Indiana University Bloomington, Medieval and Renaissance 47

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS536

Shelfmark:

Medieval and Renaissance 47

Title:

Book of Hours

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

s. XIV(in); 1300-1315

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
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.
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.
Script, One leaf: Liturgical textualis.
Layout, One leaf: Ruled in plummet, 11 lines, written-space 62 mm. by 47 mm., beginning below ruled top line.

Former Owner(s):

Part of Sotheby’s, 2 December 2003, lot 12; bought by the Lilly Library in 2007 from Phillip J. Pirages, cat. 54, no. 9.

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts WIKIDATA

Associated Agent(s):

John III Ghistelles

John III, Lord of Ghistelles and Ingelmunster WIKIDATA

Note:

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...
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...
One leaf: Latin.
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’.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/MedievalandRenaissance47_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_MedievalandRenaissance47_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington