To understand the Hours of the Virgin, we must go back to the Annunciation (the moment Mary is informed by archangel Gabriel that she will give birth to God’s child). Prime was at daybreak, Terce three hours later, and Sext around midday.Ĭentral to these prayers is the Hours of the Virgin, which gained popularity through devotion to the Virgin. Matins was at approximately 2am and Compline at the end of the day, around 7pm. At least in theory, monks or nuns would gather in chapel from break of day to late at night to pray the canonical hours every day at Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline.īooks of Hours adapt this monastic custom into a set of prayers for lay people at home or going about their daily routines at church or in town. These hours represent the regimented routine of daily prayer in monastic practice. The phrase Book of Hours comes from the eight “hours” of the day. 53.The Annunciation from The Hours of Le Goux de la Berchère in Latin and French circa 1420. A catalogue of works in the National Art Library from the eleventh to the early twentieth century, with a complete account of the George Reid Collection. Western Illuminated Manuscripts.Victoria and Albert Museum. Manuscripts, markets and the transition to print in late medieval Brittany. In The culture and political legacy of Anne de Bretagne, ed. 'Penitence, motherhood and Passion devotion'.
'The book trade in and beyond the Duchy of Brittany'. A propos de la circulation et de la dissémination des modèles'. Recycling manuscript, texts and images, ed. 'Anne peperit Mariam, Elizabeth Johannem, Maria Christum: images of childbirth in late-medieval manuscripts'. An account based on the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Illuminated manuscripts and their makers. and Reynaud, N., Les Manuscrits à peintures en France, 1440-1520, Paris, 1993.p. M.C.Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. La Bretagne au temps des ducs, catalogue of an exhibition held at the Abbey de Daoulas, June-Oct.Der Jouvenal-Maler, der Maler des Genfer Boccaccio und die Anfänge Jean Fouquets. Harthan, J.Books of Hours and their owners.Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries I. V with notices of manuscripts by Léopold Delisle and Auguste Molinier.pp. La collection Spitzer, Antiquité, Moyen Âge, Renaissance.Open: Width 230 x Height 130 x Depth 184mm Sewn on seven double thongs of white leather, attached to the boards with channels and plugs.Ĭlosed: Length 184 x Width 125 x Depth 74mm Spine of eight compartments, each with the stamp of a diamond-shaped tool at the centre. Calf over wooden boards bevelled from the outside, blind-stamped with nine tools (four-petal rosette within a circle and a cross, dragon’s head, heart surmounted by an open three-pointed crown, 2-legged and crouched dragon, standing rabbit, running 4-legged dragon, fleur-de-lys between two stars, sitting hare, running dogs). The manuscript also comprises foliated border ornaments, line endings and letter-shape initials.īinding: ca. 60v, 73v, 84r, 99v, 125r).Ģ3 half-page miniatures representing the Apostles, Virgin, Holy Trinity or Saints (ff. Most are composite images but some are unified compositions comprising several incidents to form a narrative (ff. birth of the Virgin, Flight to Egypt, Pentecost, Passion, Last Judgment etc. 135v) and the rest from the New Testament (e.g.
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Each is also accompanied by an illumination of the corresponding zodiacal signs.ġ2 full page miniatures with one scene from the Old Testament (Moses on f.
harvesting in July and slaughtering pigs in December (ff. 223r-225v: Prayers added on a separate gathering.į.227v: Prayer added in a late 15th- or early 16th-century hand.ĭecoration: 12 miniatures in the calendar representing the occupation associated with each month, i.e. 144r-199v: Office of the Dead, Use of Paris.įf. 99r-124r: Penitential Psalms with litany followed by petitions.įf. 33r-98r: Hours of the Virgin, Use of Paris, with rubrics in Latin.įf. 1r-6v: Calendar, full, in French, of conventional Parisian aspect. i-v (original 15th-century parchment, ff.ii-v ruled for text) + 228 ff.įf.
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