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Detailed record for Sloane 2468
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| Part 1 |
ff. 2-185 |
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| Title |
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (the 'Hours of the Umfray Family') |
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| Origin |
France, Central (Paris) |
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| Date |
c. 1420 |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Artists |
Attributed to the Master of the Royal Alexander who is probably identical to the Harvard Hannibal Master (see Backhouse 2004). |
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| Decoration |
16 full-page miniatures, accompanied by large decorated initials and full foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 32v, 51, 57v, 62v, 67v, 72v, 87, 115, 163, 180, 184); 1 miniature at the beginning of Compline in the Hours of the Virgin missing (after f. 79). Smaller decorated initials with foliate extensions into the inner margins, in colours and gold; all text pages with decorated initials with partial foliate borders, in colours and gold. Small initials and line-fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
200 x 140 (100 x 65) |
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| Part 2 |
188-239 |
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| Title |
Psalms of the Passion, etc. |
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| Origin |
England |
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| Date |
2nd quarter of the 15th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Scribe |
A different scribe than in the first part |
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| Artists |
The English artist is imitating the French style of the first part; therefore this part was probably added slightly later. |
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| Decoration |
3 full-page miniatures, accompanied by large decorated initials, the third including a nun in prayer, and full foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 188, 205, 227v). 14 large historiated initials, accompanied by partial foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 229v, 230v, 231v, 232, 233, 233v, 234, 234v, 235, 235v, 236, 236v, 237, 238). Smaller decorated initials with foliate extensions into the inner margins, in colours and gold; all text pages with decorated initials with partial foliate borders, in colours and gold. Small initials and line-fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
200 x 140 (100 x 65) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 239 (+ 1 original leaf after f. 187; + 4 paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 4 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Erased entries in the calendar commemorating the marriage of John and Eleanor Umfray in 1453 and the birth of their daughter Joan in the following year: 'Nata fuit Johanna primogenisa Johannis Umvray in ao r. r. h. sexti xxxiio' (f. 2), and 'Nupcie sacre fuerunt …ser Johannem Umfray et Alianorem uxorem eius in anno regis henrici sexti xxxano primo' (f. 5v).
Inscriptions in English, 15th-century (f. 1r-v).
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector.
Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. |
| Notes |
Added prayer in the first part by the scribe of the second part (ff. 185-187v). |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 2268-2496 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 2468 [available in The British Library Manuscripts Reading Room].
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 17.
Janet Backhouse, Books of Hours (London: British Library, 1985), p. 52, fig. 51.
Janet Backhouse, Illumination from Books of Hours (London: British Library, 2004), fig. 4.
Gregory T. Clark, Art in a Time of War (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2016), p. 288. |
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Part 1
ff. 2-185 |
| Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (the 'Hours of the Umfray Family') |
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f. 22
Annunciation |
f. 22
Detail |
f. 32v
Visitation |
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f. 32v
Detail |
f. 51
Nativity |
f. 51
Detail |
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ff. 114v-115
Requiem mass |
f. 115
Requiem mass |
f. 163
Burial |
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f. 227v
Crucifixion |
f. 227v
Detail |
f. 227v
Detail |
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