Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome ("Mongan Hours")

Other related names

• Mongan, Agnes, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/44437300)
• Mongan, Elizabeth, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/22267583)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 26
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms26.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Northern Flanders (Brussels?), Belgium
Illustrations, produced separately, from Utrecht, Netherlands?

Summary

This is a mid-fifteenth century book of hours from Northern Flanders, use of Rome.

Extent

I+72+i; 178 x 114 mm bound to 186 x 127 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto and lower right recto

Collation

1 (6), 2-3 (10), 4 (8), 5 (12), 6 (10), 7-8 (8)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Nineteenth-century dark brown leather embossed with Tree of Jesse and "EGRE DICTUR VIRGA DE RADICE JESSE ET FLOS DE RADICE EIUS ASCENDET ET REQUIESCET SUPER EUM SPIRITUS DOMINI" (Isaiah 11:1-2) on front and back covers; grey moiré silk inside covers and on first and last flyleaves; silver filigree corner pieces, edgings and clasp; spine embossed with fleurs-de-lis and inscribed in gold: "ILLUMINATED MSS BOOK OF HOURS"

Layout

Single column, twenty lines, ruled in purple ink with single vertical bounding lines, full across and horizontal bounding lines running from inner edge of margin to outer vertical line; written area: 112 x 65 mm; Calendar thirty-three lines, four columns, inner columns separated by double vertical bounding lines

Decoration

Twelve full-page miniatures with borders on three sides; five-or six-line illuminated initials beginning each section, two-line illuminated initials beginning subsections, and one-line alternating initials beginning verses; rubrication in red; red penwork flourishes throughout

Script

Gothic -- textualis semi-quadrata

Provenance

• Written around 1450, in Northern Flanders, perhaps Brussels; the illustrations, which were produced separately, may come from Utrecht; early provenance unknown; unidentified 1910 catalogue entry inside front cover; given to Bryn Mawr College in 1982 by Agnes and Elizabeth Mongan
   

Genres

• Books of hours

Keywords

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Bryn Mawr College Library, MS 26: Book of Hours, Use of Rome ("Mongan Hours") are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 8r — Short Hours of the Cross
• fol. 11r — Mass of the Virgin, followed by Gospel Lessons
• fol. 20r — Hours of the Virgin
• fol. 55r — Penitential Psalms and Litany
• fol. 65r — Office of the Dead

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in pencil: "12 miniatures"
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notation in pencil
• fol. 7v — Full page miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 7v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 8r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 8r — Partial bar border, partial spray border with lion
• fol. 10v — Full page miniature, Virgin and Child
• fol. 10v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 11r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 11r — Partial bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 19v — Full page miniature, Agony in the Garden
• fol. 19v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 20r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 20r — Partial bar border, full spray border
• fol. 27v — Full page miniature, Betrayal
• fol. 27v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 28r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 28r — Partial bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 35v — Full page miniature, Christ before Pilate
• fol. 35v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 36r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 36r — Partial spray border
• fol. 38v — Large miniature, Flagellation of Christ
• fol. 38v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 39r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 39r — Partial spray border
• fol. 41v — Full page miniature, Christ Carrying the Cross
• fol. 41v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 42r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 42r — Partial spray border
• fol. 44v — Full page miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 44v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 45r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 45r — Partial spray border
• fol. 47v — Full page miniature, Deposition
• fol. 47v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 48r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 48r — Partial spray border
• fol. 51v — Full page miniature, Entombment
• fol. 51v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 52r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 52r — Partial spray border
• fol. 54v — Full page miniature, Last Judgment
• fol. 54v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 55r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 55r — Border on three sides
• fol. 64v — Full page miniature, Funeral scene
• fol. 64v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 65r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 65r — Border on three sides
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in pencil: "12 miniatures"
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notation in pencil