General Theological Seminary, 11 Western

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS310

Shelfmark:

11 Western

Title:

Book of Hours, Sarum use

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

s. XV(3/4); 1450-1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; English

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Bound in red velvet (s. XIX, as reported by De Ricci); edges of the book block have been dusted with red.
Figurative details, ff. 1-198v: Five full page miniatures on the versos of what appear to be inserted singletons, blank on the recto. 21 historiated initials. Passion cycle images throughout the Hours.
Other decoration, ff. 1-198v: Major initials, 5-line, in white-patterned blue against gold ground with infilling of blue, green and red flowers on a vine. 2-line initials in gold on pink ground with blue infilling, or vice versa, ground and infilling both white-patterned. 1-line initials, blue with red penwork, or gold with black. Line fillers in the litany in blue and gold jigsaw pattern...
Script, ff. 1-198v: Gothic.

Former Owner(s):

Written in the third quarter of the fifteenth century in France for use in England. Apparently in the hands of English Protestants at some point in the s. XVI#^2# (see notes on calendar). Obtained by General Theological Seminary from P.M. Barnard, as reported by De Ricci.

Percy Mordaunt Barnard WIKIDATA

Note:

Bibliography: De Ricci p. 1286, number 13. Gania Barlow, "Protestant Martyrs added to a Book of Hours in English Ownership," Notes and Queries 256 (=n.s. 58) n. 2 (June 2011) 208-210.
ff. 1-198v: Latin.
ff. 1-195v; ff. 196-198v, notes: ff. 2-13v: Calendar, including partially cropped entires in later hand (s. XVI#^2#) for the deaths of Protestant martyrs Thomas Cranmer (21 March), and Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley (16 October); ff. 14v-22v: Fifteen Oes of St. Brigit; ff. 23-68v: Hours of the Virgin; ff. 68v-87: Prayers to the Virgin, including Obsecro te and O intemerata (masculine forms...

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/11Western_23

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_11Western_23/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

General Theological Seminary