Book of Hours, use of the congregation of Windesheim : [manuscript]
Creator
Catholic Church
Contributor
Firmin-Didot, Ambroise, 1790-1876, former owner Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931, former owner Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 1131
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Description
ff. 1-120v. [Book of Hours]: f. 1v: coat of arms; ff. 2-11v: Calendar, with the months run on; f. 12r-v, blank; ff. 13-19v: Short hours of the Cross and prayers; ff. 20-52v: Hours of the Virgin, use of the congregation of Windesheim; ff. 53-65v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 66-84v: [f. 66, blank], Office of the Dead with 3 lessons at matins; ff. 85-107: Prayers in Latin including the votive mass of the Virgin, the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata (masculine forms); ff. 107v-114v: Suffrages of one's guardian angel, Andrew, Stephen, Christopher [masculine forms], Martin, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, Margaret, All Saints; ff. 115-120v: Prayers for various occasions. Book of Hours, written perhaps in the Ghent-Bruges area as suggested by the style of the miniatures, but liturgically intended for someone connected with a house of the Windesheim congregation. A reference in an indulgence on f. 93 to Pope Sixtus IV indicates a date certainly after 1471. Although most prayers present masculine forms, one, on f. 116v, refers to "me famulam tuam." Span folios: ff. 1-120v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1⁴(+1) 2⁶(+7, f. 12) 3⁸(-3, after f. 14) 4-8⁸ 9⁶(through f. 65) 10⁸(+1, f. 66) 11⁶ 12⁴(through f. 84) 13-14⁸ 15⁸ 16⁸ 17⁸8(-7, 8). Ruled space, 103 x 70 mm; 20 long lines, ruled in light purple ink; some pricking visible in the lower margin. Written in a gothic book hand. Decoration: Two full page illuminations, both on the versos of added singletons. Six large miniatures above 6 lines of text in the style of the artists of the Grimani Breviary. Sixteen smaller miniatures , 45-55 x 43-50 mm. Miniatures for the suffrages, ca. 40-30 x 30-25 mm. 3-, 2- and 1-line initials, in grey highlighted and decorated in white against gold-decorated maroon grounds; ribbon line fillers in the same colors. Rubrics in red. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/13/2009. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound in 17th century Belgian red morocco with gold tooling; blue silk endpapers; gilt edges. HM 1131. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Extent
ff. ii + i + 120 + i + ii : parchment ; 114 x 153 mm.
The coat of arms on f. 1v bears the elaborate achievement of Margaretha van Bergen, consort of Floris van Egmond. The representation presumably dates from before 1500 when Floris van Egmond's father died, since the Egmond arms are here differenced with a label of six points argent; the representation is also considered to be before 1505 when Floris van Egmond was elected to the order of the Golden Fleece, the collar of that order is not present. Nor could these be the arms of Margaretha's and Floris' son, Maximilian, since she was not an heiress. The arms are, per pale, I, quarterly, 1 and 4, gules three chevrons or (Egmond; Rietstap, vol. 2, pl. 257); 2 and 3, gules one fesse counter-embattled argent (Arkel; Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 66); over all, or a saltire checky argent and gules (Isselstein; Rietstap, vol. 3, pl. 258); II, per fesse, 1, per pale, sable a lion rampant or (Brabant; vol. 1, pl. 300); and paley gules and or (Berthout; Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 196); 2, vert three mascles argent (Bautersem; Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 146). This impaling, for Bergen-op-Zoom, in Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 185. Belonged to Ambroise Firmin Didot; his sale, Paris, 12 June 1882 n. 18 to Baron de Beurnonville; later owned by William K. Bixby of St. Louis; acquired by Henry E. Huntington through G. D. Smith in August 1918.
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