DPL Reed MMF9

Book of Hours, Latin. Flanders, ca. 1300

Single leaf. 118 by 82mm. Single column, eleven lines, ruled in leadpoint, written space 61 by 48mm; gothic liturgical hand.

Text: Part of Lauds in the Office of the Dead.
Decoration: Arabesque line-fillers in red, blue and burnished gold; rubrics in red; 2-line initials with 3-sided bar border terminating with human and lion masks in gold; standing figure of a dancing man in outer margin.
Provenance: From the Ghistelles Hours, most likely associated with John III of Ghistelles (d. 1315), Lord of Ghistelles and Ingelmunster, Belgium. May be ‘imperfect 13th c. French Horae’ owned by Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867–1962), (see C. de Hamel, ‘Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts from the Library of Sir Sydney Cockerell’ in the British Library Journal XIII, 1987, p.203, no. 68). Purchased from Maggs in February 1956.
References: Manion, Vines, de Hamel no. 72; Reed Early Bibles no. 30.
Shelfmark: RMM Fragment 9.

Description reproduced from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections (London, 1989) by permission of the authors (Christopher de Hamel, Margaret Manion, and the family of Vera F. Vines).