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421702
  • Title
    Book of Hours, Bourges, ca. 1480
  • Call number
    Safe 1/7c
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1480
  • Type of material
    Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Drawings
  • Reference code
    421702
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    0.3 metres of textual material (1 volume) - manuscript, ink, gold and pigment on vellum
    Drawings
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    This book of hours was produced in the workshop of Jean Colombe of Bourges.
  • Scope and Content
    Text: Latin, with calendar in French. Includes calendar; gospel sequences; O intemerata; Hours of the Virgin; seasonal variations; Hours of the Cross; Hours of the Holy Ghost; penitential psalms; litany; Vigils of the Dead; commemorations of saints; Stabat Mater.
    Decoration: Includes historiated and other initials; decorative borders; 12 small double miniatures with the calendar showing the appropriate labours for each month with signs of the zodiac and 26 large miniatures. The subjects of the small miniatures are: January - feasting; February - digging; March - pruning vines; April - going on pilgrimage; May - lovers courting; June - scything; July - reaping; August - sowing; September - gathering acorns; October - treading grapes; November - stoking a fire; December - killing a pig. The large miniatures depict St John on Patmos, St Luke, St Matthew, St Mark, Virgin and Child with attendant angels, Virgin and Child with attendant angels, Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Betrayal of Christ, Christ before Caiaphas, Crowning with thorns, Carrying the Cross, Pentecost, David and Goliath, St Sebastian, St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist, St Catherine, St Lawrence, St Barbara, Pieta - Stabat Mater.
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    See: Manion, Margaret and Vines, Vera. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts in Australian Collections, 1984
    'A "Horae" of XV. Century and Mystery Plays' by D.J. Finn, a reprint of his article in 'Our Alma Mater', 1926, which examines this manuscript, is located at Safe 1/7i. Notes by D.J. Finn, 1921, about this manuscript and several of the Library's illuminated manuscripts are located at Safe 1/7h. Notes by J.T. Hackett, 1918, are located at Safe 1/7j.
    This item has been preserved, and select pages have been digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002.
    Digital order no:Album ID : 846362
    Author unknown.
  • Creator/Author/Artist
    Finn, D. J.
    Hackett, J. T. (James Thompson)
  • Subject
    Books of hours--France.
    Historiated initials.
    Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
    Miniature painting, Medieval.
  • Exhibited in

    Possessed : an exhibition of treasures - State Library of New South Wales (4 March - 29 June, 1997)
    Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (Jan 2003 - Mar 2004)
  • Open Rosetta viewer
    IE1069599

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