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Detailed record for Additional 18193
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| Title |
Book of Hours, use of Rome |
| Origin |
Spain, Catalonia |
| Date |
2nd half of the 15th century (after 1461) |
| Language |
Latin, with rubrics in Catalan |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Decoration |
8 full-page framed miniatures with foliate borders incorporating birds and fruit in colours with gold (ff. 20v, 41v, 48v, 56v, 86v, 135v, 139v, 143v). Large initials with decoration including flowers or strawberries, in red, blue and green on gold grounds wth full decorated borders, facing miniatures and at other major divisions (ff. 14, 21, 38, 42, 45, 49, 50, 57, 69, 119, 136, 140, 144), one with a skull (f. 87). Initials in blue with decoration in red and green on gold grounds with partial foliate borders. Initials in gold on red and blue grounds, including KL initials in the calendar. Small initials in gold with purple penwork decoration or in green or blue with red penwork decoration. Rubrics in red. Spaces for initials (ff. 152r-v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
195 x 130 (105 x 90) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 153 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyelaves at the beginning and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Brown leather with tooling in diagonal patterns. |
| Provenance |
Perhaps made for a woman who is shown kneeling before Mary Magdalene (f. 143v); completed after 1461:the feast of Catherine of Sienna is in the calendar.
A coat of arms, per pale barry or two gules bendy or six cotisses gules (f. 20v).
Payne and Foss, booksellers of London, their sale, 27 June 1850, lot 996; purchased by the British Museum. |
| Notes |
The calendar, rubrics and a short text at the end, Las tres veritats de Jarson (f. 145) are in Catalan.
The feast of Vincent Ferrer (canonised 1455) and Catherine of Sienna (canonised 1461) are in the calendar.
Some folios are lacking.
Unfoliated leaves following ff. 12, 49, 69, 118, 137, 151. |
| Select bibliography |
The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1848-1853 (London: British Museum, 1868), pp. 86, 87.
Pedro Bohigas, La Ilustración y la Decoratión del Libro Manuscrito en Cataluña: Período Gótico y Renacimiento, 2 vols (Barcelona: Asociación de Bibliófilos de Barcelona, 1965-1967), II, 95.
Janet Backhouse, Books of Hours (London: British Library, 1985), fig. 62.
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), pp. 164-65, pl. 101.
Del autor al lector: el comercio y distribución del libro medieval y moderno,
ed. by Yolande San Román and Nicolas Martin ( Zaragoza: University of Zaragoza Press, 2017) p. 19.
Josefina Planas, 'El libro de horas (Londres, British Library, Add MS 18193) y la sensibilidad religiosa del Reino de Valencia en las postrimerias del siglo XV', in Més enllà de les pregàries: llibres d'hores a l'ideari espiritual dels segles medievals I inicis del Renaixement, ed. by Josefina Planas (Lleida: Universitat de Lleida, 2021), pp. 241-77 (pp. 268-70 for a list of contents and images). |
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f. 20v
The Nativity |
f. 41v
The Adoration of the Magi |
f. 48v
The Holy Family |
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f. 56v
Death of the Virgin |
f. 86v
Priest celebrating |
f. 135v
The Crucifixion |
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f. 143v
The owner kneeling before Mary Magdalene |
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