{"product_id":"book-of-hours-12","title":"BOOK OF HOURS","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe volume comprises: a Calendar (fol. 2r); the Passion Readings (fol. 7r); the Obsecro te (fol. 12r) and the O intemerata (fol. 14r); the Hours of the Virgin (fol. 16v), opening “Hore intemerate virginis marie secundum usum rothom[agum]”, interspersed with the Hours of the Cross and Holy Spirit, with Matins (fol. 16v), Lauds (fol. 23r), Prime (fol. 32r), Terce (fol. 36r), Sext (fol. 39r), None (fol. 41v), Vespers (fol. 44r) and Compline (fol. 46v); the Penitential Psalms (fol. 50r), followed by a Litany; the Ofiice of the Dead (fol. 62r); followed by the Doulce dame (fol. 80v), the Doulx dieu (fol. 84r) in French, and Suffrages to the Saints.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rich palette of reds, gold and even black (used as a background for the Tree of Jesse miniature, as well as dark shading underneath the branches of trees) as well as the distinctive border decoration is redolent of Rouen work of the last decades of the fifteenth century, most notably miniatures often attributed to Robert Boyvin (c. 1470-after 1536), who worked for Cardinal Georges d’Amboise (archbishop of Rouen from 1493 until his death on 25 May 1510) as well as many other clients (see I. Delaunay, ‘Le manuscrit enluminé à Rouen au temps du cardinal Georges d’Amboise: l’œuvre de Robert Boyvin et de Jean Serpin’ in Annales de Normandie 45e année, 3, 1995, pp. 211-244). Of particular note here are the striking image of the Tree of Jesse and the uncommon image of the meeting of three living and three dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe large miniatures are: 1. fol. 8r, St. John on Patmos seated before his attribute the eagle, writing on a scroll; 2. fol. 16r, The tree of Jesse, with Jesse as a bearded sleeping fifure reclining at the foot of the leaf, with a twisted tree emerging from his chest and branching off with half-length portraits of the various kings in gold and coloured robes emerging from the buds at the end of some of its branches, the highest stalk containing the Virgin and Child, all on black ground and within architectural columns and architrave containing Adam, Eve and the Serpent in the centre; 3. fol. 23r, the Vistation of the Virgin to St. Anne before a medieval walled city; 4. fol. 30r, the Crucifixion, with a crowd at the foot of the Cross; 5. fol. 31r, Pentecost, with the Virgin standing within a gothic interior as the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove descends; 6. fol. 32r, the Nativity, with two peasants gazing up at the star in the background, with a bird and a drollery-creature in the border; 7. fol. 36r, Annunciation to the Shepherds, one with a bagpipe and another with a staff and a long tall hat; 8. fol. 39r, the Adoration of the Magi, all in rich robes; 9. fol. 41v, the Presentation in the Temple, set within an opulent gothic ecclesiastical interior; 10. fol. 44r, Flight into Egypt, with a soldier greeting a peasant before a field of ripe corn in the background (an apparent reference to the miracle of the instantaneous harvest, in which the soldier returns to the field only a few months after harvest to discover the peasants cutting the second and miraculous crop); 11. fol. 46v, the Coronation of the Virgin, as she kneels before God the Father; 12. fol. 50r, King David kneeling, his harp before him, as God appears in the sky through a window; 13. fol. 62r, the Meeting of the Three Living and the Three Dead, with the living on horseback as three grinning skeletons greet them at the crossroads before a medieval walled town; 14. fol. 80v, the Virgin and Child enthroned with the original owner kneeling before them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOOK OF HOURS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820148302159,"sku":"K97","price":125000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/1_8b3897f2-12b3-474a-b0c0-f61082479bda.jpg?v=1781794853","url":"https:\/\/www.sokol.co.uk\/products\/book-of-hours-12","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}