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- Record Id:
- 040-002088796
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002088787
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001490.0x000149
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165148788.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 35318
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Rome
- Scope & Content:
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This Book of Hours, which features the Use of Rome, comes from a Parisian workshop called the 'Bellemare group', which was active c 1530 and responsible for the illuminations of at least ten other Books of Hours (see Orth, Renaissance Manuscripts (2015), II, no. 52). These manuscripts are closely related to the printed hours published in Paris by Geofroy Tory (see Orth, 'Geofroy Tory et l'enluminure' (1980), pp. 40-74). The features of the illuminations are indebted to the Master of Claude of France, Albrecht Dürer and the Antwerp mannerists, according to Orth.
Contents:
ff. 1r-12v: A Calendar.
ff. 13r-17r: The lessons from the four Evangelists.
ff. 17v-24v: The Passion, beginning: 'Passio domini nostri Iesu'.
ff. 25r-69r: The Hours of the Virgin followed by the Hours of the Cross and the Hours of the Holy Ghost.
ff. 69v-82v: The Penitential Psalms with Litanies.
ff. 83r-108v: The Office of the Dead with prayers including 'Obsecro te'; 'O intemerata', and 'Stabat mater'.
ff. 109r-124r: De memoriae sanctorum.
Decoration:
15 full-page miniatures framed in architectural borders (ff. 13r, 17v, 25r, 32v, 40v, 42r, 43v, 47v, 51v, 55r, 58v, 64v, 69v, 83r, 109r). 1 half-page miniature (f. 70r) of David sacrificing a lamb. 3 small miniatures. Each text page with a gold border. Borders with vegetal and animal decorative motifs. Initials in blue and gold or black and gold.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002088787
040-002088796 - Is part of:
- Add MS 35310-35324 : Rothschild Bequest
Add MS 35318 : Book of Hours, Use of Rome - Hierarchy:
- 032-002088787[0009]/040-002088796
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1525
- End Date:
- 1535
- Date Range:
- c 1530
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 150 x 95 mm (text space: 100 x 60 mm).
Foliation: ff. 124. Two unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end; plus one folded-strip of paper inserted before f. (i).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Red leather with gold-tooled motifs; gilt fore-edge.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, Central (Paris).
Provenance:
Frédéric Spitzer (b. 1815, d. 1890), merchant and art collector in Paris: his sale, 17 April 1893, lot 3040.
Ferdinand de Rothschild (b. 1839, d. 1898) art collector, banker and politician: he acquired the manuscript in 1895 (see de Hamel, The Rothschilds and their Collections (2005), pp.16-17); bequeathed to the British Museum in February 1899 with 14 other manuscripts: inscribed f. [iii] recto.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum), 1901, p. 256.
Myra Dickman Orth, 'Geofroy Tory et l'enluminure: Deux livres d'heures de la collection Doheny', Revue de l’Art, 50 (1980), 40-74.
Myra Dickman Orth, 'Book of Hours' in Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library, ed. by Thomas Kren (New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1983), pp. 187-91.
Myra D. Orth, ‘The Primacy of the Word in French Renaissance Psalm Manuscripts’, in The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose and Placement of its Images, ed. by F. O. Büttner (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp. 397-403 (p. 401).
Janet Backhouse, Illumination from Books of Hours (London: British Library, 2004), no. 117.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Illumination in the British Library (London: British Library, 1997), p. 230.
Christopher de Hamel, The Rothschilds and their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts (London: The British Library, 2005), pp.16-17.
Myra Dickman Orth, Renaissance Manuscripts: The Sixteenth Century, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2015), II, no. 52 (pp. 185-87) [with additional bibliography].
François Ier et l'Art des Pays-Bas, ed. by Cécile Scailliérez (Paris: Louvre Museum, 2017), no. 60, pp. 174, 470.
- Exhibitions:
- François I and Dutch Art, Musée du Louvre, Paris, October 18 2017 - January 15 2018
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)