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Add MS 28962
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- 032-002020394
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- 032-002020394
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000034.0x000073
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Psalter and Hours, Dominican use (the 'Prayerbook of Alphonso V of Aragon')
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The manuscript includes:
ff. 3r-14v: Calendar with Dominican saints: St Thomas Aquinas, St Peter Martyr, St Dominic and the Translation of St Dominic.
ff. 15r: Prayers including: morning prayers (ff. 15r-19r); a prayer to the Angel Custodian 'Angele dei cui dispensatione' (ff. 19r-20r); evening prayers (ff. 20r-24r); a prayer attributed to St Anselm, 'Domine Deus meus' (ff. 24r-25r); the Last Seven Words of Christ (ff. 25r-26v); a prayer attributed of St Anselm, 'Dulcissime domine' (ff. 26v-27v); a prayer of St Thomas Aquinas, 'Creator ineffabilis' (ff. 27v-28r); a prayer 'pro periculis evitandis', 'Deus propicius' (ff. 28r-29r); a prayer before confession (ff. 29r-30v); a prayer attributed to St Gregory, 'Si ante oculos' (ff. 30v-31v).
ff. 32r-35v: Excerpts from the Gospels; wanting that of St. John.
ff. 36r-37v: Prayer of St Thomas Aquinas, incipit: 'Concede michi misericors deus que tibi placita sunt.'
ff. 38r-44r: Prayers: rubric: 'Psalmus compilatus ex soliloquiis David ad consolationem domini regis', incipit: 'Quam magnus es tu' (ff. 38r-39r); rubric: 'Oracio pro sapientia a deo postulanda ad directionem et consolationem regis', incipit: 'Deus patrum nostrorum' (ff. 39r-40v); rubric: 'Pro directione in actu iustitie', incipit: 'In te domine speravi' (ff. 40v-42v); rubric: 'Sequitus antifone de adventu domini' (ff. 42v-44r).
ff. 44v-48r: Prayer to the Holy Cross, rubric: 'Devota salutatio ad crucifixum', incipit: 'Ave caput inclinatus'.
ff. 48r-67r: Suffrages, rubric: 'Commemorationes Sanctorum in vesperis'.
ff. 67v-80v: Miserere' with prayers with the following rubrics: 'Pro gracia sancti spiritus impetranda' (ff. 68v-69r); 'Preces pro preservatione a populari insultu' (ff. 69r-69v); 'Preces pro liberatione ab hostium incursu' (f. 69v); 'Pro felici statu regis prospere conservando' (ff. 69v-70v); 'Pro copioso fructu ventris misericorditer impetrando' (ff. 70v-71r); 'Preces pro sanitate recuperanda' (f. 71r); 'Preces pro castitate conservanda' (f. 71v); 'Preces pro iter agentibus' (ff. 71v-72r); 'Preces pro navigantibus' (ff. 72r-73r); 'Preces pro graciarum actionibus de munere prosperitatis percepto' (f. 73r); 'Preces pro graciarum actionibus de portu seu termino vie adepto' (ff. 73r-73v); 'Preces pro pluvia optinenda' (ff. 73v-74r); 'Preces pro serenitate aerum consequenda' (ff. 74r-74v); 'Preces pro adepiscenda fertilitate victualium' (ff. 74v-75r); 'Preces pro confutanda superbia hostium' (ff. 75r-75v); 'Preces pro petitionibus exaudiendis' (f. 75v); 'Preces pro temptationibus demonum evadendis' (ff. 75v-76r); 'Preces pro pace obtinenda' (ff. 76r-76v); 'Preces pro peste fuganda' (ff. 76v-77r); 'Preces pro intrantibus bellum contra christianos' (ff. 77r-77v); 'Preces pro intrandum bellum contra paganos' (ff. 78r-78v); 'Preces pro graciarum actionibus de triumpho victorie' (ff. 78v-79r); 'Preces pro graciarum actionibus de munere sanitatis adepte' (ff. 79r-79v); 'Preces pro directione in actu iusticie' (ff. 79v-80r); 'Preces pro obtentu sapiencie' (ff. 80r-80v); 'Preces pro afflictis et tribulatis' (f. 80v).
ff. 81v-262vr: Psalms, rubric: 'Liber soliloquiorum sive psalmorum David'; in divisions for matins and vespers, for all the days of the week; with Canticles (ff. 239r-256v) and Litany (ff. 256v-262v).
ff. 263v-301v: Hours of the Virgin, rubric: 'Officium beate Marie virginis secundum consuetudinem ordinis fratrum predicatorum'; including a Mass to the Virgin inserted after Prime (ff. 280v-286r).
ff. 302r-328v: Prayers to the Virgin and Christ, including 'Ave maris stella' (ff. 302v-306v); a prayer attributed to St Augustine, 'O Beata Maria qui tibi digne' (ff. 306v-309v)'; a prayer to Christ, 'Ihesu Christe summe deus' (ff. 309v-311v); a prayer to Christ, 'Pie et exaudibilis domine' (ff. 312r-313r); the Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary (ff. 313r-315r); prayers to the Virgin: 'Serenissima et inclita mater' (ff. 315r-315v); a prayer of St Bernard, 'Felix femina' (ff. 315v-316v); 'Deprecor te domina' (ff. 316v-317r); 'Obsecro te' (ff. 317r-320r); 'O intemerata' (ff. 320r-322r); 'Stabat mater' (ff. 322r-323r); 'Ave dei genitrix' (ff. 323r-324v); 'Ave lux fidelium' (ff. 324v-325v); 'Ave mundi spes' (ff. 325v-328v).
ff. 329r: Gradual Psalms.
ff. 336v-343r: The Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, 'Septem gaudia beate virginis Marie'.
ff. 343v-344r: A description of the vision of St Thomas Becket relating to the Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, incipit: 'Legitur quod beatus Thomas martir.'
ff. 344v: The Seven Spiritual Joys of Mary according to St Thomas Becket, 'Septem gaudia spiritualia beate virginis'.
ff. 346v-361r: The Seven Penitential Psalms, 'Septem psalmi penitentiales', with Litany (ff. 354v-361r).
ff. 361v-378r: Hours of the Passion, 'Officium passions domini noetris Ihesu Christi'; with suffrages to the Virgin and saints after Compline.
ff. 378v-407r: Office of the Dead, 'Officium defunctorum'.
ff. 407v-411v: Hours of the Holy Spirit, 'Officium de Sancto Spiritu'.
ff. 411v: Prayers, including: a prayer attributed to St Augustine, 'Oro te rex seculorum' (ff. 411v-413v); 'Iuste iudex ihesu christe' (ff. 413v-414v); a prayer with indulgences granted by Pope Benedict XII, 'Precor te piissime domine' (ff. 414v-415v); payer with indulgences granted by Pope Boniface VIII (?), 'Deus qui voluisti' (ff. 415v-416r); a prayer with indulgences granted by Pope Boniface VI to be said between the elevations, 'Domine ihesu christe qui hanc sacratissimam carnem' (ff. 416r-416v); a prayer of Thomas Aquinas for the elevation of the host, 'Adoro te devote latens' (ff. 416v-417r); a prayer of Thomas Aquinas for the elevation of the blood, 'Pie pelicane', with other prayers for the elevation and communion: 'Ave vivens hostia', 'Ave vas clemencie', 'Ave verus corpus', 'Ave caro christi', 'Ave domine ihesu christe verbum patris' (ff. 417r-418v); a prayer of Thomas Aquinas for communion, 'Puro corde' (ff. 418v-419v); a prayer for communion, 'Anima christi' (f. 419v); a prayer attributed to St Augustine for communion, 'Panis dulcissime' (ff. 419v-420v); a prayer attributed to St Bernard, 'Ihesu decus angelicum' (ff. 420v-421v); a prayer to be said during 'Benedictus', 'Dulcissime domine' (ff. 421v-424r); prayers after communion, 'Gracias tibi ago', 'Ecce ihesu benignissime', 'Domine ihesu christe corpus tuum' (ff. 424r-426r); 'Gaudia beate Marie Magdalene' (ff. 426r-427r); a prayer to the Trinity, 'Gloria laus et honor' (ff. 427r-427v).
ff. 1r-2v: Notes in French describing the manuscript (19th century).
Decoration:
3 full page miniatures in colours and gold at the beginning of the prayers, and of the Psalms and Hours (ff. 14v, 81v, 263v). 37 large miniatures in colours and gold with full borders (ff. 32r, 33v, 34v, 35v, 36r, 38r, 44v, 67v, 78r, 122r, 136v, 151r, 184v, 203r, 264r, 281v, 302r, 312r, 329r, 336v, 337v, 338v, 339v, 340v, 341v, 342v, 344v, 346v, 361v, 363v, 366v, 368v, 370v, 372v, 378v, 383v, 407v). 18 historiated initials in colours and gold, some with full borders including animals and putti (ff. 15r, 67v, 82, 100v, 107r, 122r, 136v, 151r, 184v, 203r, 281v, 329r, 337v, 344v, 346v, 378v, 383v, 407v). 'Champ' initials in colours and gold.
The subjects of the miniatures and historiated initials are:
f. 14v: King Alfonso V (identified by his arms) at prayer in his bed chamber with Bishop Juan de Casanova holding a prayerbook in front of him.
f. 15r: Initial 'I'(am) of a Dominican holding a book.
f. 32r: St Matthew writing his Gospel (Excerpt from Matthew).
f. 33v: St Mark writing his Gospel (Excerpt from Mark).
f. 34v: St Luke writing his Gospel (Excerpt from Luke).
f. 35v: St John writing his Gospel (Excerpt from John [excised]).
f. 36r: St Thomas Aquinas (Prayer of St Thomas Aquinas).
f. 38r: King Alfonso V at prayer.
f. 44v: King Alfonso V, supported by an Angel, praying in front of the Crucifixion (Prayer to the Holy Cross).
f. 67v: St Francis and St Dominic, with a view of Gaeta at their feet, praying to Christ with the Virgin and St John the Baptist ('Miserere').
f. 67v: King Alfonso V, supported, by an Angel praying ('Miserere').
f. 78r: King Alfonso V leading his army against the Saracens (Prayer for the beginning of a war with pagans).
f. 81v: David and Goliath (Psalm 1).
f. 82r: Initial 'B'(eatus) of David (Psalm 1).
f. 100v: Initial 'D'(eus) of the Crucifixion (Psalm 62).
f. 106v: King Alfonso V as David at prayer (identified by a cloth in his livery colours covering his pulpit) (Psalm 26).
f. 107r: Initial 'D'(ominus) of David (Psalm 26).
f. 122r: A man with a walking stick (David?) pointing at his mouth and addressing God (Psalm 38).
f. 122r: Initial 'D'(ixi) of David (Psalm 38).
f. 136v: A fool riding a goat and holding a stick (or a spit) skewering a chicken (Psalm 52).
f. 136v: Initial 'D'(ixit) of David (Psalm 52).
f. 151r: David in waters addressing God (Psalm 68).
f. 151r: Initial 'S'(alvum) of David (Psalm 68).
f. 184v: Clerics singing (Psalm 97).
f. 184v: Initial 'C'(antate) of David (Psalm 97).
f. 203r: The Trinity (Psalm 109).
f. 203r: Initial 'D'(ixit) of David (Psalm 109).
f. 263v: A chapel with an office being celebrated in front of an altarpiece of three Dominican saints (Hours of the Virgin).
f. 264r: The Presentation in the Temple (Matins).
f. 281v: King Alfonso V (identified by a screen bearing his livery colours behind him), his family and court attending a mass (Mass to the Virgin).
f. 281v: Initial 'S'(alve) of two musicians (Mass to the Virgin).
f. 302r: King Alfonso praying to the Virgin (Prayers to the Virgin).
f. 312r: King Alfonso praying to Christ and saints (Prayer to Christ).
f. 329r: The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (Gradual Psalms).
f. 329r: Initial 'A'(d dominum) of the Virgin reading (Gradual Psalms).
f. 336v: The Annunciation (The Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, the First Joy).
f. 337v: The Nativity (The Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, the Second Joy).
f. 338v: The Adoration of the Magi (The Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, the Third Joy).
f. 339v: The Resurrection (The Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, the Fourth Joy).
f. 339v: Initial 'Q'(uartum) of the Three Holy Woman (The Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, the Fourth Joy).
f. 340v: The Ascension (The Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, the Fifth Joy).
f. 341v: Pentecost (The Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, the Sixth Joy).
f. 342v: The Dormition (The Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, the Seventh Joy).
f. 344v: St Thomas Becket praying to the Virgin (The Seven Spiritual Joys of the Virgin Mary).
f. 244v: Initial 'G'(aude) of a young king at prayer (The Seven Spiritual Joys of the Virgin Mary).
f. 346v: David, supported by two angels, praying to God (The Seven Penitential Psalms).
f. 346v: Initial 'D'(omine) of David playing the psalterion (The Seven Penitential Psalms).
f. 361v: The Betrayal of Christ (Hours of the Passion, Matins).
f. 363v: The Mocking of Christ (Hours of the Passion, Prime).
f. 366v: Christ being nailed to the Cross (Hours of the Passion, Sext).
f. 368v: The Crucifixion (Hours of the Passion, None).
f. 370v: The Deposition from the Cross (Hours of the Passion, Vespers).
f. 372v: The Lamentation (Hours of the Passion, Compline).
f. 378v: Death riding a bull chasing a group of people including a pope and a king (Office of the Dead, Vespers).
f. 378v: Initial 'D'(ilexi) of a priest praying over a coffin (Office of the Dead, Vespers).
f. 383v: The Obsequies of King Ferdinand I of Aragon (Office of the Dead, Matins).
f. 383v: Initial 'V'(erba) of a priest reading at a pulpit (Office of the Dead, Matins).
f. 407v: The Baptism of Christ (Hours of the Holy Spirit).
f. 407v: Initial 'D'(omine) of a king praying.
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Parchment codex
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- Languages:
- Latin
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- Start Date:
- 1436
- End Date:
- 1443
- Date Range:
- 1436-1443
- Era:
- CE
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 225 x 155 mm (text space: 140 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 427 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves and 4 parchment at the beginning and 3 modern paper and 4 parchment flyleaves at the end; ff. 1-2 are modern paper leaves inserted between unfoliated parchment leaves at the beginning, after f. [iv]]).
Collation: i10-1 (ff. 3-11; 1 leaf cancelled at the beginning); ii-iii10 (ff. 12-31); iv10-1 (ff. 32-41; 1 leaf excised after f. 35); v-vii10 (ff. 42-70); viii10+1 (ff. 71-81; f. 81 is a singleton); ix10-1 (ff. 82-90; 1 leaf cancelled at the beginning); x-xvi10 (ff. 91-160); xvii8 (ff. 161-168); xviii-xxxvi10 (ff. 161-358); xxxvii10-1 (ff. 359-367; 1 leaf excised after f. 364); xxxviii-xliii10 (ff. 368-427).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding; rebound in 1933. Gilt fore edges. Former covers kept separately.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Spain (Valencia).
Provenance:
Juan (or Joan) de Casanova (b. 1387, d. 1436), Dominican, Bishop of Bosa (Sardinia) and Elne, Cardinal from 1431, confessor of Alfonso V, King of Aragon, commissioned by him in 1436 for Alfonso V, at the workshop of Domingo Crespí, Valencia; the unfinished book was recovered from Crespí by Joan Mercader, Baile General de Valencia, on 19 October 1437 upon a payment of 62 Florins, as registered in the Mestre Racional, the royal accounts of the Crown of Aragon (Archivo del Reino de Valencia, no 45, f. 684).
Leonardo Crespí (fl. 1324-1359), illuminator, son of Domingo Crespí: contracted on 6 June 1439 to finish the Book of Hours for Alfonso V (Archivo del Reino de Valencia, Bailia, Libro 45, f. 798v) and received payments for the contracted work on 30 October 1439 (Archivo del Reino de Valencia, Mestre Racional, no. 54, f. 311v), 27 January 1442, 20 March 1442 and 9 November (Archivo del Reino de Valencia, Bailia, Libro 46, ff. 128, 141, 201); on 9 November 1442 Crespi promised to finish the work by 25 December (Archivo del Reino de Valencia, Protocolo Desconocido, no. 11250, f. 4v) and on 16 April 1443 received a payment for gilding the edges of the book (Archivo del Reino de Valencia, Mestre Racional, no. 58, f. 18v; for relevant excerpts of these accounts see Ramón Marqués, La illuminación, 2007, Appendix 7, nos. 272, 297, 299, 325, 327, 330, 331, 332, 338); the date 1442 is inscribed on the wall of a chapel depicted in a miniature (f. 263v).
Alfonso V (b. 1396, d. 1458), King of Aragon and Naples: his arms (ff. 14v, 312r, etc.); his portrait on horseback (f. 78v) and at prayer (ff. 14v, 44v, 67v, 106v, 281v, 302r, 312r); a view of Gaeta, prefixed to the Miserere (f. 67v), perhaps in reference to Alfonso's defeat there in 1435; a portrait of Ferdinand I, King of Aragon, Alfonso's father, with the inscription 'Rex Ferdinandum' (f. 383v); to be identified with the Book of Hours and Psalter 'hun libre molt bell en lo qual eran les hores de Nostra Dona e d'altres sants e lo saltiri' shipped for Alfonso to Italy in May 1447 (see Ramón Marqués, La illuminación, 2007, p. 98).
Added prayer 'O crux venerabilis', 17th century (f. 362r).
Note concerning the manuscript's connection to Alfonso V, in French, first half of the 19th century? (ff. 1r-2v).
Sir John Charles Robinson (b. 1824, d. 1913), museum curator and art collector, purchased from him, inscribed 'purchased of J. C. Robinson, 27 April 1872', f.[v] recto).
- Administrative Context:
- Spain (Valencia).
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years MDCCCLIV-MDCCCLXXV (London: Longmans and Co., 1877), p. 579.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London, 1911), p. 302.
R. D'Alos, 'Documenti por la storia della Biblioteca d'Alfonso il Magnánimo' in Miscellanea Francesco Ehrle, 5 vols (Rome: Biblioteca apostolica Vaticana, 1924), V, pp. 390-422 (pp. 418-19).
[Eric G. Millar], British Museum Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 4 (London: British Museum, 1928), pl. XXXVII.
Tammaro De Marinis, La biblioteca napolitana dei Re d’Aragona, 4 vols (Milan, 1947) II, pp. 136-37.
Amparo Villalba Dávalos, La miniatura Valenciana en los siglos XIV-XV, ed. Alfonso el Magnánimo (Valencia: Institución Alfonso el Magnánimo, 1964).
Pedro Bohigas, La Ilustración y la Decoratión del Libro Manuscrito en Cataluña: Período Gótico y Renacimiento, 2 vols (Barcelona: Asociación de Bibliófilos de Barcelona, 1965-1967), II, pp. 34-39, fig. 152.
Lynn White, 'Indic Elements in the Iconography of Petrarch's Trionfo della morte', Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, 49 (1974), 201-21 (p. 215, fig. 14).
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London, 1979), I, no. 328.
François Avril and others, Manuscrits enluminés de la péninsule ibérique (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1982), pp. 120, 123-24.
Janet Backhouse, Books of Hours (London: British Library, 1985), pp. 8-9, fig. 5.
Francesca Espanol, 'El Salterio y Libro de Horas de Alfonso el Magnanimo y el cardenal Joan de Casanova: British Library, Ms. Add. 28962', in La miniatura medieval en la Penísula Ibérica, ed. by Joaquín Yarza (Murcia: Nausícaä, 2007), pp. 551-612.
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), pls 87-88.
Nuria Ramón Marques, La iluminación de manoscritos en la Valencia gótica (1290-1458) (Valencia: Conselleria de Cultura, Educació i Esport, 2007), pp. 36, 98-108.
Josefina Planas Badenas, 'Valence, Naples et les routes artistiques de la Méditerranée: le Psautier-Livre d’Heures d’Alphonse le Magnanime', Cahier du Léopard d’Or, 17 (Des heures pour prier) (Paris: Léopard d’Or, 2014), 65-102.
Josefina Planas Badenas, 'El Salterio-Libro de Horas del rey Alfonso de Aragón: Algunas reflexiones sobre su organización textual y el programa iconográfico que lo ilustra', in Mercados de Lujo, Mercados del Arte: El gusto de las élites mediterráneas en los siglos XIV y XV, ed. Sophie Brouquet amd (València: Universitat de València, 2015), 211-237.
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