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- Manuscript codex. As referenced by Jim Marrow Report: Book of Hours with an Office of the Dead of Autun Use., Collation: 101 leaves in 13 quires of 8 (except 1__, 2_, 8_, 13_). No catchwords, No signatures. Folio numbers in pencil. Much variety in emphatic rubrication., Decoration: Larger 3-to-4 line initials in blue OR burgundy upon a gilded square with white floral tracery introducing chapters. Smaller 1-to-2 line gilt capitals upon blue and burgundy square are used to introduce sentences. In addition, five miniatures are found, and bordered with floral acanthus with accompanying pheasantry. Much variety in emphatic rubrication. Miniature illustrations: 1. (fol. 25r) The Annunciation (Hours of the Virgin, Matins). 2. (fol. 63r) The Crucifixion (Hours of the Cross). 3. (fol. 67r) The Pentecost (Hours of the Holy Spirit). 4. (fol. 70r) David at Prayer (Seven Penitential Psalms). 5. (fol. 85r) Funeral Scene (Office of the Dead)., Binding: Modern red morocco with marbled rose endpapers., Script: In one hand of Gothic cursive called the French Batarde Script, notable is the lowercase g, which is as a minuscule y, with a horizontal bar extending through both ascending strokes.
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- Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 5 leaves (2 bifolia and 1 leaf). Leaf measurements differ., Origin: England., Lettering: Gothic script (textualis rotunda)., Decoration: Various decorated initials on each leaf. Pigments used are red, a blue ink that bleeds through the parchment, a very light blue, and possibly a gray pigment for preparatory drawing. 118a, recto: Letter T in red with preparatory decoration lightly visible in gray. Letter D is in blue and red, with a red inner decoration. Letter C in blue with red decoration inside. Both D and C have an outer red flourish extending downwards vertically. Text in black and red ink. Verso only contains some red ink and mostly black ink. 118b, recto: Letter E in red with preparatory inner decoration and flourish. Letter P is blue with inner and outer red flourish. Letter A has preparatory flourish within and around it, and the letter is in red. Letter I is blue with red flourish. Text is in black and red ink. Verso: letter O is red with light gray preparatory flourish. Letter S is blue with red inner and outer flourish. Text is in black and red ink. 118c, recto: Letter P is in red with faint blue inner and outer flourish. Red E with minimal, faint blue flourish. Letter I in red with faint blue flourish. Letters F and I in blue with no flourish. Text is in red and black ink. Verso: blue A with minimal flourish in red. C is blue with red inner and outer flourish. A in red with minimal blue flourish. Letter Q in red with blue inner and outer flourish. Letter F in red with minimal blue flourish. Letter A in blue with no flourish. Letter I in red with blue flourish. Text is in black and red. 118d, recto: letter I in blue with red flourish, and another letter I in red with blue flourish. Ink in red and black. Verso: blue D with red inner and outer flourish. Letter F in red with minimal blue flourish. Letter I in blue with red flourish. 118e, recto: letter C in blue with red inner and outer flourish. Letter M in red with inner and outer blue flourish. Letter F in blue with minimal red flourish. Letter I in red with blue flourish. Text is in black and red ink. Verso, letter I in blue with red flourish. Text in black and red ink., Binding: Disbound.
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- Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 5 leaves (2 bifolia and 1 leaf). Leaf measurements differ., Origin: England., Lettering: Gothic script (textualis rotunda)., Decoration: Various decorated initials on each leaf. Pigments used are red, a blue ink that bleeds through the parchment, a very light blue, and possibly a gray pigment for preparatory drawing. 118a, recto: Letter T in red with preparatory decoration lightly visible in gray. Letter D is in blue and red, with a red inner decoration. Letter C in blue with red decoration inside. Both D and C have an outer red flourish extending downwards vertically. Text in black and red ink. Verso only contains some red ink and mostly black ink. 118b, recto: Letter E in red with preparatory inner decoration and flourish. Letter P is blue with inner and outer red flourish. Letter A has preparatory flourish within and around it, and the letter is in red. Letter I is blue with red flourish. Text is in black and red ink. Verso: letter O is red with light gray preparatory flourish. Letter S is blue with red inner and outer flourish. Text is in black and red ink. 118c, recto: Letter P is in red with faint blue inner and outer flourish. Red E with minimal, faint blue flourish. Letter I in red with faint blue flourish. Letters F and I in blue with no flourish. Text is in red and black ink. Verso: blue A with minimal flourish in red. C is blue with red inner and outer flourish. A in red with minimal blue flourish. Letter Q in red with blue inner and outer flourish. Letter F in red with minimal blue flourish. Letter A in blue with no flourish. Letter I in red with blue flourish. Text is in black and red. 118d, recto: letter I in blue with red flourish, and another letter I in red with blue flourish. Ink in red and black. Verso: blue D with red inner and outer flourish. Letter F in red with minimal blue flourish. Letter I in blue with red flourish. 118e, recto: letter C in blue with red inner and outer flourish. Letter M in red with inner and outer blue flourish. Letter F in blue with minimal red flourish. Letter I in red with blue flourish. Text is in black and red ink. Verso, letter I in blue with red flourish. Text in black and red ink., Binding: Disbound.
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- Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger. Two leaves from a manuscript book of hours, with illuminations depicting the tree of Jesse and the transfiguration of Jesus., Lettering: Written in an Italian humanistic bookhand., Leaf MS 113a: (r): International/Neo-Gothic style architectural frame in gold leaf, washed vermillion and grisaille. Two putti in grisaille with gold leaf wings are on the top left and right of the frame, and a final central putti in the same technique at the bottom. Each side of the frame has one grisaille child-figure. Jesse rests on a blue bed decorated in gold. Jesse is robed in gray and blue. The tree is fully in gold leaf with black outlines. There are six figures on each side, with the Virgin Mary and child at the top center. The twelve figures are variously clothed using blue, vermillion, gold leaf, and green pigments. The Virgin Mary's mandorla and crown are in gold leaf. (v): Border around text is in gold leaf with red outlines. The main text is in black, with the bottom four lines in red. The tree branch and final word Oratio are in gold leaf. Leaf MS 113b: (r): Border is fully in gold leaf, with a heavily foliated decoration in red, green, and blue. A bird can be found towards the bottom left, and a winged insect (a moth perhaps?) sits towards the bottom right corner. The illumination is further framed in an acanthus order column and arch frame in gold leaf with red borders. Christ stands center with a white rob, and his skin, halo and mandorla are in gold leaf. Moses, top left, is robed in white and blue and holds the commandments in gold leaf. Elijah, top right, is robed in black and white with gold leaf accents. The bottom three figures, John, James, and Peter (order unknown) are clothed in blue, white, and gold leaf. They are situated against a green landscape and blue skyline. The text underneath the illumination has a illuminated initial I in blue against a red and gold leaf background. The text is faded black. (v): The border around the text is gold leaf with red outlines. An illuminated O begins the text. It is blue, with a gold leaf background and a red flower in the center. The text is in a faded black. The tree branch and final four lines are in gold leaf., Binding: Disbound.
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- Manuscript codex. As referenced by Jim Marrow Report: Book of Hours with an Office of the Dead of Autun Use., Collation: 101 leaves in 13 quires of 8 (except 1__, 2_, 8_, 13_). No catchwords, No signatures. Folio numbers in pencil. Much variety in emphatic rubrication., Decoration: Larger 3-to-4 line initials in blue OR burgundy upon a gilded square with white floral tracery introducing chapters. Smaller 1-to-2 line gilt capitals upon blue and burgundy square are used to introduce sentences. In addition, five miniatures are found, and bordered with floral acanthus with accompanying pheasantry. Much variety in emphatic rubrication. Miniature illustrations: 1. (fol. 25r) The Annunciation (Hours of the Virgin, Matins). 2. (fol. 63r) The Crucifixion (Hours of the Cross). 3. (fol. 67r) The Pentecost (Hours of the Holy Spirit). 4. (fol. 70r) David at Prayer (Seven Penitential Psalms). 5. (fol. 85r) Funeral Scene (Office of the Dead)., Binding: Modern red morocco with marbled rose endpapers., Script: In one hand of Gothic cursive called the French Batarde Script, notable is the lowercase g, which is as a minuscule y, with a horizontal bar extending through both ascending strokes.
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- Manuscript codex. Kalendar ff. 1-12b. The calendar does not include entries for every day of the year, and is approximately half full. Entries in red include St. Agnes, Landoald, Pancras, Boniface, Odulf, Martin, Laurence, Lambert, Remigius and Bavo, Gereon, Willibrord, Lebuin, Nicholas, Thomas, and Steven. St. Donatian was added in a later hand, suggesting the book was not originally made for Bruges usage. Saints such as Agnes, Odulf, Lebuin, and Willibrord point to the use of Utrecht (Lackaff, 1997, p. 3). Names of the months and saints are in a mix of Latin and Dutch. On the versos of January and December are two computation circles, one for finding the Dominical letters in the lunar month of 28 days (f. 1a), and the other for computing the golden number (f. 12r). Each figure includes on its outer, upper right edge the numerals m cccc lxxx iiij dating the ms to 1484 (Lackaff, 1997, p. 3) -- Hours of the Blessed Virgin, ff. 13-52. Compline is followed by 'Salve Regina' f. 49 -- Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany, ff. 53-76 -- Hours of the Cross, ff. 77-91 -- Hours of the Eternal Wisdom, and Trinity, ff. 92-132v -- Prayers to the Virgin and to St. Bernard and St. Thomas, ff. 133-138 -- Prayers of St. James, St. George, St. Augustin, St. Barbara, St. Sebastian, St. Nicholas, St. Anthony, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Margaret; All Saints and Angels, ff. 148-162v -- Vigelia, Office of the Dead etc., ff. 163-203v (with Lessons) -- Seven Prayers of St. Gregory, ff. 205-206., Collation: Quires of 8 plus 2 new flyleaves in front, 3 in back. No titles or signatures, leaves numbered in pencil 1-206., Decoration: Extensively decorated. Illumination is of high quality and originality but shows considerable wear from use., Binding: Modern conservator's binding in style of the period, dark brown leather over wood boards, four raised cords, front and back covers blind-tooled with a grid of vertical and horizontal lines. Gilt edges. Flyleaves of heavy modern paper., Script: Gothic minuscule in brown ink. First two pages have cursive inscription in Latin dated 1603.
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- Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger. Leaf has modern pencil markings, various stains, a small tear at the bottom (not affecting text) and scattered small holes (some affecting text)., Collation: Single sheet., Origin: France., Lettering: Main text: Continental protogothic book script. Marginal annotation in red ink on recto: English protogothic book script. Annotation in black ink on recto may be in a progothic documentary script., Decoration: Recto: Initials in blue, red, yellow ochre, and green. Instances of initial S have red flourishing; initial V has a flourish on left arm; initial D has green flourish; and initial P has red flourish. Verso: Initials in blue, red, and yellow ochre. Initial C has red flourish; initial F has blue flourishing; and initial I has red flourishing. Rubrication on both recto and verso., Annotations in two hands on recto., Binding: Disbound.
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- Manuscript codex. As referenced by Jim Marrow Report: Book of Hours with an Office of the Dead of Autun Use., Collation: 101 leaves in 13 quires of 8 (except 1__, 2_, 8_, 13_). No catchwords, No signatures. Folio numbers in pencil. Much variety in emphatic rubrication., Decoration: Larger 3-to-4 line initials in blue OR burgundy upon a gilded square with white floral tracery introducing chapters. Smaller 1-to-2 line gilt capitals upon blue and burgundy square are used to introduce sentences. In addition, five miniatures are found, and bordered with floral acanthus with accompanying pheasantry. Much variety in emphatic rubrication. Miniature illustrations: 1. (fol. 25r) The Annunciation (Hours of the Virgin, Matins). 2. (fol. 63r) The Crucifixion (Hours of the Cross). 3. (fol. 67r) The Pentecost (Hours of the Holy Spirit). 4. (fol. 70r) David at Prayer (Seven Penitential Psalms). 5. (fol. 85r) Funeral Scene (Office of the Dead)., Binding: Modern red morocco with marbled rose endpapers., Script: In one hand of Gothic cursive called the French Batarde Script, notable is the lowercase g, which is as a minuscule y, with a horizontal bar extending through both ascending strokes.
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- Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 5 leaves (2 bifolia and 1 leaf). Leaf measurements differ., Origin: England., Lettering: Gothic script (textualis rotunda)., Decoration: Various decorated initials on each leaf. Pigments used are red, a blue ink that bleeds through the parchment, a very light blue, and possibly a gray pigment for preparatory drawing. 118a, recto: Letter T in red with preparatory decoration lightly visible in gray. Letter D is in blue and red, with a red inner decoration. Letter C in blue with red decoration inside. Both D and C have an outer red flourish extending downwards vertically. Text in black and red ink. Verso only contains some red ink and mostly black ink. 118b, recto: Letter E in red with preparatory inner decoration and flourish. Letter P is blue with inner and outer red flourish. Letter A has preparatory flourish within and around it, and the letter is in red. Letter I is blue with red flourish. Text is in black and red ink. Verso: letter O is red with light gray preparatory flourish. Letter S is blue with red inner and outer flourish. Text is in black and red ink. 118c, recto: Letter P is in red with faint blue inner and outer flourish. Red E with minimal, faint blue flourish. Letter I in red with faint blue flourish. Letters F and I in blue with no flourish. Text is in red and black ink. Verso: blue A with minimal flourish in red. C is blue with red inner and outer flourish. A in red with minimal blue flourish. Letter Q in red with blue inner and outer flourish. Letter F in red with minimal blue flourish. Letter A in blue with no flourish. Letter I in red with blue flourish. Text is in black and red. 118d, recto: letter I in blue with red flourish, and another letter I in red with blue flourish. Ink in red and black. Verso: blue D with red inner and outer flourish. Letter F in red with minimal blue flourish. Letter I in blue with red flourish. 118e, recto: letter C in blue with red inner and outer flourish. Letter M in red with inner and outer blue flourish. Letter F in blue with minimal red flourish. Letter I in red with blue flourish. Text is in black and red ink. Verso, letter I in blue with red flourish. Text in black and red ink., Binding: Disbound.
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- Manuscript document. Nativity scene at the start of Prime., Collation: 1 disbound leaf., Decoration: Recto: miniature of the Nativity in the stable: Mary in blue robe and cloak, reaching down to infant Jesus. Joseph sits in green tunic, pink cloak, and blue hood, with an ox and an ass. Behind a wattle fence stands a shepherd in red tunic, light yellow cowl, and black hat. Minimal landscape of grass and five trees in background. Text begins with a large illuminated 'D' with a vine motif in blue and red with whitework, on a background of raised gold. Four short lines of text follow, the third with a decorative bar at end, the fourth with a smaller illuminated 'D' in the same colors. Miniature is framed by a bar border in the same colors along left, right, and foot edges. The whole is surrounded by sprays of stylized acanthus in blue and yellow-brown, stems of small blue flowers with leaves in green or raised gold, and fruits in red or pink. Verso: Text page; 6 lines have decorative bars at ends, in blue and red with whitework and raised gold; 5 small and 2 medium initials in same colors; and two sprays of leaves in raised gold in left margin., Binding: Framed in dark purple velvet on recto, purplish-brown leather on verso. Pasted note on frame verso: 134. The Nativity. A leaf from a French Horae at the beginning of Prime. The miniature measures 3 1/2 x 2/58 inches, and depicts the Nativity, with the Virgin, Joseph, a shepherd and an ox and an ass adoring the Child; beneath is an illuminated initial D, the whole being surrounded by a border of the line and leaf type; mounted in a frame of dark red velvet. £12-12-0. 15TH cent., Script: Compact Gothic minuscule in brown ink with some ligatures, abbreviations, and rubrication. Verso: two red words and one red character., Content note: Verso: juvandum me festina. Gloria Patri. Sicut erat. Truncated, resumes with hymn: Ueni cr[e]ator spiritus. Mentes tuouru[m] visita, imple superna gratia que tu cr[e]asti pectora. Memento salutis auctor cp[=quod] nostri c[u]ondam corporis ex illibata virgine nascendo forma[m] sumpseris. Maria mater grati[a]e. Gloria tibi domine. Autha. Beginning of Psalm 1: Maria uirgo psalmus. Beatus uir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum: et in uia peccatorum non stetit.