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Add MS 20927
- Record Id:
- 040-002091282
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002091128
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001555.0x0000a1
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 20927
- Title:
- Book of Hours (The 'Stuart de Rothesay Hours'), use of Rome
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript is a Book of Hours, use of Rome, including:
ff. 1r-12v: Calendar.
ff. 14r-90r: Hours of the Virgin.
ff. 92r-118r: Seven Penitential Psalms, with Litany.
ff. 120r-164v: Office of the Dead.
ff. 166r-171v: Hours of the Cross.
Decoration:
5 miniatures in colours (ff. 13v, 91v, 119v, 165v, 172r). 4 full historiated borders, with animals, flowers and all'antica elements including putti, cameos, medals, trophies, masks, gemstones, candelabra, satyrs, and heraldic decoration in colours and gold (ff. 14r, 92r, 120r, 166r). 4 historiated initials in colours (ff. 14r, 46r, 50r, 166r) and 4 initials in gold (ff. 46r, 50r, 53v, 64v) at the beginning of each canonical hour and the Hours of the Cross. Initials in colours with men's heads at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms and the Office of the Dead (ff. 92r, 120r). Space left for initials in the Hours of the Dead (ff. 129r, 158r).
The miniatures are by Giorgio Gulio Clovio (or Juraj Julije Klović), a Croatian artist active in Italy, mainly Rome in the households of Cardinal Domenico Grimani, his nephew Cardinal Marino Grimani and subsequently Cardinal Alessandro Farnese.
The subjects of the miniatures and initials are:
f. 13v: The Annunciation; in medallions: the Nativity and the Circumcision (Matins).
f. 14r: Initial 'D'(omine) of the Virgin and Child (Matins).
f. 46r: Initial 'D'(eus) of a praying man (Lauds).
f. 50r: Initial 'D'(eus) of a praying man (Prime).
f. 91v: David at prayer; in the border: David killing Goliath (Seven Penitential Psalms).
f. 92r: Initial 'D'(omine) of a man (David?); in the border: a battle (Seven Penitential Psalms).
f. 119v: Martha and Mary asking Christ to revive Lazarus; in the border: the Three Living and the Three Dead (Office of the Dead).
f. 120r: Initial 'D'(ilexi) of a man; in the border: A lamentation at a bed of a dead man (Office of the Dead).
f. 165v: The Crucifixion; in the border: the Carrying of the Cross and Christ praying in Gethsemane (Hours of the Cross).
f. 166r: Initial 'D'(omine) of Christ crowned with thorns; in the border: the Resurrection and the Harrowing of Hell (Hours of the Cross).
f. 172r: The Archangel Raphael and Tobias.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002091128
040-002091282 - Is part of:
- Add MS 20785-21005 : Charles, Lord Stuart de Rothesay, G.C.B.
Add MS 20927 : Book of Hours (The 'Stuart de Rothesay Hours'), use of Rome - Hierarchy:
- 032-002091128[0072]/040-002091282
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 20785-21005
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_20927 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1503
- End Date:
- 1543
- Date Range:
- c 1508-c 1538
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 135 x 90 mm (text space: 75 x 45 mm).
Foliation: ff. 172 (+ 4 unfoliated parchment flyleaves: 2 at the beginning and 2 at the end; ff. [ii] and [174] are former pastedowns).
Collation: i12 (ff. 1-12); ii10+1 (ff. 13-23; f. 13 is a singleton); iii-viii10 (ff. 24-83); ix8 (ff. 84-91); x-xi10 (ff. 92-111); xii8 (ff. 112-119); xiii-xvi10 (ff. 120-159); xvii6? (ff. 160-165); xviii8-1 (ff. 166-172; 1 leaf canceled after f. 172). Quire signature (letters of the alphabet from f. 14 to 159), traces of bifolium signatures (ff. 18r, 38r).
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Metalwork (silverplate clasps, defunct). Gilt fore-edge.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy (Padua? and Perugia).
Provenance:
Bartolomeo Sanvito (b. 1435, d. 1518), scribe and illuminator of Padua, written by him probably for Marino Grimani around 1508 when Grimani was appointed bishop of Ceneda by Pope Julius II (d. 1513): the text includes two prayers for Julius II (ff. 113v, 118v); and left unfinished (see De la Mare and Nuvoloni, Bartolomeo Sanvito, 2009).
Marino Grimani (b. c. 1489, d. 1546), Cardinal and Patriarch of Aquilea: his arms (f. 14r); identified with the Book of Hours described by Giorgio Vasari as illuminated for him by Giorgio Giulio Clovio (b. 1498, d. 1578) in Perugia where Grimani was a papal legate between 1535 and 1539, and completed before the artist's return to Rome in 1538.
Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay (b. 1779, d. 1845), diplomatist: purchased by the British Museum at his sale, Sotheby & Wilkinson, on 31 May 1855, lot 2706.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy (Padua? and Perugia).
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years MDCCCLIV- MDCCCLX (London: William Clowes and Son, 1875), pp. 293-94.
John W. Bradley, The Life and Works of Giorgio Giulio Clovio Miniaturist with Notices of His Contemporaries and of the Art of Book Decoration in the Sixteenth Century (London: Quaritch, 1891).
[Eric G. Millar], British Museum Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 4 (London: British Museum, 1926), pl. L.
Maria Cionini-Visani, 'Un itinerario nel manierismo italiano: Giulio Clovio', Arte Veneta, 25 (1971), 119-44 (pp. 125-26).
Maria Cionini-Visani, Giorgio Giulio Clovio: Miniaturist of the Renaissance (New York: 1980).
Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library, ed. by Thomas Kren (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1983), no. 92, ill. 11.
Janet Backhouse, Books of Hours (London: British Library, 1985), fig. 56.
Sandra Hindman and Michael Heinlen, 'A Connoisseur's Montage: The Four Evangelists Attributed to Giulio Clovio', Museum Studies, 17 (1991), 154-82 (fig. 2).
Albina de la Mare, 'Bartolomeo Sanvito da Padova, copista e miniatore', in Parole Dipinte: La Miniatura a Padova dal Medioevo al settecento (Padua, 1999), pp. 495-505, esp. p. 505 (manuscript number erroneously given as Add. 20727) [Exhibition catalogue].
Elena Calvillo, 'Romanità and Grazia: Giulio Clovio's Pauline Frontispieces for Marino Grimani', Art Bulletin, 82 (2000), 280-97.
William M. Voelkle and Ivan Golub, 'Commentary', in Farnese Book of Hours with Illuminations by Giulio Clovio Croata' (Zagreb: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2001), p. 13.
Elena Calvillo, 'Imitation and Invention in the Service of Rome: Giulio Clovio's Works for Cardinals Marino Grimani and Alessandro Farnese' (unpublished doctoral dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 2003).
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, 'A Newly Discovered Manuscript Illuminated by Giulio Clovio', in Quand la peinture était dans les livres: Mélanges en l'honneur de François Avril, ed. by Mara Hofmann, Eberhard König and Caroline Zöhl (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 25-33 (pp. 25, 32, nn. 4, 5).
Albina C. de la Mare and Laura Nuvoloni, Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe, ed. by Anthony R. A. Hobson and Christopher de Hamel (Paris: Association internationale de bibliophilie, 2009), no. 120 [with additional bibliography].
Julije Klović, Najveći Minijaturist Renesanse / Giulio Clovio, The Greatest Miniaturist of the Renaissance, Galerija Klovićevi dvori, 8 November 2012 – 20 January 2013 [exhibition catalogue] (Zagreb: Galerija Klovićevi dvori, 2012), no. 1, pp. 88-89.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)