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NYPL Spencer 036 | | Description: ff. iv + 233 + iv - Full green morocco, decorated with red morocco onlays, elaborately tooled in gilt, in the style of Derome le Jeune. - Initials WM and M and the motto "Fors vous" in the borders. Philip Augustus Hanrott; collection of Henry D. Seymour and Alfred Seymour. Courtland Bishop; his sale, American Art Assoc. - Anderson Galleries, (New York, 1938), Pt. II, no. 1426 for Spencer. - De Ricci, Supplement, 331-2. K. Kup, "The Christmas Story in Medieval and Renaissance Mss. from the Spencer Coll.," Bulletin of the NYPL23 (1969). - Jonathan J. G. Alexander, James H. Marrow and Lucy Freeman Sandler, The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the New York Public Library(London / Turnhout: The New York Public Library / Harvey Miller Publishers, 2005) n. 66. | | Acknowledgments: - We thank Roger S. Wieck for his extensive work towards the present description of this manuscript. | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 7 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/NYPLSpencer036_42 | | Language: Latin Country: Flanders Century: 16th |
| | Part 1: ff. 1-233v | | Description: - Parchment - 178 x 132 mm - 13 long lines per page, ruled in red ink. Some catchwords visible, written in same script as text, or in cursive. Quaternions the norm. | | Country: Flanders | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: Bruges | | Assigned Date: s. XVIin | Searchable Date Range: 1500 - 1515 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: ; | | Script: Gothic script of northern type with imitative southern features | | Artist(s): Simon Bening and workshop | | Figurative Decoration: 24 calendar miniatures, 3 leaves with historiated margins, 6 small Passion miniatures | | Other Decoration: 1- and 2-line white initials on red and gold background. Larger gold initials on fields colored green, purple, etc. | | Notes: As many as 21 full-page miniatures, formerly present on inserted singletons, now missing. Style of calendar miniatures suggests date ca. 1515-1520. Latin | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: ff. 1-231 | | Title:
De sancta facie nostri salvatoris
Book of hours, use of Rome
| | Language(s): Latin | | Incipit: Salva sancta facies nostri redemptoris | | Explicit: salvus esse non poterit. Gloria patri. Sicut erat. | 
| f. 1
Calendar for the month of January, with a man walking in the snow, as others remain indoors, near the fire.
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| f. 13
Border design of pendant jewels, beads, and a pearl-encrusted jewel with the symbols of the Passion.
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| f. 16
Betrayal at Gethsemane at nighttime, with Judas pointing to the praying Christ, and then kissing him, as Peter sheathes his sword, having cut off Malchus' ear.
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| f. 55v
Page of text with catchword placed in the lower margin towards the gutter, partially cropped.
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