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Detailed record for Additional 17280
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| Title |
Book of Hours, Use of Rome |
| Origin |
Netherlands, S. (Bruges) |
| Date |
Between 1480 and 1489 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic cursive (Bastarda) |
| Artists |
Master of the Dresden Prayerbook |
| Decoration |
14 large miniatures in full scatter borders in colours with gold (ff. 24v, 43v, 77v, 96v, 113v, 168v, 183v, 190v, 197v, 203v, 210v, 221v, 238v, 280v). 28 small miniatures with partial scatter borders in colours with gold. 30 historiated initials with full or partial scatter borders in colours with gold. Borders include flowers, berries, animals, birds, insects and butterflies and each full border incorporates two roundels with scenes from the Bible and the apocrypha. Numerous framed initials and line-fillers in grey on gold grounds. Rubrics in red |
| Dimensions in mm |
150 x 110 (75 x 50) |
| Official foliation |
ff. iv + 368 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning and 3 unfoliated flyleaves at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Green velvet with gold tooling and silk fore-leaves. Rebound in 1966. A former 19th-century binding of purple velvet edges with filigree and studded with precious stones is kept separately. |
| Provenance |
Perhaps made for a patron with connections to Evreux: the saints in the litany include Taurinus, Aquilinus and Gaudus; also included are Claude of Besancon and Denis, indicating French ownership (see Backhouse, 'So-called Hours', 1994).
? Colonel Theubet, collector of Porrentruy Switzerland: added notes in English ( ff. i and ii) and in Spanish (f. iii), claiming that the manuscript belonged to Archduke Philip the Fair, and the 19th-century portraits of Philip (d. 1506) and his wife Joanna of Castile (ff. 2v-3) were probably added for him; his anonymous sale, London, 19 July 1842, lot 54.
William Knight, F.S.A., bought by him from Colonel Theubet in 1842; his sale, London, 2 August, 1847, lot 728; bought by Thomas Rodd (a note on f. iv).
Bought from Thomas Rodd, 20 January 1848 by the British Museum. |
| Notes |
A former 19th-century binding of purple velvet edges with filigree and studded with precious stones is kept separately.
This Book of Hours originally contained a total of 149 separate pictorial images, 19 of them large miniatures.The calendar (ff. 4-15v) appears incomplete, with only the entries in blue and gold completed and no decoration apart from small initials (see discussion in Backhouse, 'So-called Hours', 1994).
The Master of the Dresden Prayerbook is an anonymous artist mainly active in Bruges, identified by Winkler 'Der Brugger Meister' (1914). |
| Select bibliography |
W. R. Tymms and M. D. Wyatt, The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (London: Day and Sons, 1860; repr. Studio Editions, 1987), pl. XVI.3-4.
The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1848-1854 (London: British Museum, 1868), p. 1.
[George Warner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series I, (London: British Museum, 1907), pl. 37.
Friedrich Winkler, 'Der Brugger Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuches und seine Werke', Jahrbuch der Koniglich preussischen Kunstsammlungen, 35 (1914), 225-40.
Janet Backhouse, Books of Hours (London: British Library, 1985), figs 27-28.
Janet Backhouse, 'The So-called Hours of Philip the Fair: an introductory note on British Library Additional MS 17280', Wiener Jahrbuch fur Kunstgeschichte, 46-47, pt 1 (1993-94), 45-54, online at https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/wjk.1994.46-47.issue-1/wjk.1994.4647.1.45/wjk.1994.4647.1.45.pdf [accessed August 2019].
The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come, ed. by Frances Carey (London: British Museum, 1999), pp. 95-96, no. 24.
Maurits Smeyers, Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century (Leuven: Brepols, 1999), pl. 25 on p. 438.
Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance: the Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe(Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003), cat. no. 117, pp. 391-93 [exhibition catalogue].
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1550 (London: British Library, 2003), pls. 73-76.
Alixe Bovey, Jean de Carpentin's book of hours: The Genius of the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book (London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2011), pp. 111-14, fig. 118. |
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f. 16
John the Evangelist |
f. 18v
Matthew |
f. 20v
Mark |
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f. 21v
Bernard crushing a devil |
f. 24v
The Trinity |
f. 25
The Trinity and Old Testament figures |
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f. 68
Pentecost |
f. 77v
The Adoration of the Lamb |
f. 78
Virgin and Child |
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f. 96v
The Last Supper |
f. 146
The Annunciation |
f. 169
The unborn Christ and John the Baptist |
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f. 203v
The Massacre of the Innocents |
f. 204
Herod and Moses |
f. 210v
The Flight into Egypt with miracles |
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f. 211
Scenes from Exodus |
f. 221v
The Presentation and the road to Jerusalem |
f. 222
The Circumcision |
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f. 242
Pieta, Joseph and Jonah |
f. 251
David |
f. 281
Michael fighting the devil for a soul |
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f. 340v
The Trinity |
f. 341v
Michael and the angels |
f. 342v
John the Baptist |
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f. 343
Peter and Paul |
f. 345
Andrew |
f. 346
Christopher |
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f. 347v
Adrian |
f. 348v
Sebastian |
f. 349
Maurice |
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f. 350
George and the dragon |
f. 351v
Claude of Besancon |
f. 352v
Laurence |
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f. 353
Gregory |
f. 355
Jerome |
f. 356
Ambrose |
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f. 358
Nicholas |
f. 359
Martin |
f. 360
Anthony |
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f. 360v
Anne and the Virgin |
f. 361v
Mary Magdalene |
f. 362v
Catherine |
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f. 363v
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f. 363v
Barbara |
f. 364
Appolonia |
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f. 365
Agnes |
f. 366
Margaret |
f. 367v
All the Saints |
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