• Title
  Book of Hours, Rouen, ca. 1500-1510
• Call number
  Safe 1/7e
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1500-1510
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  421703
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  0.02 metres of textual material (1 volume) - manuscript, ink, gold and pigment on vellum
  Drawings
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  This book of hours is an example of the Rouen School which flourished in north-west France from the end of the fifteenth century.
• Scope and Content
  Text: Latin, calendar in French. Includes: calendar; gospel sequences; Hours of the Virgin; Hours of the Cross; Hours of the Holy Ghost; penitential psalms; litany; Vigils of the Dead; Obsecro te; O intemerata; Stabat Mater; commemorations; additional prayers.
  Decoration: Decorative borders, the dominant motive being a twisting acanthus pattern supporting a variety of birds and gargoyles.
  
  18 small miniatures and 13 large miniatures. The subjects of the small miniatures are: the Virgin and Child; Trinity; God the Father; God the Son; God the Holy Ghost at Pentecost; St Michael; St John the Baptist; St John the Evangelist; St Peter and St Paul; St Stephen; St Lawrence; St Sebastian; St Nicholas; St Anthony; St Catherine; St Margaret; St Barbara; St Mary Magdalen. The large miniatures are framed by architectural designs incorporating columns and arcades and depict: the four evangalists; Annunciation; Visitation; Nativity; Annunciation to the shepherds; Adoration of the Magi; Presentation; Massacre of the Innocents; Coronation of the Virgin; Crucifixion; Pentecost; King David with his harp; Death stabs young lovers.
• Language
  Latin, French
• 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
  
  D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside front cover
  Select pages from this item have been digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823872
  Author unknown.
• Subject
  Books of hours--France.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  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)
  A grand obsession : The D. S. Mitchell story - State Library of New South Wales (June, 2007 - September, 2007)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE11708706

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