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Add MS 89309
- Record Id:
- 032-003417216
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003417216
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100061381464.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165152998.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89309
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Paris (‘The Southwark Hours’)
- Scope & Content:
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A Book of Hours in Latin with some French, made in Paris for an unknown female patron. The illumination is attributed to the ‘Ravenelle Master’, active in Paris between c. 1390 and c. 1410. Ker dates it to ‘probably not long after 1387’ as it contains a memoria of Peter of Luxembourg (b. 1369, d. 1387), on f. 231r-v.
Contents:
ff. 1r-12v: Calendar.
ff. 13r-18r: Gospel lessons.
ff. 20r-92v: Hours of the Virgin, Use of Paris.
ff. 94r-113v: Penitential Psalms and Litany.
ff. 114r-163r: Office for the Dead.
ff. 164r-177v: Memoriae and prayers.
ff. 178r-219v: Hours of the Passion.
ff. 220r-232r: Prayers and memoriae of saints.
Decoration, attributed to the ‘Ravenelle Master’ (Sandgren, The Book of Hours of Johannete Ravenelle (2002), esp. pp. 54-60):
5 half-page semi-grisaille miniatures with colours and gold, framed by full ivy-leaf borders: the Annunciation with borders containing angels and prophets (f. 20r), Christ in Majesty with the Evangelist symbols (f. 94r), the Betrayal (f. 178r), the Deposition (f. 210v), the Entombment with a kneeling woman (f. 215v).
2 historiated initials: Moses and the Burning Bush (f. 20r), head of a woman (f. 94r).
Occasional marginal images: a lance-bearing knight on a winged horse (f. 22v), a reclining male figure (f. 24v), a dragon (ff. 75r, 87r, 87v, 137v).
Numerous initials and line fillers in red, blue, white and gold, often with foliate decoration.
Partial ivy-leaf borders throughout in gold, blue and red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003417216
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003417216
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165152998.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 185 x 125 mm (written space: 105 x 60 mm).
Foliation: ff. 232 (plus three unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Black leather with gold tooling and gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Paris, France.
Probably commissioned for a woman: depicted in an initial (f. 94) and in the Entombment miniature (f. 215v). The inclusion of a memoria of St Frambald (ff. 227v-228v), who was the focus of a local cult at Senlis, may link the patron with this area.
Unknown medieval owner, possibly the original patron (above) or a later one if added: coat of arms, of azure charged with four (?) etoiles of five rays (?), remains unidentified due to trimming and blurring (f. 215v).
‘Wilson’: inscribed in pencil ‘Wilson’s Sale 1812’ on f. [iii]. This sale cannot be identified in the British Library’s annotated copy of the Catalogue of English Book Sales 1676-1900; John Wilson's Sale-Catalogue; consisting chiefly of books in divinity, etc. (Edinburgh, 1792); or sales catalogues from between 1900 and 1920 that are listed in the Hand-list of Sales Catalogues.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark: its mid-19th century bookplate, printed ‘St. George’s Cathedral Library, Southwark, S.E.’, pasted to the inside upper cover.
Loaned to the British Library on 17 July 1984 (as Loan MS 85/4); acquired by the Library 12 March 2018 with the assistance of the Friends of the British Library and the Library’s Heritage Acquisition Group.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan MS 85/4
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at https://bl.uk/manuscripts/
- Publications:
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Neil Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969), I, pp. 323-24.
Pierre Rézeau, Répertoire d'incipit des prières françaises à la fin du moyen âge: Addenda et corrigenda aux répertoires de Sonet et Sinclair: Nouveaux incipit (Geneva: Dros, 1986), no. 2542.
Eva Lindqvist Sandgren, The Book of Hours of Johannete Ravenelle and the Parisian Book Illumination Around 1400, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Figura Nova Series, 28 (Uppsala: Uppsala University Library, 2002), pp. 49 [fig. 19], 54-60 [Table 1, figs. 32-33], 95-96 [figs 70, 72], 101, 143-144 [catalogue description].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)