Rochester Institute of Technology, 109908

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16503

Shelfmark:

109908

Title:

Book of hours

Book of hours

Place:

Southern Netherlands

Southern Netherlands TGN

Picardy, France

Picardy TGN

France TGN

Belgium

Belgium TGN

Date:

Fifteenth century, likely before 1472

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

French (Picard dialect)

French WIKIDATA

Picard WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: fols. 86; Parchment; 105 x 79 mm

Former Owner(s):

Despaigne family

Despaigne WIKIDATA

D'Assonleville family

D'Assonleville family WIKIDATA

Note:

Layout: 1 column, 14 lines
Script: Written in a French Gothic textualis script in black ink
Decoration: Capitals touched in yellow, 1- to 2-line initials alternating in red and blue throughout, many of the 2-line initials decorated with areas of parchment left in reserve. Nine 3- to 4-line puzzle initials with penwork flourishes alternating in red and blue.
Binding: Bound in the 18th or 19th century using leather from an earlier binding in dark brown morocco over tan-colored leather over wooden boards, the morocco blind-tooled with a frame of triple fillets. The earlier morocco leather is very worn and covers the boards only partly, and the leather underneath is also worn. Traces of a single clasp on the front cover
Black stains from pilgrims' badges on fols. 18v-19r and 37v-38r
Provenance: Calendar contains dated obits of the Despaigne and the D'Assonleville families, who can be traced to Arras in Picardy in the 16th century. In the margin of leaf 49 verso, an 18th or 19th century inscription in black ink "Rollet est im fripon" (Rollet is a rascal).
Calendar is in French, Use of Rome in the Netherlands. The calendar lacks the feast of the Presentation of the Virgin (introduced in the Roman Missal in 1472, indicating possible production before 1472), added to the calendar in a later hand.
Names added to calendar: Martine Despaigne, d. 1555; Jacques Despaigne, d. 1559; Jeanne Despaigne, d. 1598; Julye Despaigne, d. 1580; Jacques Despaigne, d. 1559; Marie Despaigne, d. 1578; Marie D'Assonleville, d. 1586

Keyword:

books of hours

decorated initials

fragments (object portions)

Prayers and devotions

Genealogy

Pilgrim badges

Institutional Record:

https://digitalcollections.rit.edu/luna/servlet/s/347ybn

IIIF Manifest:

https://digitalcollections.rit.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/RIT~1~1~1136~26783/manifest

Holding Institution:

Rochester Institute of Technology