Book of Hours, use of Sarum, in Latin, English, and Czech (the "Felbrigg Hours") (DS9634) (Q42906)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18618583, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861858, mssHM 58285)
- Book of hours
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| English | Book of Hours, use of Sarum, in Latin, English, and Czech (the "Felbrigg Hours") (DS9634) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18618583, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861858, mssHM 58285) |
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22 July 2024
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Book of Hours, use of Sarum, in Latin, English, and Czech (the "Felbrigg Hours")
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Book of hours
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between 1390 and 1410
14. century
15. century
1390Gregorian
1410Gregorian
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Extent: ff. i + 64 + i : parchment ; 150 x 215 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Formal gothic script.
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Layout: Leaf signatures in quire 3; catchwords in decorative cartouches (ff. 12v, 18v, 20v, 36v, 44v, 51v), usually with caricature human faces in profile; 22 long lines; quires 2-7 ruled in brown ink, quires 8-9 in pale red ink, except ff. 63-64 ruled in bright red ink.
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Span folios: ff. 1-64v.
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The absence of David, Chad, Winefride and Bridget from the calendar might suggest a date not long after 1391. At least four full-page miniatures and seven large historiated initials accompanied by four-sided borders are missing, of which offsets survive e.g. on f. 49v.
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Assigned Date: s. XIV/XV.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/4/2009.
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Belonged probably to someone closely related to Simon de Felbrigg (d. 3 December 1442), and his first wife, Margaret of Teschen (d. 27 June 1413), daughter of Przemyslaw Noszak, kinswoman and Lady of Honour of Anne of Bohemia, Richard II's wife, who married Simon ca. 1386, as suggested by several of the obits added to the calendar, by the fact that the first miniature (now missing, see below...
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18 April 2025
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