Book of Hours, Use of Tournai — 15th century, third quarter; Flemish
MS. Canon. Liturg. 175
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Book of Hours, Use of Tournai — 15th century, third quarter; Flemish
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 175
Associated place
Flemish
Place of origin
Flemish
Date
15th century, third quarter
Language
Latin
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii + 1 + 109 + ii fol.
Decoration
Good miniaturers.
Good borders.
Good initials. By two hands, that on fols. 64v and 78v of an earlier generation. (Pächt and Alexander i. 334, pl. XXVI)
Binding
A composite binding, in which a modern structure with new boards preserves earlier elements:
15th century, late, or early 16th century, Flemish: brown cover-leather only (no spine), with a blind panel containing two rows of four ‘animals-in-foliage’ (eagle, stag, wyvern, lion, a common design) stamped twice on each cover; a parchment flyleaf at front (fol. iii) with holes and marks at fore-edge for two lost clasps; gilt edges, with indistinct traces of gauffering.
19th century, second half, before 1897, Bodleian: pasteboards covered with brown leather, underlying the old leather. 195 c. 129 c. 40 (book closed). ‘Not certainly a Canonici volume’, according to Summary Catalogue.
For animals-in-foliage panels (no exact match), see J. Basil Oldham, Blind panels of English binders, Cambridge 1958, pp. 15–18; Staffan Fogelmark, Flemish and related panel-stamped bindings: evidence and principles, New York 1990, pp. 33–4.
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Title
Hours of the Virgin, according to the use of Tournay
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 175
Summary
Hours of the Virgin, according to the use of Tournay, in Latin: preceded by:
A Calendar (fol. 1)
'Heures de la Croix' (fol. 14)
Hours of the Holy Spirit (fol. 19)
Followed by:
The Penitential Psalms with Litany (fol. 65)
'Les Vegilles des Mors' (fol. 79)
Suffrages, etc. (fol. 102), some of which are added later, one of the latter with a Dutch rubric
This is not certainly a Canonici volume.
Date
Written in the 15th century in France
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, with five full-page miniatures, borders, etc., binding, leather with stamped devices (sides only, the rest modern)
Physical extent
111 Leaves
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
Hours of the Virgin, according to the use of Tournay
