(Q2594)
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The Hungerford Hours was illuminated by the same artist as a Psalter at Schloss Herdringen in Germany, MS 8 (Sandler 1986, p. 89, no. 81).
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Offered for sale by Alan G. Thomas, London bookseller, in May 1970; given to the Lilly Library in 2006 by Rudolf and Marion Gottfried.
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s. XIV(2/4); 1325-1350
14. century
1325Gregorian
1350Gregorian
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Binding: Not bound.
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Figurative details, One leaf: 3-line illuminated initial on recto,illustrates Compline in the Hours of the Cross. Saint John the Evangelist, the Virgin and Saint Mary Magdalene, helped by Joseph of Arimathea, are lowering the crucified Body of Christ into the sepulchre. Joseph is shown with the hooked nose and wild beard of medieval anti-Jewish satire; the mineature also encloses a...
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Other decoration, One leaf: Heading in pale red, versal initials alternately in blue with red penwork or in gold with mauve penwork.
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Script, One leaf: Liturgical textualis; cursive.
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Layout, One leaf: Ruled in red-brown ink, 17 lines, written-space 125 mm. by 75 mm.
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Manuscript note: A leaf from the Hungerford Hours, a notably early English Book of Hours which was published first by Backhouse 1981 and Michael 1990. The crumbling remains of the very damaged manuscript were acquired around 1970 jointly by Alan G. Thomas (1911-1992), bookseller, and Charles Ede (1921-2002, founder of the Folio Society and proprietor of Folio Fine Art). Separate leaves were...
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One leaf: 3 lines in Latin added in a late medieval cursive hand at the foot of the verso; slight wear.
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One leaf: Latin.
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One leaf: The text is from the end of Compline, in the Hours of the Virgin, Use of Sarum, in the Nunc dimittis, or Song of Simeon. Compline for the Hours of the Cross begins with the usual verse but translated into Anglo-Norman, the dialect of French still spoken by the English nobility in the fourteenth century, A lure de complie au sepulchre est cuche / Le noble corus al douz ihesu...
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Explicit, One leaf: in pace, quia viderunt oculi mei.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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