Accession number
MS W.28
Object title
Book of hours (MS W.28).
Created
Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1460-1470.
Binding
18th-century(?) red morocco blind and gold tooled, one clasp, in 1963 box by JPW labeled: Heures of B.M.V. 1480.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia Parker Wightman, 1994.
Description
244 leaves (1 column, 13 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 55 x 44 mm.
Provenance
Inscription on front pastedown: iste liber est meus post mortem Nerio? Nescio? Cujus Cru...; Wilhelmus Antonius Versen 1764 (inscription on fol. 1); purchased by Julia Parker Wightman in 1963; JPW 4902; Julia Parker Wightman Bequest in 1994.
Notes
Ms. book of hours, calendar for Bruges; written and illuminated in Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1460-1470.
Decoration: 11 full-page inserted miniatures with full borders, 13 illuminated initials with full borders, a line drawing in brown ink (fol. 239) depicting a full-length frontal figure holding a palm leaf(?) and a cross(?).
Artist: workshop of William Vrelant.
An accompanying note in the manuscript reads: "For Morgan's choice '92 John Plummer".
Decoration: 11 full-page inserted miniatures with full borders, 13 illuminated initials with full borders, a line drawing in brown ink (fol. 239) depicting a full-length frontal figure holding a palm leaf(?) and a cross(?).
Artist: workshop of William Vrelant.
An accompanying note in the manuscript reads: "For Morgan's choice '92 John Plummer".
Contents
fol. 1r-1v: Pastedown -- fol. 2r: Later writing -- fol. 2v: Wightman inventory number -- fols. 3r-5v: Blank -- fols. 6r-17v: Calendar -- fols. 18r: Blank -- fols. 18v-29r: Hours of the Cross -- fols. 29v-30r: Blank -- fols. 30v-35v: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 36v-55r: Mass of the Virgin -- fol. 55v-56r: Blank -- fols. 56v-165v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 166r-167r: Blank -- fols. 167v-195v: Seven Penitential Psalms, Litany -- fols. 196r-196v: Blank -- fols. 197r-234v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 235r-247r: Blank -- fol. 247v Later writing.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Century
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