MS 32 Radnor Hours, Use of Rome
Title
Radnor Hours, Use of RomeFunders
- Council on Library and Information Resources
Call number
MS 32(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)
Alternate identifiers
Publisher
Bryn Mawr College LibraryLanguage
LatinOrigin
Mid-15th century
- Place
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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 mmFoliation
Modern foliation in pencil, upper right rectoCollation
1 (6), 2 (8, -8), 3-9 (8), 10 (8, -8)Support
ParchmentBinding
Fifteenth-century original binding, leather over oak boards with remnants of clasps on upper boardLayout
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
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
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- Text
- These images and the content of Bryn Mawr College Library, MS 32: Radnor Hours, Use of Rome 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/
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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
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