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Record Id:

040-002057334

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032-002057322

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Title:

Book of Hours, use of the Humiliate Nuns

Scope & Content:

Contents:

Book of Hours, use of the Humiliate Nuns, with prayers in Latin and Italian (ff. 214r-287v) and some rubrics in Italian, including prayers to or associated with Pope Gregory the Great (ff. 234v-235v), St Augustine (ff. 247r-249v, 282v), St Jerome (f. 272v-273r), St John the Baptist (f. 284v-285r) and Pope Sixtus IV (f. 285v-286r).

Decoration:

Fourteen full-page miniatures, some with frames in black or colours with gold, incorporating all'antica decoration, with biblical, classical and mythological figures, cameos, animals, birds, jewels and architectural elements (ff. 1r, 36v, 43v, 121v, 137v, 149v, 204v), some with foliate borders in colours with gold incorporating a circular medallion containing a miniature (ff. 49v, 55v, 61v, 75v, 81v, 103v, 130v). Sixteen historiated initials with foliate partial borders (ff. 1v, 17r, 37r, 44r, 50r, 56r, 62r, 76r, 82r, 104r, 122r, 131r, 138r, 150r, 205r, 255r) one including a bas-de-page miniature (f. 17r) . Smaller initials in gold, on blue and crimson grounds decorated with white tracery, throughout. Small initials in red or blue with penwork decoration in blue or brown. Rubrics in red.

Attributed to the Master of the Landriani Hours (active Milan c. 1490 - early 16th century), and the workshop of Matteo da Milano (active about 1492 - about 1523 Rome and Ferrara), one of the most important Italian illuminators working in the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Originally from Milan, Matteo worked largely in Rome and Ferrara. His patrons included the Este family of Ferrara, the Medici of Florence, the Orsini of Rome, and the della Rovere, dukes of Urbino. He specialized in making manuscripts for highly ranking ecclesiastics from prominent families, among them Pope Leo X.

The subjects of the full-page miniatures are:

f. 1: The Annunciation;

f. 36v: The Nativity;

f. 43v: The Adoration of the Magi;

f. 49v: The Presentation of Christ in the Temple;

f. 55v: The Flight into Egypt;

f. 61v: The Disputation of Christ against the Doctors of the Temple;

f. 75v: The Betrayal, Judas kisses Christ on the cheek;

f. 81v: The Baptism of Christ;

f. 103v: Christ keeps vigil in the Garden of Gethsemane while the disciples sleep;

f. 121v: Christ carrying the Cross;

f. 130v: The Crucifixion;

f. 137v: The Deposition and Entombment;

f. 204v: Onofrio (Onuphrius) praying in the Desert, with a dove descending.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002057322
040-002057334

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Add MS 38114-38126 : HUTH BEQUEST. The following thirteen MSS., 38114-38126, were included amoung the fifty books to be selected from his…

Add MS 38124 : Book of Hours, use of the Humiliate Nuns

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032-002057322[0010]/040-002057334

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A parchment codex, 288 folios

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Italian
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1481

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

Late 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: parchment.

Dimensions: 120 x 100mm (text space: 70 x 50mm)

Foliation: ff. 288 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Layout: 11 lines, written in one column.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1962.

Custodial History:

The Cistercian monastery of Salem, or Salmansweiler, in the diocese of Constance (dissolved in 1803, see A. Krieger, Topographisches Wörterbuch des Grossherzogtums Baden, ii, 1905, coll. 722-732): inscribed 'B.M.V. in Salem' (f. 1v) and 'Reverendissimus DD. Robertus [Schlecht] Abbas in Salem. Andreas Prior in Salem anno 1801' (f. 288v).

Henry Huth (b. 1815, d. 1878), book collector, in the catalogue of his library: The Huth Library (1880), III, p. 1056.

Alfred Henry Huth (b. 1850, d. 1910), book collector: his book-stamps on the inside upper binding, inscribed 'Ex Museo Huthi' and 'Huth Bequest Vol. XI.'. Bequeathed by him to the British Museum in 1910 (see Catalogue of the Huth Bequest (1912), pp. 14-15).

Publications:

The Huth Library: A Catalogue of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, and Engravings Collected by Henry Huth, 5 vols (London: Ellis and White, 1880), III, p. 1056.

Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscripts & Printed Books Bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfred H. Huth (London: British Museum, 1912), pp. 14-15, pl. 11.

[J. A. Herbert], Illuminated Manuscripts and Bindings of Manuscripts Exhibited in The Grenville Library, Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts, 3 (Oxford: British Museum, 1923), p. 37.

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 (London: British Museum, 1968), pp. 23-25.

Fabrizio Lollini, 'Matteo da Milano' in Dizionario Biografico dei Miniatori Italiani: Secoli IX-XVI, ed. by Milvia Bollati (Milan: Bonnard, 2004), pp. 742-45 (p. 575: cited incorrectly as Add 38294)

Exhibitions:

Art in Lombardy from the Viscontis to the Sforzas, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 12 March 2015 - 28 June 2015

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

Single Folio from the Sforza Book of Hours. Exhibited: Art in Lombardy from the Viscontis to the Sforzas, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 12 March 2015 - 28 June 2015

Names:

Abbey of Salem or Salmansweiler, Baden, 1134-1803
Schlecht, Robert, Abbot, 1778-1802
Sixtus IV, Pope, 1414-1484

Related Material:

From the printed Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1911-1915 (1968): HUTH BEQUEST. Vol. XI. Hours, etc., in Latin (with a few prayers and rubrics in Italian), according to the use of the Humiliate nuns. Contents:(1) "Officium beate Marie uirginis secundum ordinem Humiliatorum" ; the "Capitulum" in Compline (f. 74 b) beg. "Sorores, sobrie estote." f. I b ;(2) "Septem psalmi penitentiales." f. 81 ;(3) "Letanie," including Bassianus [Bishop of Lodi], Geminianus [Bishop of Modena], "Miserilianus," and Liberata. f. 103 ;(4) "Officium sanete crucis," including (f. 129) a prayer with the petition "Exaudi me . . . peccatricem." f. 121;(5) "Officium sancti Spiritus." f. 130;(6) Vigils of the Dead. f. 138;(7) "Letanie beate virginis Marie." f. 205 ;(8) Prayers, partly in Italian. f. 214 b. Including (a) Eight prayers, each beg. "0 Domine lesu Christe," said in the rubric to have been indulgenced by St. Gregory the Pope in consequence of his vision of the Image of Pity (cf. H. Thurston in The Month, Sept. 1908, p. 312). f. 234b;-(b) "0 anima Christi," an expanded version of the "Anima Christi." f. 239 ;(c) Prayer to be said before the "Sudario," beg. "Dio te salua sancta faza." f.243b;(d) "Obsecro te," etc., headed "Oratio sancti Augustini." f. 247;(e) "Versi miraculosi da dire sovenzo," beg. "Illumina oculos meos." f. 249 b ; (f) Prayer on the Seven Words, beg. "Domino Iesu Christe, qui septem uerba" [by Beda (?), cf. Migne, Patrol. Lat., xciv, col. 561]. f. 251 b ;(g) Fifteen Oes [not the same as those found in English devotional books], beg. "0 suavitas et requies." With rubric at the end, in Italian, setting forth the spiritual profits to be gained by tbeir use before a crucifix. f. 255 ;(h) Prayers to, and in commemoration of, St. Jerome. f. 272b;(k) "Oratio sancti Augustini comprehendens horas canonicas passionis Christi, confirmata a sancto Gregorio papa cum indulgentia .ccc^adierum," beg. "Domine Yesu Christe, tu in nocte unictus." f. 282 b; (1) Prayer to St. John the Baptist, beg. "Beatissime Iohannis (sic) baptista." f. 284 b;(m) Prayer to the Virgin, beg. "Ave sanctissima"; with rubric "Sistus papa quartus concessit devote dicenti suprascriptam orationem duodecim milia annorum de vera indulgentia pro qualibet vice. Datum Rome anno sui pontificatus .9⁰. m cccc^o lxxx." f. 285 b. Such phrases as "me infelicem famulam tuam," "mihi peccatrici," etc., occur in many of the prayers (ff. 224 b, 230 b, etc.). At the end (ff. 286 b-287 b) another prayer, beg. "[P]ietate tua," has been added by a later hand. Vellum; ff. 288. 4 3/4 in. x 3 1/2 in. End of xv cent. (after 1480, see above). Gatherings of 8 leaves (xxvi⁴, xxxi², last²). Sec. fol. "Deus in." Finely illuminated by artists of the Milanese school, with fourteen full-page and two smaller miniatures find fifteen historiated initials. Smaller initials in gold, on blue and crimson grounds decorated with white tracery, throughout. The miniatures are all in the characteristic Italian Renaissance manner, and so are many of the, borders which surround them (see Cat. of Huth Bequest, pl. 11). Some of the latter, however, and most of the partial borders attached to the historiated initials, show signs of Franco- Flemish influence, consisting mainly of scroll-work designs of foliage, flowers and fruit painted on the plain vellum surface. The border on f. 205 is in a different style, but still suggests Flemish influence; it is composed of pansies on a gold ground. Apparently belonged in 1801 to the Cistercian monastery of Salem, or Salmansweiler, in the diocese of Constance (dissolved in 1803, see A. Krieger, Topogr. Wörterb. des Grossherzogtums Baden, ii, 1905, coll. 722-732): see f. 1b, "B:M:V: in Salem" ; f. 288b, "Reverendissimus DD. Robertus [Schlecht] Abbas in Salem. Andreas Prior in Salem. anno 1801." Huth bookplate. The Huth Library, iii, p. 1056. Burlington Fine Arts Club, Cat. of Illum. MSS., no. 261, pl. 157.