"HAHN, AUGUST. - ASKB 535.MareMagnum
"LIVRE D'HEURES - (BOOK OF HOURS).MareMagnum
Illuminated Latin manuscript on vellum - complete and early fifteenth-century illuminated Book of Hours illuminated in Northern France or Belgium for use in personal devotions, most likely for someone with ties to Flanders. - [BEAUTIFUL BOOK OF HOURS FROM CA 1430-35]
(Northern France/Belgium, ca. 1430-35). Small 4to. Binding measuring 19,5 x 14 cm. Leaves measuring 19 x 13,5 cm. In a beatiful 16th century full limp morocco binding with rich gilding. Spine with gilt sea dragons to compartments, and boards with broad ornamental gilt borders, gilt corner ornamentations and gilt armorial centre-pieces with a lion holding a rose. All edges gilt. The spine is worn, but not weak, and the gilding on the spine is vague. Corners worn, some overall wear, and worm tracts that have resulted in tiny worm holes to outside of boards, but generally in very good condition. Inside of boards and end-papers with more extensive worm tracts. A nineteenth century inscription to front free end-paper reading ""offizio della B(eate) V(irgine) scritto in Germania"". Internally in excellent condition, overall very nice, clean, and bright. First leaf of the calander with a bit of soiling and two ink spots. One ornamental border (f. 13r) with light soiling and the hen in the right side of the border sligthly wiped out. Leaf (65) with an elaborate border also a bit soiled and darkened. Otherwise the borders and the initials are generally in splendid condition with very bright, unbroken gold. The first two leaves and the last quire have small, single worm holes to the blank margins. Wide borders. 98 ff., with 18 lines of text to a page, in Gothic script, in red and black ink. All texts, including rubics, in Latin. Exquisitely and elaborately illuminated with 12 elaborately decorated large ornamental borders in gold and various colours, 12 large initials elaborately illuminated in gold and colours (3,5 x 4,5 cm) and ca. 170 initials in gold and colours (ca. 1x2 cm), as well as numerous smaller initials and ornamentations in gold and different colours. No full-page miniatures, but fully complete. (For further details about the decoration, see below, in the note). Contents: Calendar (ff.1r-12v) with universal and local feast days of the liturgical year, followed by the Hours of the Holy Cross (ff. 13r-18v), the Hours of the Holy Spirit (ff. 19r-22v), the Hours of the Virgin (ff. 23r-128v), the Seven Penitential Psalms (ff.65r-72v), the Litany of Saints (ff. 73r-75r, followed by petitions of the three types, Ab, Per, and Ut, ff. 75v-76r and preces (Kyrie eleyson, f. 76r), Collects (ff. 76r-76v), the Office of the Dead (ff. 77r-98r) and the Collect “Partem beate resurrectionis“ (f. 98r).
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