and date of Easter in a particular year by counting words and letters (images: 21av-21bv);
Membranes 7-14: Latin prayers to God, Christ and the Virgin Mary: includes the Prayer of Manasseh, the Mass of St Gregory (7 prayers) and prayers attributed elsewhere to Anselm, Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres and Saint Petrus Damiani, Cardinal-bishop of Ostia (images: 21bv-28v).
The image numbers refer to the digitised images in Digitised Manuscripts. The numbering sequence of the dorse or verso of the roll follows on from that of the face or recto, so that the images numbered f. 1ar and f. 15av are of the two sides of the first (outer) membrane. For most membranes there are two images for each side, labelled a and b, but for shorter membranes (f. 6r/20v and f. 14r/28v) there is only one image for each side. The digitial images overlap.
The text on membrane 6 of the face and membrane 3 of the dorse (images 6r and 17v) was perhaps added later, in c. 1390, by Johannes de Ecclesia, 'commorans in villa brugensi (Bruges)', the scribe of Chester Beatty Library, Western MS. 77 (see Catalogue of Additions,1959).
Decoration:
1 large miniature, in colours and gold (7ar). 8 large historiated initials with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold (1br, 2br, 3ar, 3br, 4ar, 4br, 5r, 7r). Circular diagrams in red and blue (18av). Initials in red with brown pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing, those on verso with human or zoomorphic heads. Small initials in red or blue. Line fillers decorated in red and blue or brown. 1 large puzzle-initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in purple and red; script in groups of 6 lines in alternating colours of gold, blue and red, ruled in red and blue, on the added membrane (6r).
The subjects of the images on the face are:
Membrane 1: The Visitation, at the beginning of Lauds;
Membrane 2: The Nativity, at the beginning of Prime;
Membrane 3: The Annunciation to the Shepherds, at the beginning of Terce; the Adoration of the Magi, at the beginning of Sext;
Membrane 4: The slaughter of the Innocents, at the beginning of None in the Hours of the Virgin; the Flight into Egypt, at the beginning of Vespers;
Membrane 5: The Presentation, at the beginning of Compline;
Membrane 7: The Crucifixion with a couple in prayer, perhaps the patrons; Christ showing his wounds, at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-001985166", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 3044: A Book of Hours in roll form" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001985166
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001985166
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment roll
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_3044 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Flemish
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1325
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 2nd to 4th quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 920 x 10,500 mm.
Foliation: 14 membranes, with a modern addition at the beginning (membranes are foliated 1-14 on the recto; for photography purposes the recto and verso of each folio is divided into two sections, a and b).
Script: Gothic on recto; Gothic cursive on verso.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Netherlands, S.
Provenance:
Contains Netherlandish saints in the calendar and text in Flemish or Middle Dutch (4v-7v)
Perhaps made for the Augustinian abbey of Notre Dame du Mont, Watten, formerly in Flanders: the abbey was originally dedicated to Saints Nicholas and Richarius, who are invoked in the Litany directly after Saint Augustine and a prayer refers to 'canonicos et fratres et sorores atque familiam nostrum' (see Catalogue of Additions (1959)).
Francis Seymour Powell (b. 1818, d. 1911), 1st Bart., Horton Old Hall, Bradford: his sale, Sotheby's, London, 20 December 1929, lot 741; bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at 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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Henry G. Bohn, A Catalogue of Books (London: [n. pub], 1841), no. 13548, p. 1137.
The British Museum Quarterly, 4 (1929-30), p. 111, pl. lxiii.
British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts,1926-1930 (London: British Museum, 1959), pp. 224-26.
Rossell Hope Robbins, 'The "Arma Christi" Rolls', Modern Language Review, 34 (1939), 415-21 (p. 416).
W.C.M. Wüstefeld, Middeleeuwse Boeken van het Catharijneconvent (Zwolle: Waanders, c. 1993), p. 220, n. 72.
[Erik Drigsdahl], 'The Hours of the Virgin: New Tests for Localization of the Hore Beate Marie Virginis, Introduction and Tutorial: Books of Hours', Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts - Books of Hours 1400-1530 (1997-2012: last update 27.01.2013), no. 253, online at http://manuscripts.org.uk/chd.dk/tutor/index.html [accessed 02 March 2017].
Hugo Van der Velden, 'A Prayer Roll of Henry Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick', in Tributes in Honor of James Marrow: Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages and Northern Renaissance, ed. by J.F. Hamburger and A.S. Korteweg (London: Harvey Miller, 2006), pp. 521-49 (p. 542 n. 72).
Don K. Skemer, Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages (Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2006), p. 274, n. 81.
Virginia Reinburg, French books of hours: making an archive of prayer, c. 1400-1600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), p. 246. - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)