Indiana University Bloomington, Medieval and Renaissance 29
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS574
- Shelfmark:
- Medieval and Renaissance 29
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Heures Mixtes
Book of Hours - Scribe:
- Similar to the scribe of the Hours of Étienne Chevalier
- Artist:
- Master of the Vienna Mamerot, in the style of
Jean Bourdichon?
Jean Fouquet, in the style of
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- s. XV(2); 1450-1499
- Language:
- Latin; French
- Physical Description:
- Binding: Bound in late sixteenth-century French dark brown morocco gilt, gilt edges, lacking 2 pairs of ties; in a fawn cloth case.
Figurative details, ff. 219: 15 large miniatures, either full-page (sometimes incorporating a few words of text, as on fols. 13r and 29r) or in large arch-topped compartments above large illuminated initials and within full illuminated floral borders including birds and grotesques, showing Saint John on Patmos (fol. 13r, Gospel Sequences), the Virgin and Child, full-length, enthroned (fol...
Other decoration, ff. 219: Calendar in alternating lines of red and blue with major entries in gold; small initials and line-fillers throughout in liquid gold on colored panels.
Script, ff. 219: Ba^tarde.
Layout, ff. 219: Collation: i–ii#^6#, iii–iv#^8#, v–xi#^8#, xii#^6+2# [fols. 89–90 are an inserted bifolium, for no obvious reason], xiii–xxvii#^8#, xxviii#^7# [of 8, blank vii canceled]; ruled in red ink, 12 lines, written-space 57 mm. by 40 mm. - Former Owner(s):
- Damascène Morgand, Bulletin mensuel 29 (November 1891), no. 19790 (cutting inside upper cover); Elisabeth Ball (1897-1982); part of her bequest to the Lilly Library, 1982.
Damascène Morgand, Bulletin mensuel 29 (November 1891), no. 19790 (cutting inside upper cover); Elisabeth Ball (1897-1982); part of her bequest to the Lilly Library, 1982.
- Note:
- Bibliography: Stratford 2002, passim; Avril 2003, pp. 382-83, no. 49.
ff. 219: Coat-of-arms, smudged but including azure a bend, apparently or, perhaps those of a member of the Burgundian family of Longwy (Rietstap 1884, II, p. 94). A possible candidate might be Philippe de Longwy (1447–1493), seigneur de Pagny, or his elder brother, Étienne de Longwy, bishop of Mâcon 1485–1511. Prayers in the manuscript are for male use.
ff. 219: Latin.
f.1r-210r: Use of Tours. The text comprises: a Calendar, in French (fol. 1r); the Gospel Sequences (fol. 13r); the Obsecro te (fol. 21r); the Hours of the Virgin [Use of Tours] (fol. 29r) mixed with the Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Ghost; the Penitential Psalms (fol. 117r) and Litany; the Office of the Dead (fol. 143r); verses on the Arms of Christ (fol. 207v) and the Instruments of the... - Institutional Record:
- https://archive.org/details/MedievalandRenaissance29_40
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_MedievalandRenaissance29_40/manifest.json
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