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Stowe MS 17
- Record Id:
- 040-001952794
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000493.0x000227
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165173879.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 17
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Maastricht ('The Maastricht Hours')
- Scope & Content:
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Book of Hours, Use of Maastricht ('The Maastricht Hours').
1. (ff. 2v-13r): Calendar, in French. Incipit (f. 2v): 'KL Ienvirs at xxxi iors / li circoncicio notre saingnur'.
2. (ff. 18r-139r): Office of the Virgin. Incipit (f. 18r): 'Domine labia mea aperies'.
3. (ff. 140r-157r): Penitential Psalms. Incipit (f. 140r): 'Domine ne in infurore' (sic).
4. (ff. 158r-172v): Gradual Psalms. Incipit (f. 158r): 'Ad dominum dum tribularer clamavj et exaudivit me'.
5. (ff. 172v-187r): Litany. Incipit (f. 172v): 'Kyrieleyson. Christe audi nos'.
6. (ff. 188r-254r): Office of the Dead. Incipit (f. 188r): 'Placebo. Psalmus. Dilexi quoniam exaudi'.
7. (ff. 256r-273r): Prayers in French. Incipit (f. 256r): 'Ave ki ains ne commenchas'.
Decoration:
24 architectural, historiated borders for the calendar, in colours and gold (ff. 2v-13r). 16 full-page miniatures, usually with roundels in the corners, in colours and gold (ff. 13v, 14v, 15v, 16v, 17v, 52v, 71v, 88v, 98v, 107v, 116v, 130v, 139v, 157v, 187v, 255v). 11 large historiated initials, accompanied by partial architectural, historiated borders, in colours and gold (ff. 18r, 53r, 72r, 89r, 99r, 108r, 117r, 131r, 140r, 188r, 256r). Numerous smaller inhabited initials, in colours and gold. All pages with partial borders and/or figural, grotesque or biblical decoration. Small initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing.
Miniatures and large historiated initials:
f. 13v: Miniature of two female saints (St Catherine and St Agnes), with male figures holding scrolls in the roundels;
f. 14v: Miniature of two female saints, with angels and haloed musicians all holding instruments in the roundels;
f. 15v: Miniature of the Nativity, with haloed musicians holding instruments in the roundels;
f. 16v: Miniature of the Annunciation to the Shepherds: two shepherds look at an angel holding a scroll in the upper left roundel, with male figures holding scrolls in the other three roundels;
f. 17v: Miniature of the three Magi, with angels holding musical instruments in the roundels;
f. 18r: Historiated initial 'D'(omine) of the Madonna and child;
f. 52v: Miniature of the Arrest of Christ;
f. 53r: Historiated initial 'D'(eus) of Christ, blindfolded and being mocked;
f. 71v: Miniature of Christ before Annas and Caiaphas, with haloed male figures holding scrolls in the roundels;
f. 72r: Historiated initial 'D'(eus) of Pilate washing his hands;
f. 88v: Miniature of Christ being flogged, with male figures holding scrolls in the roundels;
f. 89r: Historiated initial 'D'(eus) of Christ being stripped and mocked;
f. 98v: Miniature of Christ carrying the cross, with male figures in the roundels, some holding scrolls;
f. 99r: Historiated initial 'D'(eus) of Christ being stripped;
f. 107v: Miniature of the Crucifixion, with the four symbols of the Evangelists in the roundels;
f. 108r: Historiated initial 'D'(eus) of two men with a ladder (the Deposition?);
f. 116v: Miniature of the Deposition, with the four symbols of the Evangelists in the roundels;
f. 117r: Historiated initial 'D'(eus) of Christ's wounds being washed;
f. 130v: Miniature of Christ leaving the tomb, with male figures holding scrolls in the roundels;
f. 131r: Historiated initial 'C'(onverte) of the three Marys finding the tomb empty;
f. 139v: Miniature of 'Noli me tangere' (the resurrected Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene), with male figures in the roundels, some holding scrolls;
f. 140r: Historiated initial 'D'(omine) of a woman receiving a blessing;
f. 157v: Miniature of a woman in prayer before a crucifix, with angels holding musical instruments in the roundels;
f. 187v: Miniature of the Harrowing of Hell, with male figures holding scrolls in the roundels;
f. 188r: Historiated initial 'D'(ilexi) of the Bosom of Abraham;
f. 255v: Miniature of scenes from the story of Theophilus (Theophilus making a pact with the devil)
f. 256r: Historiated initial 'A'(ve) of a man in prayer.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001952786
040-001952794 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 10-30 : CLASS II.LITURGICAL BOOKS.
Stowe MS 17 : Book of Hours, Use of Maastricht ('The Maastricht Hours') - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0002]/036-001952786[0008]/040-001952794
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165173879.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1324
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 95 x 70 mm (text space: 50 x 30 mm).
Foliation: ff. 273 (+ 12 modern paper flyleaves: 6 at the beginning and 6 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding of blind-tooled blue leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Liège, Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium).
Provenance:
Probably made for an aristocratic woman, who may be represented kneeling, wearing a vair-lined cloak, at several places in the manuscript (ff. 18r, 130v, 140r, 157v, 256r).
Traces of pilgrim badges (f. 1r).
Inscribed, 15th century: 'Ad. fr. Albertus(?)' (f. 7r).
Erased inscription, 15th-century(?) (f. 16r).
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham: inscribed with the press-mark 'Press 3 no. 13' (f. 1r), corresponding to his catalogue (O'Conor 1818-1819).
Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos; sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883.
- Information About Copies:
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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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Charles O'Conor, Bibliotheca Ms. Stowensis: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Stowe Library, 2 vols (Buckingham: Seeley, 1818-1819), II, p. 10 (no. 13).
Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895-1896), I, pp. 12-13 (no. 17).
[George Warner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series I, (London: British Museum, 1907), pl. 35.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), p. 205, pl. xxxviii.
[J. A. Herbert], British Museum: Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 1, 3rd edn (London: British Museum, 1923), pl. 35.
[J. A. Herbert], Illuminated Manuscripts and Bindings of Manuscripts Exhibited in The Grenville Library, Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts, 3 (Oxford: British Museum, 1923), no. 73.
Joan Evans, English Art 1307-1461, Oxford History of English Art, 5 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1949), p. 9 n. 1.
Horst Woldemar Janson, Apes and Ape Lore in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (London: Warburg Institute, 1952), pp. 67 n. 104, 158 n. 5, 173, 188-94 n. 14, n. 25, n. 32, n. 49, n. 51, n. 60, n. 62, n. 67, 197 n. 98, n. 101, n. 135.
Margaret Rickert, Painting in Britain: the Middle Ages, 2nd edn (London: Penguin Books, 1965), pp. 145, 205.
Lilian M. C. Randall, Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966), p. 37, pls V.14-15, CVI.509, CXXXIV.638.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), pl. 38.
Brunsdon Yapp, Birds in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British LIbrary, 1981), p. 17.
Janet Backhouse, Books of Hours (London: British Library, 1985), fig. 40.
Judith H. Oliver, Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (c. 1250-c. 1330), Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts from the Low Countries, 2-3, 2 vols (Leuven: Uitgverij Peeters, 1988), I, pp. 28, 29 n. 1, 30, 30 n. 67, and passim; II, no. 23, pp. 212-13, 225-27, 229-38, and passim.
Michelle Brown, A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (London: The British Library, 1990), pl. 30.
Alison Stones, 'Indications écrites et modèles picturaux, guides aux peintres de manuscrits enluminés aux environs de 1300', in Artistes, artisans et production artistique au Moyen Age: Colloque international, ed. by. Xavier Barral i Altet, 3 vols (Paris: Picard, 1986-90), III: Fabrication et consommation de l'oeuvre, pp. 321-49 (p. 326).
Lilian M. C. Randall, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, 3 vols (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989-1997), III: Belgium,1250-1530, 2 parts, I, no. 220.
Michael Camille, Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art (London: Reaktion, 1992), pl. 53.
Pamela Porter, Medieval Warfare in Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2000), p. 51.
Nicolas Bell, Music in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2001), p. 57.
Mary Coker Joslin and Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson, The Egerton Genesis (London: British Library, 2001), pp. 173, 178, 229, 246.
Alixe Bovey, Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2002), p. 53, pl. 45.
Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold 800-1475 (Leuven: Brepols, 2002), no. 51 [exhibition catalogue].
Sophie Page, Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2002), pp. 37, 40, 59.
Justin Clegg, The Medieval Church in Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2003), p. 21 pl. 17.
Pamela Porter, Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 37, 40, 59.
Janet Backhouse, Illumination from Books of Hours (London: British Library, 2004), fig. 95.
Deirdre Jackson, 'The Influence of the Theophilus Legend: An Overlooked Miniature in Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria and its Wider Context', in Under the Influence: The Concept of Influence and the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts, ed. by John Lowden and Alixe Bovey (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 75-87 (p. 81, fig. 3).
Deirdre Jackson, Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2007), pl. 35.
Marianne Besseyre and Marie-Thérèse Gousset, L'Apocalypse 1313 (Barcelona: Molieiro, 2008), p. 37.
The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages, ed. by David Badke, [http://bestiary.ca/manuscripts/manulocshelf.htm] [accessed 14 August 2009].
Alison Stones, ~Gothic Manuscripts: 1260-1320~, 4 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 2014), II, p. 200.
- Exhibitions:
- The Middle Ages, (online), 26 March 2015-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)