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Record Id:

040-002088649

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002088648

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001490.0x0000d4

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100171861490.0x000001

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Add MS 35214

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Scope & Content:

A Book of Hours, probably made for a member of the court circle of France. The illumination is attributed to the ‘Master of Claude of France’, who was active in Tours around 1510–1525 and who is named after two manuscripts he produced for Queen Claude (b. 1499, d. 1524).

Contents:

ff. 1r-12v: Calendar.

ff. 14r-18v: Gospel readings.

ff. 19r-26v: the Passion of the Lord according to the Gospel of John.

ff. 27r-29r: the hymn 'Stabat Mater', followed by a prayer to 'Notre Dame de Lorette' (Our Lady of Loreto).

ff. 30r-85r: the Hours of the Virgin, with prayers between Lauds and Prime: Matins in the Hours of the Cross (ff. 49r-v) and Matins in Hours of the Holy Spirit (ff. 51r-v).

ff. 86r-101r: the Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany.

ff. 102r-125v: the Office for the Dead.

ff. 126r-135r: Suffrages.

ff. 136r-141v: Prayers: 'Obsecro te', 'O intemerata', and 'Septem orationes Beati Gregori'.

Decoration, attributed to the Master of Claude of France:

15 miniatures full-page miniatures in colours and gold with Renaissance architectural frames: St John the Evangelist (f. 13v); the Agony in the Garden (f. 18v); the Annunciation (f. 29v); the Visitation (f. 38v); the Crucifixion (f. 48v); Pentecost (f. 56v); the Nativity (f. 52v); Annunciation to the Shepherds (f. 57v); Adoration of the Magi (f. 62v); Presentation at the Temple (f. 67v); Flight into Egypt (f. 72v); the Virgin in Glory (f. 75v); David and Goliath (f. 85v); Job on the dung heap (f. 101v); the Virgin and Child (f. 135v).

23 small-sized miniatures in colours and gold: St Luke the Evangelist (f. 15r); St Matthew the Evangelist (f. 16r); St Mark the Evangelist (f. 17v); the Pieta (f. 27r); the Trinity (f. 126r); St Michael the Archangel (f. 126v); St John the Baptist (f. 127r); St John the Evangelist (f. 127v); Sts Peter and Paul (f. 128r); St James (f. 128v); St Lawrence (f. 129r); St Sebastian (f. 129v); St Nicholas (f. 130r); St Roch (f. 130v); St Anne (f. 131r); St Mary Magdalene (f. 131v); St Catherine (f. 132r); St Margaret (f. 132v); St Barbara (f. 133r); St Apollonia (f. 134r); St Genevieve (f. 134v); the Mass of St Gregory (f. 137v); the Virgin and Child (f. 138v).

Roundels in the lower borders of the calendar containing signs of the Zodiac in colours and gold (ff. 1r-12v).

Illusionistic borders of flowers and insects in colours on a gold ground throughout, expanding into almost full-page floral miniatures at the end of texts: rose and lily (f. 29r); red carnation (f. 38r); violas (f. 48r); sweet violets (f. 50r); daisies (f. 52r); white violets (f. 57r); greater plantain (f. 62r); apple blossom (f. 67r); pasque flower (f. 72r); buttercups (f. 85r); white carnation (f. 125v).

Decorated initials throughout in rose or blue on a gold ground, or in gold on a rose or blue ground.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002088648
040-002088649

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Add MS 35214-35221 : Hours of the Virgin, etc., in Latin

Add MS 35214 : Book of Hours, Use of Rome

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032-002088648[0001]/040-002088649

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A parchment codex

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Languages:

French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1510

End Date:

1520

Date Range:

1510-1520

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment. All leaves have been cut out and mounted onto modern parchment leaves, probably to restore the manuscript after flood damage when in the collection of John Boykett Jarman (see Backhouse, ‘A Victorian Connoisseur’ (1968), 77-81).

Dimensions: 130 x 90 mm (written space: 70 x 45 mm).

Foliation: ff. i + 141 (+ 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning and the end; i is a parchment flyleaf at the beginning).

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: Post-1600. Dark green velvet with silver clasps and bosses. The centre boss in each cover is engraved with the initials ‘MH’ and date 1632. It is likely that the binding and its ornaments date from the 19th century, added when the manuscript was in the collection of John Boykett Jarman (see Backhouse, ‘A Victorian Connoisseur’ (1968), 84, ill. XXX).

Custodial History:

John Boykett Jarman (b. 1782, d. 1864), London jeweller and collector: his sale 13-14 June 1864, lot 140. While in Jarman’s possession, the Crucifixion miniature (f. 48v) was copied by Caleb Wing (d. 1875), artist and forger, and the copy was inserted into another manuscript in Jarman’s collection, now UCL MS Lat. 25. The MS was damaged during the 1846 London flood that inundated Jarman's house (see Backhouse, ‘A Victorian Connoisseur’ (1968), 77-81).

William Bragge (b. 1822, d. 1884), engineer and antiquary: exhibited the manuscript in the National Exhibition of Works of Art, Leeds, 1868, no. 544; his sale, Sotheby's, 7 June 1876, lot 222.

A 19th-century owner: inscribed ‘given to my own little nun by her loving B.’ (f. i).

Miss Helen Lindsay (probably Anne Helen Lindsay (b. 1868, d. 1955), book collector): presented the manuscript to the British Museum in 1898, as recorded in the minutes of the committee meeting of the Department of Manuscripts on 10 December 1898. The recto of the second flyleaf is inscribed: ‘Presd by Miss H. Lindsay 25 Nov. 1898’.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available at: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1894-1899 (London: the British Museum, 1901), p. 212.

Janet Backhouse, ‘A Victorian Connoisseur and His Manuscripts: The Tale of Mr. Jarman and Mr. Wing’, The British Museum Quarterly, 32, 3/4 (1968), 76–92 (pp. 83, 89).

Janet Backhouse, review of The Master of Claude, Queen of France: A Newly Defined Miniaturist by Charles Sterling, The Burlington Magazine, 118 (1976), 524–526 (pp. 525-56).

Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), pl. 64.

Janet Backhouse, 'French Manuscript Illumination, 1450-1530', in Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library, ed. by Thomas Kren (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1983), 145-92 (149-150)

Fake? The Art of Deception, ed. by Mark Jones, Paul Craddock, and Nicolas Barker (London: British Museum, 1990), no. 202 [exhibition catalogue].

François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à Peintures en France 1440-1520 (Paris: Flammarion, 1993), pp. 320, 322 [exhibition catalogue].

Celia Fisher, Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts (London: the British Library, 2004), pp. 43-49.

Myra D. Orth, Renaissance Manuscripts: The Sixteenth Century, 2 vols, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France (London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2015), II, no. 11, pp. 66-68 [with further bibliography].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)