Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 15th century, beginning; Flemish, Ghent (?)
MS. Canon. Liturg. 118
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 15th century, beginning; Flemish, Ghent (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 118
Place of origin
Flemish, Ghent (?)
Date
15th century, beginning
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
2 + 116 + 2 fol.
Decoration
Good miniatures, partly damaged.
Good borders.
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 305, pl. XXIV)
Binding
15th century, origin unclear: wood boards, flush with textblock; red velvet, very worn on outside and spine almost lost, but with well-preserved turn-ins including a border of plain canvas with a green stripe; no surviving decoration; traces of two strap-and-pin fastenings with straps of red textile (lost) running from front fore-edge to lost pins near centre of back cover. The edges of both textblock and boards are gilt (very worn), evidently gilded after binding. 145–148 100–101 c. 30–36 (book closed).
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Title
Hours of the Virgin, according to the Roman use
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 118
Summary
Hours of the Virgin, according to the Roman use:
Preceded by a Calendar (fol. 1), Suffrages (fol. 17), and the Hours of the Cross (fol. 30)
Followed by prayers, the Penitential Psalms with Litany (fol. 78), and the Office for the Dead (fol. 93)
The Calendar is French or perhaps Rhenish (cf. St. Sophia on May 15). Leaves are lost after fols. 27, 67, 70.
Date
Written in the first half of the 15th century
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, with miniatures, illuminated borders, etc.
Physical extent
118 Leaves
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
Hours of the Virgin, according to the Roman use
