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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS, Use of Rome, [Southern Netherlands, mid fifteenth-century] image 1
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
BOOK OF HOURS, Use of Rome, [Southern Netherlands, mid fifteenth-century]

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT

BOOK OF HOURS, Use of Rome, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 141 leaves (of at least 148), in a single rounded gothic hand on 16 lines, 3 FULL-PAGE MINIATURES in arched compartments with full borders with scrolls, leaves, fruit, flowers, birds and snails, 10 further pages with full borders in similar style, several 4/5 line initials with liquid gold and colours, numerous smaller initials, rubrics and line-fillers, quite rubbed in places, sometimes affecting borders, later blindstamped calf, small 8vo (90 × 70mm.), [Southern Netherlands, mid fifteenth-century]

Footnotes

TEXT: ff. 1-4 Hours of the Cross; 5-8 Hours of the Holy Spirit; 9-24 Mass of the Virgin; 25-73 Hours of the Virgin (omitting Matins); 74-85v Seven Penitential Palms; 85v-92v Litany etc; 93-126 Office of the Dead; 127-141 Psalms of Saint Jerome.

ILLUMINATION: 3 miniatures (only, of perhaps 10 originally present), depicting the Annunciation to the Shepherds; Christ appearing to a risen soul; and Saint Jerome (each c.50 × 35mm.).

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