Book of Hours (DS536) (Q2570)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University, Bloomington (Medieval and Renaissance 47)
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Book of Hours (DS536)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University, Bloomington (Medieval and Renaissance 47)

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    Part of Sotheby’s, 2 December 2003, lot 12; bought by the Lilly Library in 2007 from Phillip J. Pirages, cat. 54, no. 9.
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    s. XIV(in); 1300-1315
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    Binding: Not bound.
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    Figurative details, One leaf: A woman’s head with three-quarter bar border terminating in gold lions’ heads, dancing figure of a grey orange-headed ape in outer margin.
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    Other decoration, One leaf: Headings in red, line-fillers in red and blue; versal initials in alternating blue with red penwork and gold with pale blue penwork, with full-length marginal cascading ornament in red and blue on verso.
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    Script, One leaf: Liturgical textualis.
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    Layout, One leaf: Ruled in plummet, 11 lines, written-space 62 mm. by 47 mm., beginning below ruled top line.
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    Manuscript note: The manuscript was broken up in the late 1940s by the bookseller Heinrich Eisemann (1890-1972). Forty-one widely-scattered leaves are listed in Manion, Vines and de Hamel 1989, pp. 91-92, no. 72; two of these were afterwards sold in the Korner sale at Sotheby’s, 7 July 2009, lot 105. To that total must now be added further leaves from the Ghistelles Hours which have emerged in...
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    One leaf: The Calendar of the Ghistelles Hours (lacking January) is now Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W 851 (D. Vanwijnsberghe in Medieval Mastery 2002, pp. 220-21, no. 46). Prominent feasts listed there include Saints Amand and Vaast, and Saints Bertin, Omer and Bavo. A note on fol. 14r of the Walters portion records dates of fairs in Bruges, Sint-Truiden, Lille and Mesine. The table on fol...
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    One leaf: Latin.
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    One leaf: The leaf here is from the end of the first nocturn and opening of the second in Matins in the Office of the Dead, with psalm 22 in the Vulgate numbering, Dominus regit me ‘The Lord is my shepherd’.
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    28 June 2023
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    28 June 2023
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