General Theological Seminary, 10 Western

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS309

Shelfmark:

10 Western

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Rome

Artist:

Gold Scrolls Group, school of

Masters of the Gold Scrolls WIKIDATA

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

s. XV(2/4); 1425-1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Bound, s. XIX#^1# in sheepskin finished to look like morocco with gold tooling, retaining earlier sewing structure with alum tawed thongs.
Figurative details, ff. 1-70: Five full-page miniatures on the versos of inserted singletons, blank on the rectos.
Other decoration, ff. 1-70: Major initials, 5- or 6-line, white-patterned dark pink or blue on a ground of the opposite color outlined in gold, infilling of red and blue flowers; 4- or 5- line initials in gold on white-patterned dark pink and blue grounds with the same infilling; for the Hours of the Virgin, these initials are accompanied by a C-shaped text frame in thin gold and colored bars...
Script, ff. 1-70: Gothic.
Layout, ff. 1-70: 1#^8#(-1, 2) 2#^8#(+1, 4, ff. 7, 10) 3#^10#(+4, f. 20; -10) 4#^6#(through f. 32) 5#^8# 6#^8#(+6, f. 46) 7#^8#(+8, f. 57) 8#^8# 9#^4#.

Former Owner(s):

Written in Flanders in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. A clipping accompanying the book from the GTS(?) Bulletin June 1968 says that Dr. John Plummer of the Pierpont Morgan Library identified the book. as being from the School of the Master of the Golden Scrolls, active in Belgium, probably Bruges in the decade 1420-30, and suggests the addition of Saint Rupert in the calendar connects the book to Salzburg. Purchased by General Theological Seminary in 1968. Inhouse call number: LIT 1200 1420-1430.

General Theological Seminary WIKIDATA

Note:

ff. 1-70: An inserted full page miniature is likely missing before f. 13.
ff. 1-70: Latin.
ff. 1-70v: ff. 1-6v: Calendar; ff.7v-9v: Short Hours of the Cross; ff. 10v-12v: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 13-20: Mass of the Virgin; ff.20v-45v: Hours of the Virgin; ff. 46v-56: Penitential Psalms and litany; ff. 67-70v: Obsecro Te, O intemerata (masculine forms).

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/10Western_23

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_10Western_23/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

General Theological Seminary