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Title

Castle hours #3, use uncertain

Other related names

• Broulin, Guilberto, former owner
• Borthwick, John (1824-1907), former owner
• Castle, Ethelinda Schaefer, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 21
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms21.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Northern France

Summary

This manuscript is a French book of hours from the third quarter of the fifteenth century. The use is uncertain, but the calendar suggests the Diocese of Tournai. The seventeen large miniatures comprise the Evangelists, a full Infancy cycle for the Hours of the Virgin, Kind David for the penitential psalms, the Virgin on a Crescent Moon holding the infant Christ, four images of saints, a Crucifixion, and the Raising of Lazarus. Depicted in smaller miniatures are a funeral service, an Imago Pietatis, and the infant Christ seated on a cushion. An inscription suggests that the first owner was also the scribe.

Notes

• The binding was conserved by CCAHA in 2004 through the kind gift of the Samuel N. & Mary Castle Foundation.
   
• Also called Castle Hours #3
   

Extent

I+90+ii; 140 x 104 mm bound to 147 x 113 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-2 (6), 3 (8, -6 -7), 4 (9, +6), 5-8 (8), 9 (10), 10 (8), 11 (6), 12 (8, -6 -7)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Eighteenth-century leather, gold-tooled with a frame of flowers around a scattering of fleur de lys, in the center a garland of vines the name BERTHELEMY appears in gold on the upper front cover and DU MONTYER on the back.

Layout

Single column, twenty-one lines, red ink, horizontal lines edge to edge; written area: 80 x 60 mm

Decoration

Seventeen full-page miniatures with borders on three sides, facing pages with opening of texts, six-line initials and borders on three sides, three smaller miniatures with borders on three sides surrounding image and text, other pages narrow outside border matching text block in height, two-line section initials in gold with alternating red and blue backgrounds, one-line sentence initial alternating gold and blue, calendar with two-line KL and narrow outside border

Script

Bâtarde

Scribe: Guilberto Broulin ?

Colophon

Colophon at end of the Office of the Dead on fol. 85r, in the same hand as the text: "Pertinet Guilberto Broulin qui les a faictes"

Provenance

• Written and illustrated in Northern France in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. Colophon at end of the Office of the Dead on fol. 85r, in the same hand as the text: "Pertinet Guilberto Broulin qui les a faictes" suggests that the owner and the scribe were the same person. On fol.18r a note written in English in a much later (and badly faded) hand: "This forgoing report of/ Duke of Lennox--Lord/ Chancellor [ ]/ is what was shewed to/ me as part of the/ of the [ ] of J. Borthwick/ of Crookston for the/ [ ] of one old/[ ] [ ] in/ England and after an/ inspection of it by the/ Guard officers no objection/ was moved agt the/ authenticity of it." Bookplate of John Borthwick of Crookston (1824-1907) inside front cover; written on bookplate in ink: "Number in Catalogue XXVIII". On fol. ir in ink: "Ex Libris/ Jo. Borthwick de Crookstown". The name Berthelemy Du Montyer on the cover suggests ownership. Owned by Ethelinda Schaefer Castle of Hawaii, and given by bequest to Bryn Mawr College in 1971
   

Genres

• Books of hours

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• Miniature
• France
• French
• Devotion
• Illumination

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 13v — Gospel Lessons
• fol. 18v — Hours of the Virgin, use uncertain
• fol. 45v — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 54v — Prayers to the Virgin, beginning with Salve regina
• fol. 57v — Suffrages
• fol. 67v — Short Office of the Cross
• fol. 69v — Office of the Dead
• fol. 85v — Prayers, beginning with Avete omnes animae fideles
• fol. 88v — Prayer, in French, in a different hand; incipit: Seigneur Jesus Christ filz Unique de dieu meetz ta passion

Decorations

• fol. 13v — Large miniature, Four Evangelists
• fol. 13v — Border on three sides
• fol. 14r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 14r — Border on three sides
• fol. 14v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 15v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 16v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 18r — Note, in English, in a later hand
• fol. 18v — Large miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 18v — Border on three sides
• fol. 19r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 19r — Border on three sides
• fol. 24v — Large miniature, the Visitation
• fol. 24v — Border on three sides
• fol. 25r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 25r — Border on three sides
• fol. 30v — Large miniature, Nativity
• fol. 30v — Border on three sides
• fol. 31r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 31r — Border on three sides
• fol. 33v — Large miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 33v — Border on three sides
• fol. 34r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 34r — Border on three sides
• fol. 35v — Large miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 35v — Border on three sides
• fol. 36r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 36r — Border on three sides
• fol. 37v — Large miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 37v — Border on three sides
• fol. 38r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 38r — Border on three sides
• fol. 39v — Large miniature, Massacre of the Innocents
• fol. 39v — Border on three sides
• fol. 40r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 40r — Border on three sides
• fol. 42v — Large miniature, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 42v — Border on three sides
• fol. 43r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 43r — Border on three sides
• fol. 45v — Large miniature, King David in the Temple
• fol. 45v — Border on three sides
• fol. 46r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 46r — Border on three sides
• fol. 51v — Illuminated initial K
• fol. 54v — Large miniature, Virgin in a nimbus, standing on the crescent moon
• fol. 54v — Border on three sides
• fol. 55r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 55r — Border on three sides
• fol. 57v — Large miniature, Saint Andrew
• fol. 57v — Border on three sides
• fol. 58r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 58r — Border on three sides
• fol. 60v — Large miniature, Saint Anthony
• fol. 60v — Border on three sides
• fol. 61r — Border on three sides
• fol. 62v — Large miniature, Saint Christopher
• fol. 62v — Border on three sides
• fol. 63r — Border on three sides
• fol. 64v — Large miniature, Saint Barbara
• fol. 64v — Border on three sides
• fol. 65r — Border on three sides
• fol. 67v — Large miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 67v — Border on three sides
• fol. 68r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 68r — Border on three sides
• fol. 69v — Large miniature, Raising of Lazarus
• fol. 69v — Border on three sides
• fol. 70r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 70r — Border on three sides
• fol. 85v — Small miniature, funeral
• fol. 85v — Border on three sides
• fol. 86v — Small miniature, Imago Pietatis / Christ as the Man of Sorrows
• fol. 86v — Border on three sides
• fol. 87v — Small miniature, Christ Child on a cushion
• fol. 87v — Border on three sides
• fol. 88r — Border on three sides
• fol. 88v — Large illuminated initial I