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Source Description
This Book of Hours was completed ca. 1320-30 in the region of Ghent. The presence of the Hours of the Cross attributed to Pope John XXII (1316-1334) provides evidence that helps date the manuscript. The text is written in three languages, with the main text in Latin, Flemish prayers on fols. 123r-125v and fols. 131r-141r, and French rubrics throughout. Made for a woman portrayed kneeling before the cross on fol. 116v, this manuscript is decorated with twenty-four extant historiated initials and drolleries for each canonical hour.
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Document identity
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14383
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Book of Hours
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Source metadata
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14383
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normalized
title
Book of Hours
description
This Book of Hours was completed ca. 1320-30 in the region of Ghent. The presence of the Hours of the Cross attributed to Pope John XXII (1316-1334) provides evidence that helps date the manuscript. The text is written in three languages, with the main text in Latin, Flemish prayers on fols. 123r-125v and fols. 131r-141r, and French rubrics throughout. Made for a woman portrayed kneeling before the cross on fol. 116v, this manuscript is decorated with twenty-four extant historiated initials and drolleries for each canonical hour.
provenance
Jacobi Santens Cercenasen, 16th century [1]. Léon Gruel, Paris, late 19th-early 20th century [2]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Note on fol. 98r: ""ad usum mei Jacobi Santens Cercenasen et omnium amicorum"" and ""emi eiusdem Jacobi santens ego ..."" (effaced)[2] No. 936 on front pastedown
date
1320-1330 (Gothic)
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en
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illuminated manuscripts
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2
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2
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import
dimensions
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cm
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14.8
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10.3
dimensionsRaw
Folio H: 5 13/16 × W: 4 1/16 in. (14.8 × 10.3 cm); Closed H: 6 1/8 × W: 4 1/2 × D: 1 11/16 in. (15.5 × 11.5 × 4.3 cm); H of opening at 82v-83r: 3 3/4 × W: 7 1/2 × D: 6 1/8 in. (9.5 × 19 × 15.5 cm)
Source extras
med
ink and pigments on parchment bound between boards covered with velvet
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Page inventory
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1
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photo
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2
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photo
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