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Title

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ("Streeter-Piccard Hours")

Other related names

• Streeter, Ruth, 1895-1990, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/1495772)
• Piccard, Jeannette, 1895-1981, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/16488193)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 27
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms27.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Flanders, Belgium

Summary

This is a Book of Hours from the second quarter of the fifteenth century from Flanders, use of Sarum. There are fourteen full-page miniatures with borders on three sides, which include the Passion cycle for the Hours of Virgin and of Saints Michael, Barbara, and John the Baptist for the suffrages, as well as miniatures of the Last Judgment for the Penitential Psalms, a Funeral Service for the Office of the dead. The Raising of Souls to God for the Commendation of Souls, and Christ with Instruments of the Passion for the Psalms of the Passion.

Notes

• Two prayers, in French, in two different hands on fol. 8v
   
• The fourteen illuminations in this text are painted in the style of the Master(s) of Otto van Moerdrecht (fl. c. 1420-50); the prior identification with Nicolas Brouwer (because of the "b" stamp) has been shown to be incorrect; we are indebted to James D. Farquhar for his helpful comments on this text and its illuminations; the illustrated leaves, with the possible exception of Saint Barbara on f. 9v, and the Funeral Mass on f. 63v, include the artist's stamp associated with this Utrecht workshop, a red circle on which a gothic b may be discerned, in the lower right corner directly beneath the frame of the illustration; the illustrations in this manuscript are unusual since, unlike most of the extant examples of stamped illustrations which are separate additions added to a text, many of these images are an integral part of the text
   

Extent

I+97+i; 186 x 140 mm bound to 190 x 148 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-2 (6), 3 (9, +1), 4-10 (8), 11 (10), 12 (8), 13 (2)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Some catchwords right of center in lower margin, verso

Binding

Early eigthteenth-century gold-tooled French crimson morocco; fully gilt spine and edges; spine stamped in gold: "HEURES MANUSC"

Layout

Single column, twenty-five lines, ruled in ink with single vertical bounding lines, and double upper horizontal bounding lines full across; written area: 122 x 76 mm; Calendar thirty-four lines, four columns, single bounding lines except for double upper horizontal bounding lines

Decoration

Fourteen full-page miniatures with borders on three sides; borders on top and bottom throughout; ten- to thirteen-line illuminated initials beginning each section; six-line illuminated initials I, outside the written area, throughout; two-line illuminated initials and 1-line initials with red penwork flourishes throughout; rubrication in red

Script

Gothic -- semi-quadrata

Related resources

• Snyder, James, "'Where Subtle Workmanship will Brightly Shine'-- Late Gothic Books of Hours in the Canaday Library," Bryn Mawr Now 8.4 (April 1981).
• Farquhar, James Douglas, "Identity in an Anonymous Age: Bruges Manuscript Illuminators and Their Signs," Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 11 (1980), pp. 371-383.
• Sotheby-Park Bernet Catalogue, Monday, 21 June 1982: Twenty Western Illuminated Manuscripts from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Century from the Library at Donaueschingen, #15. Book of Hours with Printed Initials," pp. 95-99.
• Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University, v. 2 (1987) pp. 102-106.

Genres

• Books of hours

Keywords

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Bryn Mawr College Library, MS 27: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ("Streeter-Piccard 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

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  To the extent possible under law, Bryn Mawr College, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Bryn Mawr College Library MS 27: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ("Streeter-Piccard Hours"). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 8r — Suffrage to Saint Michael, followed by a prayer
• fol. 10r — Suffrage to Saint Barbara
• fol. 12r — Suffrage to Saint John the Baptist
• fol. 14r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Sarum
• fol. 41r — Suffrages and Prayers including O intemerata and Obsecro te
• fol. 54r — Penitential Psalms and Gradual Psalms, followed by Litany and prayers
• fol. 64r — Office of the Dead, followed by Commendation of Souls
• fol. 87r — Psalms of the Passion
• fol. 90r — Psalter of Saint Jerome

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notations in pencil, some erased
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notation in pencil
• fol. 1r — Notation in pencil
• fol. 7v — Full page miniature, Saint Michael Weighing Souls
• fol. 7v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 8r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 8r — Horizontal spray borders
• fol. 9v — Full page miniature, Saint Barbara
• fol. 9v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 10r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 10r — Horizontal spray borders
• fol. 11v — Full page miniature, Saint John the Baptist
• fol. 11v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 12r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 12r — Horizontal spray borders
• fol. 13v — Full page miniature, Virgin and Child
• fol. 13v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 14r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 14r — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 18v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 18v — Partial bar border, horizontal spray borders
• fol. 26v — Full page miniature, Christ before Pilate
• fol. 26v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 27r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 27r — Partial bar border, horizontal spray borders
• fol. 29v — Large miniature, Flagellation of Christ
• fol. 29v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 30r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 30r — Partial bar border, horizontal spray borders
• fol. 31v — Full page miniature, Christ Carrying the Cross
• fol. 31v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 32r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 32r — Partial bar border, horizontal spray borders
• fol. 33v — Full page miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 33v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 34r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 34r — Partial bar border, horizontal spray borders
• fol. 35v — Full page miniature, Deposition
• fol. 35v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 36r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 36r — Partial bar border, horizontal spray borders
• fol. 37v — Full page miniature, Entombment
• fol. 37v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 38r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 38r — Partial bar border, horizontal spray borders
• fol. 47r — Drawing in pen, dragon?
• fol. 53v — Large miniature, Last Judgment
• fol. 53v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 54r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 54r — Partial bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 63v — Large miniature, Funeral Service
• fol. 63v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 64r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 64r — Partial bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 77v — Full page miniature, Souls carried to heaven by angels
• fol. 77v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 78r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 78r — Partial bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 86v — Large miniature, Resurrection of Christ
• fol. 86v — Full bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 87r — Partial bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 87r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 90r — Illuminated initial I
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notations in pencil, some erased
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notations in pencil