Nevertheless, it interested the APS Librarian, John Vaughan, as an example of "Roman" religious expression, as a stunning example of an early book, and perhaps as a work of art.īooks of hours were among the most common devotional texts of the Middle Ages. Donated to the Society in 1806 - about the same time that Timothy Matlack donated a medieval breviary with more subdued illumination - the book of hours is an anomaly for a collection that stresses neither early works nor liturgical manuscripts. Online Symposium in July: Fragmented Illuminations.Few manuscripts at the APS are more extravagantly produced or more beautiful than the Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis, a late medieval book of hours.Maier, "Saints, Tradition and Monastic Identity: The Ghent Relics, 850-1100", Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, 85.2 (2007), pp. Compare the prayer in a near-contemprary Ghent Cathedral Breviary sold by Les Enluminures: “ sanctorum confessorum tuorum Landoaldi, Macharii, atque Amanti et sanctarum virginum tuarum Vintiane, Landrade, Pharahildis atque ceteorum quorum relique in presenti requiescunt ecclesie …” online here. Adrian, Brice, Pancras, Leodegar, Lambert, Landoaldus, Macharius, Amand, Amantius, Donatian, Ausbert, Wulfran, Gudwal, Vedast, Omer, Servatius, Willibrord, Gislenus, Bertin, Bertulf, Landrada, Pharahildis, Elizabeth of Hungary (canonised 1234), etc. Livinus who was martyred at Alost (about half way betwen Ghent and Brussels) and the first confessor is St. The Litany is present here, and includes many Flemish saints. Leaves from a Breviary which comprised the Ferial Psalter with Litany and the Office of the Dead, the Temporal, Sanctoral and Common. by 80mm., written in black ink in a small gothic hand, rubrics in red, capitals touched in red, versal initials throughout Psalter in red or blue, DECORATED INITIALS THROUGHOUT (usually several to a page) in red or blue with full-length penwork in both colours, a few larger initials divided red and blue with extensive penwork, a few medieval additions, some leaves worn and stained, extremities of some penwork cropped (147mm. [FLANDERS, POSSIBLY GHENT, LATE THIRTEENTH CENTURYĩ0 leaves, still partly stitched, most leaves detached, double column, 26-28 lines, written space c. NINETY LEAVES FROM A BREVIARY, IN LATIN, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM ![]() For an explanation of HL (Handlist) numbers, allocated to Ege MSS by Scott Gwara, see this post. Although the prayers appear to be the same as ones used for St Martin of Tours, they are presumbly used here for the less famous St Martin of Braga, whose feast-day was 19 March.Īlthough some of the individual saints mentioned above had different feast-days (St Bavo's own feast day, for example, was 1 October), it seems that 19 March, the feast-day of St Landoald and Adrian, was used at St Bavo's Abbey for the Feast of the Relics, and that Ege HL 18 was written for use there. The rubric in the second image above shows that the following feast is that of St Martin. The 90-leaf carcass of the parent volume was offered (but was apparently unsold) as part of the Ege estate at Sotheby's, 26 November 1985, lot 59, and from this large portion it was possible to attribute the manuscript to "Flanders, possibly Ghent", because the litany includes numerous other Flemish saints, including Livinus and Bavo (who were important in Ghent) highly-placed.Īn illuminated leaf from the same Breviary is at Oberlin College Library:Īnother is at the Hatcher Library, Ann Arbor: In addition to a leaf from Ege HL 18 in the "Fifty Original Leaves" portfolio ( here), the Library has another leaf from the same manuscript, which we will come to shortly. Pickard, the Rare Book Curator, kindly and very promptly sent me reference images of all the leaves I enquired about. ![]() It reminded me that, in addition to an Otto Ege portfolio of "Fifty Original Leaves" ( digitized here), the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library has some other interesting leaves and codices.
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