Flanders

Abstract This is a French book of hours written about 1450. Although the text itself is complete, several leaves have been removed, probably containing illuminations, and possibly, in quire XVI, additional suffrages. There are three- to four-line illuminated initials and full borders on four sides containing drolleries marking the beginnings to major sections. The leaves following fol. 89r, with the exception of f. 118r and 180r, are considerably less ornate and complex than the earlier pages. There...

Abstract

This is a mid-fifteenth century book of hours from Northern Flanders, use of Rome.

Table of contents: Calendar of Flanders, with entries pointing to Brussels, including important feasts; Short Office of the Cross; Mass of the Virgin concluding with the four gospel pericopes; Office of the Virgin; Penitential Psalms and Litany; Office of the Dead.

Abstract

This manuscript contains a mid-fifteenth century Book of Hours.

Table of contents: Calendar of Bruges; Short Hours of the Holy Cross; Short Hours of the Holy Spirit; Mass of the Virgin, use of Rome; Obsecro te... [masculine forms; Leroquais LH 2.346-47]; Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome; Penitential Psalms and Litany; Office of the Dead, use of Rome, only one Nocturn; Suffrage to St. Sebastian.

Abstract This is a Book of Hours from the second quarter of the fifteenth century from Flanders, use of Sarum. There are fourteen full-page miniatures with borders on three sides, which include the Passion cycle for the Hours of Virgin and of Saints Michael, Barbara, and John the Baptist for the suffrages, as well as miniatures of the Last Judgment for the Penitential Psalms, a Funeral Service for the Office of the dead. The Raising of Souls to God for the Commendation of Souls, and Christ with...