Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Southern Netherlands (Bruges, or perhaps Ghent), last decades of fifteenth century] 169 leaves, rebound on thin paper guards and thus uncollatable, but wanting single leaves throughout (mostly with miniatures), single column of 16 lines in a fine late gothic bookhand, one- and 2-line initials in liquid gold on blue and pink grounds heightened with white penwork, the larger of these sprouting hairline foliage into the margins with gold leaves and trilobed flowers with blue and dark pink tips to their petals, 5 leaves for Salve Regina prayer and in Suffrages of Saints with blue or pink historiated initials set on gold grounds and with full borders of coloured acanthus leaves and other foliage sprouting from a thin gold text frame, the borders enclosing birds, a snail and butterfly, Calendar leaves with KL initials in liquid gold and full borders in same style with roundels showing zodiac symbols and occupations enclosed in outer and lower margins, fourteen leaves with large coloured initials enclosing foliage set within trompe doeil borders in Ghent-Bruges style with flowers, fruit, realistic insects and for Office of the Dead skulls, six full-page miniatures (fol. 16v: Pentecost; 26v: Annunciation to the Virgin; 61v: Annunciation to the Shepherds; 75v, Massacre of the Innocents before an enthroned Herod; 98v: King David kneeling in prayer; 151v: David kneeling before the Cross) set within similar borders with birds, some flaking from paint in places and thumbing to borders, spots and stains, overall fair condition, 95 by 70mm.; nineteenth-century red velvet over bevelled wooden boards (these probably earlier), scuffed at edges, else good, fitted buckram suede-lined case A note dated 1851 and pasted to the front endleaf records that this book came from the library of the priest, Phillippe Bernhard. The text comprises a Calendar (fol. 1r; February-December); the Hours of the Passion (fol. 12r); the Hours of the Cross (fol. 20r); the Hours of the Virgin, (fol. 46r), followed by its seasonal variations; the Seven Penitential Psalms (fol. 99r) followed by a Litany; the Office of the Dead (fol. 118r); the Psalter of Jerome (fol. 152r); and the Suffrages of the Saints.
Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Southern Netherlands (Bruges, or perhaps Ghent), last decades of fifteenth century] 169 leaves, rebound on thin paper guards and thus uncollatable, but wanting single leaves throughout (mostly with miniatures), single column of 16 lines in a fine late gothic bookhand, one- and 2-line initials in liquid gold on blue and pink grounds heightened with white penwork, the larger of these sprouting hairline foliage into the margins with gold leaves and trilobed flowers with blue and dark pink tips to their petals, 5 leaves for Salve Regina prayer and in Suffrages of Saints with blue or pink historiated initials set on gold grounds and with full borders of coloured acanthus leaves and other foliage sprouting from a thin gold text frame, the borders enclosing birds, a snail and butterfly, Calendar leaves with KL initials in liquid gold and full borders in same style with roundels showing zodiac symbols and occupations enclosed in outer and lower margins, fourteen leaves with large coloured initials enclosing foliage set within trompe doeil borders in Ghent-Bruges style with flowers, fruit, realistic insects and for Office of the Dead skulls, six full-page miniatures (fol. 16v: Pentecost; 26v: Annunciation to the Virgin; 61v: Annunciation to the Shepherds; 75v, Massacre of the Innocents before an enthroned Herod; 98v: King David kneeling in prayer; 151v: David kneeling before the Cross) set within similar borders with birds, some flaking from paint in places and thumbing to borders, spots and stains, overall fair condition, 95 by 70mm.; nineteenth-century red velvet over bevelled wooden boards (these probably earlier), scuffed at edges, else good, fitted buckram suede-lined case A note dated 1851 and pasted to the front endleaf records that this book came from the library of the priest, Phillippe Bernhard. The text comprises a Calendar (fol. 1r; February-December); the Hours of the Passion (fol. 12r); the Hours of the Cross (fol. 20r); the Hours of the Virgin, (fol. 46r), followed by its seasonal variations; the Seven Penitential Psalms (fol. 99r) followed by a Litany; the Office of the Dead (fol. 118r); the Psalter of Jerome (fol. 152r); and the Suffrages of the Saints.
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