Item Summary

Book of Hours, for use by a woman in the collegiate church of Saint Waudru at Mons, Belgium. Includes four feasts of St. Waldetrudis and three members of her family in the calendar; her portrait, with her two daughters, is on fol. 132r.

Descriptive Information

Title
Book of Hours (Ms. Princeton University Library. Scheide 20)
Call Number
85.1
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dczc77t4559
Publisher
[Mons, Belgium], [approximately 1460].
Language
Latin
Date Created
1460
Format
Manuscript
Extent
191 leaves : parchment ; 187 x 133 (98 x 70) mm bound to 201 x 152 mm.
Provenance
Executed for a lady of the Froidmont-Joye family (depicted fol. 130); bookplate of Oliver H. Perkins; his sale (New York, Mar. 23, 1926, no. 551, facs.).
Source Acquisition
Gift; William H. Scheide, Class of 1936; 2015.
References
De Ricci, p. 2123, no. 20
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Explicit: "Anime omnium fidelium defunctorum per misericordiam Dei sine fine requiescant in pace. Amen."
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bookmark comprised of red, white and blue threads.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. ii (later paper and leather) + 191 + ii (later paper and leather) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 14-15 lines per page ; ruled.
Decoration: 22 large miniatures with full-page borders containing figures, animals, and flora. Foliate border with flowers and fruit along outside edge of text on all pages. 1- to 2-line gold initials on color backgrounds with infill throughout. Line-fillers in gold, red and blue. Borders by a Flemish artist of the atelier of Jacques Pilavaine.
Origin: Written at Mons (ca. 1460).
Binding Note
Later binding.17th and 18th century. Calf binding over wooden boards. Gold-tooled frame and decorative edging around dark brown leather inset medallion lettered J. H. S. Gold-stamped fleur-de-lis on spine. Leather doublures and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands. Gilt edges.

Discovery Information

Subject
Catholic Church—Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
Books of hours—Belgium—Mons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
394

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e56809ba-f1e2-430a-8383-3a6d81f02ee8/manifest