Collection ID: 0007 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Other related names

• Hudnut, Alexander M. (Alexander Malew), former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/16457417)
• Honeyman, Robert B., former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/78623406)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lehigh Codex 19
(Bethlehem, United States, Lehigh University, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• Hirsch: MS Hirsh 19
• Accession: 14o59

Publisher

Special Collections

Language

Latin; Castilian, Spanish

Origin

Place

Flanders

Summary

This Book of Hours of the Use of Rome appears to have been produced in Flanders for a member of the Ayala family in Spain, as it contains a coat of arms identifiable with this Spanish family (fol. 3r: Argent, two wolves passant sable in pale, a bordure gules charged with eight saltires or), as well as Spanish rubrics for a series of fifteen unusual prayers that appear to be associated with Giles of Rome (fols. 109r-188v, beginning lacking), and an inquisition verification inscription on fol. 181v, dated to 1573. The manuscript does not have a calendar; it begins with the Hours of the Virgin followed by the Hours of the Virgin for Advent. These sections are followed by the Mass of the Virgin and the Obsecro te and O intemerata prayers. After several blank folios, the manuscript continues with a series of fifteen prayers that can be associated with Giles of Rome, the beginning of which is lacking. The penultimate section consists of the Office of the Dead. Finally, the book ends with a prayer of Saint Augustine, "O Dulcissime domine iesu christe." The book lacks any significant illumination apart from initials at each of the major sections and a strewn-flower border with coat-of-arms on fol. 3r.

Extent

Iii+181+iii; 120 x 90 mm bound to 123 x 94 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (2), 2-14 (8), 15 (8, -3 -4), 16 (6, +1 +2), 17-23 (8), 24 (7, +1)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

One horizontal catchword in lower right corner at fol. 106v

Binding

Modern stamped green calf with clamshell and slipcase; "HEURES" stamped on spine

Layout

One column of fourteen lines, ruled in brown ink; written area: 64 x 48 mm

Decoration

One strewn-flower border with marginal coat-of-arms on fol. 3r

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Produced in Flanders for the Spanish market, presumably for a member of the Ayala family as per coat-of-arms on fol. 3r; in Spain in 1573 as per inquisition inscription on fol. 181v; Alexander Malew Hudnut's blue leather bookplate, inside front cover: "Alex. M. Hudnut" with gryphon, shield, and tiger; his sale, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, 3 November 1926, lot 388; Robert B. Honeyman, Jr.; his gift to Lehigh University in 1959
   

Keywords

• 16th century
• Flemish
• Flanders
• Book of Hours
• Illumination
• Christian
• Devotion
• Private devotional text
• Spain
• Spanish

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 3r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome
• fol. 78r — Hours of the Virgin for Advent
• fol. 90r — Mass of the Virgin
• fol. 99r — Obescro te
• fol. 104r — O intemerata
• fol. 109r — Fifteen prayers associated with Giles of Rome (beginning lacking)
• fol. 119r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 175r — Prayer of Saint Augustine, O Dulcissime domine iesu christe
• fol. 181v — Inquisition inscription

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate: Alexander M. Hudnut
• fol. 3r — Decorated border with plants, flowers, and bird, with decorated initials in text
• fol. 3r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 3r — Coat-of-arms
• fol. 25v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 39r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 44r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 49r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 53v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 58r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 67r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 78r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 90r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 99r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 104r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 119r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 175r — Illuminated initial O