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Add MS 32454
- Record Id:
- 032-002026303
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002026303
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000054.0x0002c0
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100173570834.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 32454
- Title:
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Book of Hours, Use of Rome
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r-v: Pen-trials and ownership inscriptions.
ff. 2r-7v: Calendar, Use of Paris, in French.
f. 8r-v: The first leaf of the Hours of the Cross, misplaced.
ff. 9r-12r: Gospel Readings.
ff. 12r-14v: 'Obsecro te'.
ff. 14v-16v: 'O intemerata'.
ff. 17r-58r: Hours of the Virgin (imperfect at the beginning due to 1 missing leaf).
ff. 59r-66r: Penitential Psalms.
ff. 66r-70v: Litany.
ff. 71r-73v: Hours of the Cross (the first leaf is misplaced at f. 8).
ff. 74r-76r: Hours of the Holy Spirit (imperfect at the beginning due to probably 3 missing leaves).
ff. 77r-102v: Office of the Dead (imperfect at the beginning due to probably 3 missing leaves).
ff. 103r-110r: Antiphons and prayers for special festivals.
ff. 111r -117v: Masses.
f. 118r-v: Pen-trials and ownership inscriptions.
Decoration:
The miniatures are attributed to artists known as the Pseudo-Jacquemart, Josephus, Egerton and Bedford Masters. Further miniatures are missing due to loss of leaves at the beginning of major texts.
9 large miniatures in colours and gold, with ivy and acanthus leaf borders with birds, insects and small figures: the Crucifixion, flanked by the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist (f. 8r); the Visitation (f. 22r); the Nativity (f. 29r); the Annunciation to the Shepherds (f. 32r); the Adoration of the Magi (f. 35r); the Presentation in the Temple (f. 38r); the Flight into Egypt (f. 41r); the Coronation of the Virgin with musician angels (f. 46r); King David kneeling in penitence (f. 59r).
6 small miniatures in colours and gold, with ivy and acanthus leaf borders: St John the Evangelist, with a devil stealing his inkwell (f. 9r); St Luke the Evangelist (f. 9v); St Matthew the Evangelist (f. 10v); St Mark the Evangelist (f. 11r); the Virgin and Child on a crescent moon, being crowned by angels (f. 12r); the Virgin and St John the Evangelist with the poisoned cup (f. 14v).
24 small calendar miniature of the labours of the months and the signs of the Zodiac (ff. 2r-7v).
Ivy leaf borders and partial bar borders, sometimes with dragons, in colours and gold on every text page. Numerous decorated initial letters and line fillers in colours and gold.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002026303", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 32454: Book of Hours, Use of Rome" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002026303
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002026303
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_32454 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1409
- End Date:
- 1416
- Date Range:
- c. 1410-c. 1415
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 255 x 180 mm (text space: 112 x 95 mm).
Foliation: ff. 118 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after ff. 1 and 58 + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end ); f. 82 is foliated as f. 83; ff. 1 and 118 are a former pastedowns; an added a purple silk bookmark before f. [i].
Catchwords.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Red leather, tooled in gold, with 'HEURES M SUR VÉLIN' tooled on the spine; purple endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Paris or Bourges, France.
Provenance:
Made for a member of the court of Jean de Berry, perhaps Jeanne de Boulogne (b. c.1378, d. c.1424), Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne and Duchess of Berry (see Villela-Petit, 'Un livre d’heures pour la duchesse?', (2023), pp. 4-61).
Anthoine Gastellier, Procureur au bailliage de Toucy, late ?16th century: his name inscribed, 'Antoine Gastellier' (f. 1r); inscribed, 'Je suis a M[onsieur] Antoine / Gastellier…' (f. 1r); 'A qui je suis on voit le nom / Et le surnom cy dessoubz mis / Partant je vous prie mes amis / Que nul de vous ne soit larron. Anthoine Gastellier' (f. 1r); 'Maistre Antoine Gastellier procureur au bailliage de Thoucy, qui me trouverant que a luy me rende. Gastellier' (f. 1v), 'Je suis a Maistre Antoine Gastellier procureur au bailliage de Thoucy, qui me trouveront a luy me rende et is payera Lezin' (f. 118r).
C. Lergault, Médécin, 1702: inscribed, 'Ce Livre apartient a Monsieur C. Lergault, Medecin, 1702' (f. 118r).
An unknown owner, 1790: inscribed, 'du 1r Janvier 1790 il ya dans le livre 118 fuillettes' (f. 2r); the same hand annotated and numbered each of the large miniatures in the manuscript (ff. 8r, 22r, 29r, 32r, 35r, 38r, 41r, 46r, 59r).
Convent of the Ursulines, Amiens, 1802: sold the manuscript to Owen Smythe Owen (see below).
Owen Smythe Owen, of Condover Park, Shropshire: inscribed, 'Owen Smythe Owen, June 26th Amiens 1802. This manuscript I purchased from the Convent of Ursulines at Amiens. O.S.O. Belongs to the Library at Condover Park Shropshire' (f. [i] verso), and 'Owen Smythe Owen Condover Park Shropshire bought at Amiens, 26 July 1802 from the Convent of Ursulines' (f. 1v).
Reginald Cholmondeley (b. 1826, d. 1896), of Condover Hall: his armorial bookplate (inside upper cover); purchased by the British Museum, 18 April 1885 for £350 (inscribed note, f. [ii] recto).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1882-1887 (London: British Museum, 1889), p. 122.
Eric G. Millar, Souvenir de l’exposition de manuscrits français à peintures organisée à la Grenville Library (British Museum) en janvier-mars 1932 (Paris: Société française de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures, 1933), pl. 50.
Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and their Contemporaries (London, 1974), I, p.325.
Janet Backhouse, Illuminations from Books of Hours (2004), no. 100.
Gregory T. Clark, Art in a Time of War: the Master of Morgan 453 and manuscript illumination in Paris during the English Occupation (1419-1435) (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2016), pp. 94, 96-98, 100, 261, 362 n39. Ills. 103, 106, 108, 110.
Inès Villela-Petit, 'Un livre d’heures pour la duchesse? Collaborations et rivalités à la cour de Jean de Berry', Art de l'enluminure, 85 (June/August 2023), pp. 4-61.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)