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Detailed record for Additional 50005
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| Title |
Book of Hours, with the Hours of the Virgin, the Short Hours of the Holy Cross, Prayers and Suffrages (ff. 8-179v), imperfect |
| Origin |
Netherlands, N. (Utrecht or Guelders) |
| Date |
c. 1420 |
| Language |
Dutch |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Artists |
The Master of the Morgan Infancy Cycle |
| Decoration |
66 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 12v, 2v, 3v, 4v, 5v, 6v, 7v, 21v, 22v, 36v, 37v, 45v, 46v, 52v, 53v, 59v, 60v, 66v, 84v, 85v, 86v, 87v, 88v, 89v, 90v, 91v, 92v, 93v, 94v, 97v, 98v, 99v, 100v, 101v, 102v, 105v, 106v, 107v, 108v, 109v, 112v, 113v, 114v, 117v, 118v, 119v, 120v, 123v, 124v, 127v, 128v, 129v, 130v, 131v, 133v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, 139v, 140v, 141v, 142v, 144v, 150v, 155v). 17 large historiated or decorated initials in colours and gold with full or partial borders, some inhabited, or marginal drawings (ff. 8, 23, 38, 47, 54, 61, 67, 75, 95, 103, 110, 115, 121, 125, 132, 145, 151). Initials in gold or blue, some with penwork decoration in the other colour and red. Initials in red or blue, some with penwork decoration in red. Rubrics in red. Highlighting of letters in red. Marginal drawings of people or animals in blue or red (e. g., ff. 42, 48, 49v, 51, 57v, 58, 111, 125v, 126). |
| Dimensions in mm |
125 x 90 (70 x 45) |
| Official foliation |
ff. I + 178 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 at the end; f. 1 is pasted to f. I, a paper flyleaf, with the recto side no longer visible; f. ii is a paper flyleaf pasted to a marbled paper endleaf |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post 1600. 17th century; red morocco over pasteboard; gold tooling; marbled endpapers. |
| Provenance |
Probably written and illuminated c. 1410-1420 at Utrecht or Delft: the Hours of the Virgin are the same as in a printed Book of Hours, dated 1490, in Dutch, said to be of Utrecht use: Printed Books, IA.48220 (see Marrow, The Golden Age(1990)).
Possibly made for the woman represented as kneeling in prayer (with a blank speech scroll) before the Virgin and Child (f. 155v). She or a later owner was probably a sister of the Common Life: a prayer on f. 162r (added at a later stage by Hand 3) opens 'O mijn gemiude suster' ('O my beloved sister') and includes on ff. 164r-164v the words 'soe moecht ghi een ghewarich dienster Christi worden' ('may you become a true servant of Christ'), (see Marrow, The Golden Age (1990)).
A note in pen 'DAW' (with 'SON?' added in pencil) and '9 - 0' (.f. iv recto).
J. and J. Leighton, purchased by Dyson Perrins in 1909.
Charles William Dyson Perrins (b. 1864, d. 1958), book and porcelain collector and benefactor: printed book-labels attached to the pastedown on the upper inside cover, one of them numbered '108' (the manuscript's number within Dyson Perrins' collection); small printed label attached to the pastedown on the lower inside cover, numbered '121' (the manuscript's old number).
Acquired by the British Museum in 1958; £5,000 each was donated by the National Art-Collections Fund and the Pilgrims Trust and £750 was raised by the Friends of the National Libraries for the purchase of this manuscript by private treaty. |
| Notes |
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
The dating of the manuscript to c. 1410-1420 is based on dates suggested for other works from the atelier of the Master of the Morgan Infancy Cycle (see Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting (1953), I: pp. 104-6; Brown, Meredith-Owens and Turner, 'Manuscripts from the Dyson Perrins Collection' (1961), p. 35; Turner, Illuminated Manuscripts (1967), p. 43; Marrow, The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting (1990), pp. 57-58, 63).
Miniatures include 18 of a cycle of the life of Mary, illustrating the Hours of the Virgin, and 44 of the life of Christ and His Passion, in the Hours of the Cross. |
| Select bibliography |
George Warner,Descriptive Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts in the Library of C.W. Dyson Perrins, 2 vols (Oxford: University Press, 1920), I: pp. 251-56, no. 108; II: pls 92-93.
Alexander W. Byvanck and Godefridus J. Hoogewerff, Noord-Nederlandsche Miniaturen in handschriften der 14e, 15e en 16e eeuwen, 2 vols (s-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1925), I: pp. 38-39 (no. 91), figs. 71-73.
Victor Leroquais, Les Livres d'Heures manuscrits de la Bibliothe`que Nationale, 3 vols (Paris: [Ma^con, impr. Protat], 1927), II: p. 342.
T.J. Brown, G.M. Meredith-Owens and Derek H. Turner, 'Manuscripts from the Dyson Perrins Collection', The British Museum Quarterly, 23 (1961), 27-38 (pp. 27-28, 35, pl. 20(a).
Derek H. Turner, Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series V (London: British Museum, 1965), no. 33.
Derek H. Turner, Illuminated Manuscripts Exhibited in the Grenville Library (London: British Museum, 1967), no. 51.
James H. Marrow, 'Dutch Manuscript Illumination before the Master of Catherine of Cleves: the Master of the Morgan Infancy Cycle', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 19 (1968), 51-113 (pp. 53-58, 60, 65, 75-95, 97, 101-07; figs 11, 17-19, 21-27, 29, 31, 37, 39).
Janet M. Backhouse, Books of Hours (London: British Library, 1985), p. 43, pl. 41.
James H. Marrow, 'Prologomena to a New Descriptive Catalogue of Dutch Illuminated Manuscripts', Miscellanea Neerlandica: opstellen voor Dr Jan Deschamps ter gelegenheid van zijn zeventigste verjaardag, ed. by Elly Cockx-Indestege and Frans Hendrickx, 3 vols (Leuven: Peeters, 1987), I: pp. 295-309 (p. 306).
Robert G. Calkins, 'The Question of the Origins of the Master of Catherine of Cleves', in Masters and Miniatures: Proceedings of the Congress on Medieval Manuscript Illumination in the Nothern Netherlands (Utrecht, 10-13 December 1989), ed. by Koert van der Horst and Johann-Christian Klamt (Doornspijk: Davaco, 1991), pp. 327-31 (p. 330 n. 20).
James H. Marrow and others, The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting (New York: George Braziller, 1990), pp. 63-64, no. 14, pl. 14 and figs. 19-20.
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, 'A Metalwork Triptych of the Passion of Christ in the Metropolitan Museum, New York' , Wiener Jahrbuch fur Kunstgeschichte 46/47 (1993/94), 27-36 (pp. 33-34).
The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1956-1965, Part I: Descriptions (London: The British Library, 2000), pp. 203-06.
Celia Fisher Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts (London : British Library, 2004), p. 13.
The hours of Catherine of Cleves: devotion, demons and daily life in the fifteenth century, ed. by Rob Dückers and Ruud Priem (New York: Abrams, 2010) [exhibition catalogue], pp. 166-67, no. 13.
M. Bloem, 'De Meesters van Zweder van Culemborg: Werkplaatspraktijken van een groep Noord-Nederlandse verluchters, ca. 1415-1440' (unpublished PhD thesis: Amsterdam School for Culture and History, 2015) p. 181, n. 24 |
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f. 1v
Joachim's offering |
f. 2v
Annunciation |
f. 3v
Joachim and the angel |
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f. 4v
Joachim and Anna |
f. 5v
Birth of Mary |
f. 6v
Presentation of the Virgin |
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f. 7v
The Marriage of the Virgin |
f. 8
Mother and child |
f. 14
Initials |
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f. 21v
The Visitation |
f. 22v
The Nativity |
f. 23
Initial and border |
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f. 36v
Annunciation to the Shepherds |
f. 37v
The Magi and Herod |
f. 38
Decorated initial |
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f. 45v
Epiphany |
f. 46v
The Presentation in the Temple |
f. 47
Cockerel; goose |
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f. 52v
The Flight into Egypt |
f. 53v
The miraculous corn |
f. 54
Angel, eagle and ostrich |
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f. 59v
The Massacre of the Innocents |
f. 60v
Christ in the Temple |
f. 61
Bird and acorns |
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f. 66v
Funeral of the Virgin |
f. 67
Mermaid and elephant |
f. 75
Dragon and dog |
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f. 84v
Palm Sunday |
f. 85v
The Last Supper |
f. 86v
Judas and the Chief Priests |
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f. 87v
The Agony in the Garden |
f. 88v
The Soldiers afraid |
f. 89v
The Betrayal |
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f. 91v
Christ before Caiaphas |
f. 92v
Christ mocked |
f. 93v
Peter's repentance |
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f. 97v
Christ before Pilate |
f. 99v
Christ before Pilate |
f. 100v
Crown of thorns |
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f. 101v
Christ mocked |
f. 102v
Christ reviled |
f. 105v
Christ prepared for scourging |
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f. 108v
Christ led away |
f. 109v
The Carrying of the Cross |
f. 112v
Christ prepared for crucifixion |
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f. 114v
The Raising of the Cross |
f. 117v
The Crucifixion |
f. 118v
Soldiers casting lots |
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f. 120v
Joseph and Nicodemus |
f. 123v
The Deposition |
f. 124v
The Pietą |
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f. 125
Zoomorphic initial and dragn |
f. 127v
The Anointing |
f. 128v
The Entombment |
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f. 129v
Closing the tomb |
f. 130v
The Jews before Pilate |
f. 131v
The Harrowing of Hell |
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f. 133v
The Instruments of the Passion |
f. 135v
The Resurrection |
f. 136v
'Noli me tangere' |
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f. 137v
The Supper at Emmaus |
f. 139v
Christ appears to the Apostles |
f. 140v
Christ and the Apostles,with Thomas |
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f. 141v
The Ascension |
f. 142v
Pentecost |
f. 144v
The Seven Words |
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f. 145
Decorated initial and border |
f. 150v
The Saviour |
f. 155v
The Virgin and a kneeling woman |
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