{"product_id":"book-of-hours-16","title":"BOOK OF HOURS.","description":"\u003cp\u003eProvenance: \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Most probably written and illuminated in Besançon for a male patron: the liturgical usage is either Autun or probably Besançon, while the Calendar is firmly the latter, with the local saint, Pierre de Bellevaux (also known as St. Peter of Tarentaise, 8 May), founder of the Cistercian abbey of Bellevaux where his relics were kept throughout the Middle Ages, as well as saint-bishops of Besançon: Claudius (early sixth century; 5 June) and Antidus the martyr (d. c. 407; 17 June). That said, St. Symphorianus, patron of Autun, appears in the Litany and so there may be some liturgical crossover between these two regions in the commission of this volume for an individual patron. The prayer, Obsecro te, appears on fol. 94 in the male form. \u003cbr\u003e\n C16 ms inscription on fly  Orants. Oudot La Verne . La Verne is a village about 30 km from Besançon.  Oudot  was a popular medieval Christian name in the region and later also a surname. Oudot La Verne, a merchant tanner, married in 1582 and a little later Alexandre Oudot was cur é of Verne. \u003cbr\u003e\n Almost certainly lost or disposed of following the suppression of religious life during the Revolution. \u003cbr\u003e\n Re-emerged recently in France \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Text: \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Principally Latin with some French. The volume comprises: a Calendar (fol. 1r); Readings from the Gospels (fol. 14r); the Hours of the Virgin, with Matins (fol. 20r), Lauds (fol. 34r), Prime (fol. 48r), Terce (fol. 55r), Sext (fol. 60r), Nones (fol. 64r), Vespers (fol. 68r), and Compline (fol. 76r); Hours of the Cross (fol. 83r); Hours of the Holy Spirit (fol. 87v); the Obsecro te and O intemerata (fol. 91v), followed by the Sept joies de la Vierge, Dulcissime domine and the Sept joies again in Latin; Penitential Psalms (fol. 103v) followed by a Litany; the Office of the Dead (fol. 127v); and Suffrages to the Saints (fol. 144r). \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Illumination: \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n The miniatures here with their distinctively stout bodied figures and split eyes identify this as the work of a Besançon artist working in the second quarter of the fifteenth century (cf. F. Avril and Reynaux, Les manuscrits ‚àö‚Ć peintures en France, 1440-1520, 1993, no. 109). Our artist has been attributed to the painter of another Book of Hours, Use of Autun, now BnF., NAL. 3118, a follower of the artist of BnF., lat. 1186 (Book of Hours, Use of Langres) and New York, Morgan Library, M. 293 (Book of Hours, Use of Besançon). \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n The miniatures are: (i) fol. 20r, the Annunciation to the Virgin within a richly decorated interior with a burnished gold background; (ii) fol. 87v, Pentecost, with a gold and coloured tessellated background; (iii) fol. 103v, Judgement Day with Christ seated on a rainbow resting his feet on an orb, all before a dark blue night sky; (iv) fol. 127v, a funeral with hooded and tonsured monks standing before a covered coffin, all before a gold and coloured tessellated background; (v) fol. 144r, Archangel Michael striking a demon, before a gold and coloured tessellated background; (vi) fol. 146r, St. Anne and the Virgin Mary at the Golden Gate; (vii), fol. 151v, St. Nicholas. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n An attractive and unusually early bourgeois Book of Hours, remarkably preserving its original decorative binding.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOOK OF HOURS.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820348186959,"sku":"L3364","price":37500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_7958.jpg?v=1781794805","url":"https:\/\/www.sokol.co.uk\/products\/book-of-hours-16","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}