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Arundel MS 318
- Record Id:
- 040-002039601
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x0003ae
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 318
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
- Scope & Content:
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This Book of Hours was likely produced by a Flemish artist working for the English market in the late fifteenth century. It came into the possession of Anne Percy, Countess of Arundel (b. in or before 1485, d. 1552) at some point after 1510, when she married the Earl of Arundel (she wrote her married name on f. 153v).
Contents:
ff. 1r-6v: Calendar.
ff. 7r-13v: Prayer to Jesus Christ.
ff. 14r-33v: Suffrages to the Trinity, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Thomas, George, Christopher, Anne, Catherine, Barbara, Mary Magdalene, and Margaret.
ff. 35r-69v: The Hours of the Virgin, incorporating suffrages at Lauds with the Hours of the Cross intermixed.
ff. 69v-78v: Prayers to the Virgin.
ff. 79r-81v: The Seven Joys of the Virgin.
ff. 82r-84v: Prayers to the Image of Christ, Cross, and Wounds of Christ.
ff. 84v-85r: Prayer to St John the Evangelist.ff. 85r-88r: Bede's prayer in the Seven Last Words.
ff. 90r-103v: The Penitential Psalms, the Gradual Psalms and the Litany.
ff. 105r-123r: The Office of the Dead.
ff. 124r-134v: The Commendation of Souls.
ff. 135r-140:r The Psalms of the Passion of Christ.
ff. 141r-151r: St Jerome's Psalter.
Decoration:
21 full-page miniatures, on the verso of mostly inserted single leaves, accompanied by large decorated initials on the opposite page, both with full borders, in colours and gold (ff. 7v, 15v, 18v, 19v, 22v, 24v, 26v, 28v, 30v, 32v, 34v, 41v, 53v, 57v, 60v, 63v, 66v, 90v, 104v, 123v, 140v); 4 miniatures missing before ff. 14, 21, 64, 135. 20 small miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 48r, 48v, 49r, 49v (x 2), 50r, 50v, 70v, 74v, 76v, 79v, 82r (x 2), 82v (x 2), 83r, 83v (x 2), 84r (x 2); 1 excised on f. 135r. 1 large initial (4 lines tall) in gold on a blue and red ground, with foliate extensions into the margin (f. 85v). Numerous small initials (2 lines) in gold on blue and red grounds, with foliate extensions into the margins, throughout. Numerous small initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing throughout. 2 text leaves with the text for None in the Hours of the Virgin missing after f. 63r.
The subjects of the full-page miniatures are:
f. 7v: The Creation.
f. 15v: St John the Baptist with the Agnus Dei.
f. 17v: St John the Evangelist.
f. 19v: Martyrdom of St Thomas Becket.
f. 22v: St Christopher carrying the Christ child.
f. 24v: The Virgin and Child seated at St Anne’s feet.
f. 26v: St Catherine.
f. 28v: St Barbara.
f. 30v: St Mary Magdalene.
f. 32v: St Margaret and the dragon.
f. 34v: Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane.
f. 41v: The Betrayal.
f. 53v: Christ before Pontius Pilate.
f. 57v: The Flagellation.
f. 60v: Christ carrying the Cross.
f. 63v: The Crucifixion.
f. 66v: The Entombment.
ff. 82v-84r: The Wounds of Christ.
f. 89v: The Last Judgment.
f. 104v: Christ and St Lazarus (?).
f. 123v: Angels bringing three souls to heaven.
f. 140v: St Jerome and the lion.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039601 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 318 : Book of Hours, Use of Sarum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0319]/040-002039601
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1485
- End Date:
- 1495
- Date Range:
- c 1490
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 195 x 125 mm (text space 130 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 153 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Speckled calf; rebacked.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Netherlands, S. (Bruges)
Provenance:
Anne Percy, Countess of Arundel (b. in or before 1485, d. 1552), second wife of William Fitzalan (b. c. 1476, d. 1544), 11th earl of Arundel, 8th Baron Maltravers, magnate: owned after 1510 (her marriage to Fitzalan): a prayer in her hand, headed by the name of her sister Eleanor Percy Stafford (b. c. 1474, d. 1530), wife of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham (b. 1478, d. 1521): 'Oratio Alionore Percie ducissa Buckhammie', followed by the name 'Anne Arundell' (ff. 152r-152v), and inscribed 'Anne Mautreuers [Maltravers] ys the tru possessor of thys boke' (f. 153v).
Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 14th earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk: presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp ‘Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.’ (f. 1r); its bookplate with the pencil inscription ‘XIII.7.2’ (inside upper cover).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Administrative Context:
- Bruges
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part 1: The Arundel Manuscripts, pp. 92-93.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 16.
Nicholas Rogers, 'The Particular Judgement: Two Earlier Examples of a Motif in Jan Mostaert's Lost Self-Portrait', Oud Holland, 97 (1983), 125-27 (pp. 126-27, fig. 2).
C. M. Kauffmann, Biblical Imagery in Medieval England 700-1500 (London: Harvey Miller, 2003), p. 312 n. 74.
Janet Backhouse, Illumination from Books of Hours (London: British Library, 2004), col. pl. 46.
Sue Niebrzydowski, 'Marian Literature', The History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500: Volume One, ed. by Liz Herbert McAvoy and P.D. Watt (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012), 112-20 (pp. 117-18).
Andrea Denny-Brown and Lisa H. Cooper, The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture: With a Critical Edition of 'O Vernicle' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 278, 304. - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
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From the Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum (1834-1840), I, pp. 92-93:
'Membranaceus, in 4to, ff. 152, sec. xv., rnultis picturis adornatus, inter quas ad fol. 19 b. habetur cædes S. Thomæ a Becket; desunt folia nonnulla olim excisa.
1. Kalendarium. fol. 1.
2. "Quindecim Orationes." fol. 8.
3. "Commemoratio de Sancta Trinitate." fol. 14.
4. Commemoratio, nempe, Hymnus, versus et oratio, de Sanctis. fol. 16.
5. "Horæ Beatæ Mariæ Viginis secundum consuetudinem Angliæ cum officiis variis et suffragiis Sanctorum. fol. 35.
6. Laudes Virginis; rhythmice. fol. 70. b. Incip. "Salve Virgo virginum . stella matutina. Sordidorum criminuni . vera medicina." 7. Oratio de S. Maria et de S. Johanne Evangelista, etc. fol. 74. b.
8. Septem gaudia B. M. V., quæ quicunique semel in die-dixerit, 100 dies indulgentiarum obtinebit, a Clemente Papa composita. fol. 78. b. Incip. "Virgo, templum Trinitatis, Deus, summe bonitatis Et misericordie." 9. Orationes ad crucem et ad vulnera Christi, etc. fol. 82.
10. Oratio Venerabilis Bedae, de septem verbis Christi in cruce pendentis. fol. 85.
11. Oratio ad Christum; dicentibus hanc orationem Papa Bonifacius concessit 2000 annorum indulgentiarum ad supplicacionem Philippi, regis Franciae. fol. 88.
12. Septem Psalmi Poenitentiales, Litaniæ et Orationes. fol. 90.
13. Vigiliæ Defunctorum. fol. 105.
14. Commendationes animarum. fol. 124.
15. Psalmi de Passione. fol. 135.
16. Psalterium abbreviatum S. Hieronymi, "sicut Angelus Domini docuit eum per Spiritum Sanctum." fol. 139.
17. A Prayer, in rhyme, to the Virgin, by Eleanor Percy, Duchess of Buckingham. fol. 152. The preceding article has been added by a later hand, seemingly that of "Anne Aruntielle" [Anne, Countess of Arunde], daughter of Thomas, Lord Daere, of Gilsland?]
Saint Hieronymus: Psalterium abbreviatum.
includes:
f. 1 Calendars: Calendaria varia.: Sec. xv. f. 19b Saint Thomas Becket,; Archbishop of Canterbury: Pictura caedis S. Thomae. f. 35 Liturgies, Liturgical Books and parts of such: Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis, secundum consuetudinem Angliae, etc.: Sec. xv. ff. 70. b., 78. b Saint Mary,; the Blessed Virgin: Hymni ad Beatam Virginem.: Sec. xv. f. 152 Howard; Anne Dacre, daughter of Thomas, Lord Dacre of Gillesland, wife of Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel; died in the year 1636: Wrote a prayer to the Virgin in. f. 152 Eleanor Stafford, daughter of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, wife of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham: A Prayer to the Virgin, in rhyme.'