Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI

Title

Radnor Hours, Use of Rome

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 32
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms32.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Bruges

Summary

This manuscript contains a mid-fifteenth century Book of Hours.

Notes

• Suffrage to Saint Sebastian, added in later hand, fol. 75r
   

Extent

76; 150 x 108 mm bound to 155 x 110 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (6), 2 (8, -8), 3-9 (8), 10 (8, -8)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Fifteenth-century original binding, leather over oak boards with remnants of clasps on upper board

Layout

Single column of eighteen lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical bounding lines, full length; remains of prickings in outer margin; written area: 85 x 55 mm; fols. 1-6 contain a calendar in four columns, the third blank, thirty-three ruled lines, single vertical bounding lines separate the columns; remains of prickings in outer margin; written area: 95 x 55 mm

Decoration

Full foliage borders bounded with red ink surround the text on fols.7r, 10r, 24r, 54r, 65r with penwork vine-stems, fruit, and flowers embellished with gold leaves and red, blue, pink, and green fruit and flowers; seven five-line gold initials beginning certain texts and numerous three- and two-line initials, including KL monograms in the calendar, with small penwork flourishes throughout; rubrics in red throughout; the presence of stubs before the major text sections suggests that miniatures once accompanied this text

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Written around 1450-60 in the Bruges region, Western Flanders according to Roger Wieck who examined the manuscript; early provenance unknown; illegible writing on inside front cover; in upper margin of fol. 1r in a later hand "nali 25 di settember me nato Carlo mio figliolo nel ano 1526."; given to Bryn Mawr College by Radnor High School, Radnor, Pennsylvania in 1984
   

Genres

• Books of hours

Keywords

• 15th century
• Flanders
• Book of Hours
• Flemish
• Illumination
• Devotion

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar of Bruges
• fol. 7r — Short Hours of the Holy Cross
• fol. 10r — Short Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 12r — Mass of the Virgin, use of Rome
• fol. 18v — Obsecro te
• fol. 24r — Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome
• fol. 54r — Penitential Psalms and Litany
• fol. 65r — Office of the Dead, use of Rome
• fol. 75r — Suffrage to Saint Sebastian

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Illegible writing in ink
• fol. 1r — In upper margin in a later hand: "nali 25 di settember me nato Carlo mio figliolo nel ano 1526"
• fol. 7r — Five-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 7r — Border on four sides
• fol. 10r — Five-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 10r — Border on four sides
• fol. 15r — Three-line illuminated initial I
• fol. 16r — Three-line illuminated initial I
• fol. 17r — Three-line illuminated initial I
• fol. 18r — Three-line illuminated initial I
• fol. 18v — Three-line illuminated initial O
• fol. 21v — Three-line illuminated initial O
• fol. 23r — Three-line illuminated initial S
• fol. 24r — Five-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 24r — Border on four sides
• fol. 31r — Five-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 39r — Five-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 42r — Five-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 44r — Five-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 46r — Five-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 48r — Five-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 52r — Five-line illuminated initial A
• fol. 54r — Five-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 54r — Border on four sides
• fol. 65r — Border on four sides
• Inside back cover — Illegible writing in ink