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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS, [Northern France or Flanders, early fifteenth century]
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
Footnotes
An interesting Book of Hours, with extensive texts additional to the Book of Hours. Though the use is unidentified, the presence of St. Druon or Drogo (apparently venerated by the shepherds of Flanders, among others) in the Suffrages strongly suggests the origin in Northern France or Flanders. The calendar for August also lists the obscure St Bettremieu (in red), associated with Cambrai and Tournai.
COLLATION: A5 (of ?6 missing A1), B8 (but missing 2 leaves with miniatures, probably singletons before B1 and B8), C8, D6, E1 (singleton), F-J8, K4, L1 (singleton), M-O8 (including 1 blank leaf), P1 (singleton), Q-R8, S10, T-W8, X6 (of 8, wanting 2 final leaves).
TEXT: ff.1-5 Calendar March-December (wants January and February on first leaf); 6-12v Hours of the Cross; 13-19 Hours of the Holy Spirit; 19v-27v Suffrages including prayers to John the Baptist, Saints Margaret, Katherine, Barbara, and Druon [Drogo] (partly in French), 29-71 Hours of the Virgin; 74-81 Penitential Psalms; 82-84 De Prufundis; 84-96 Litany and Memorials; 99-123 Office of the Dead and readings; 124-35v Commendations; 136-55 Six Psalms; 156-162 miscellaneous devotions.
ILLUMINATION: 19v John the Baptist (104 × 76mm.); 20v Saint Margaret with a dragon (100 × 76mm.); 22 Priest and acolytes at an altar before the figure of Christ risen (100 × 80mm.); 28v The Angel appears to the Virgin in a bedchamber (126 × 78mm.); 73v David with his harp and book (124 × 79mm.); 98v Christ appears to a risen soul (female) before a town; 156 and 157, 2 small miniatures (56 × 45mm.).





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