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| | New York, New York Public Library, Spencer Collection,
NYPL Spencer 006 | | Description: ff. iii + 195 + iii - Was in red velvet. Rebound (1920) in red morocco, by the French Binders (Garden City, New York). - Sold by Lilly to Henry Huth (1815-1878); Alfred H. Huth (1850-1910) sale at Sotheby's, 1913 to Leighton. L.C. Harper. Acquired for Spencer from Harper, 1919. - De Ricci, 1336. Dictionary Catalog, Spencer Collection, 902. - 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. 62. | | 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: 39 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/NYPLSpencer006_42 | | Language: Latin; French Country: France Century: 16th |
| | Part 1: ff. 1-195v | | Description: - Parchment - 198 x 130 mm - 21 long lines per page, ruled in red ink. A few quire signatures and catchwords visible. Quaternions seem to be the norm. | | Country: France | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: Bourges | | Assigned Date: s. XVIin | Searchable Date Range: 1500 - 1515 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: ;1 | | Script: Ba^tarde | | Artist(s): Master of Spencer 6 | | Figurative Decoration: 2 double-page miniatures and 34 single-page miniatures; animals appear in some border designs. | | Other Decoration: Initials and rubrics; border designs with floreate scrolls, flowers, fruits; Roman capitals. | | Notes: The artist was named from this manuscript by Franc$ois Avril, and first published under this name by John Plummer. Latin | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: ff. 1v-195 | | Title:
Book of hours, use of Rome
| | Language(s): Latin; French | | Incipit: In principio erat verbum et verbum erat apud deum et deus erat verbum | | Explicit: cum maria magdalena perfecte te diligam et cum dextro latrone eternaliter te videam. Amen. Pater noster. Ave Maria. | ![Not Available]()
| f. 2v
Full-page miniature of feasting in January as the Occupation of the Month, facing the calendar page itself.
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| f. 3
First page of calendar for the month of January, with miniature in the lower margin depicting Aquarius as two boys pouring water from jugs, in a barren landscape.
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| f. 3v
Full-page miniature of falconry, with a large castle in the background, for the month of February.
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| f. 5v
Full-page miniature of lovers walking in a garden, with castle and river in the background, for the month of April.
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| f. 9v
Full-page miniature of falconry with gentlemen, birds, and dogs in the foreground and with threshers and a distant castle in the background, in August.
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| f. 10v
Full-page miniature of gathering grapes, with treading of grapes in background, in September.
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| f. 11v
Full-page miniature of plowing and sowing seed; riding to the hounds in the backgroud, in October.
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| f. 12v
Full-page miniature of hunting with horse and dogs, with wood-cutting in background, in November.
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| f. 16v
Turkish armies besieging Antioch (? unusual subject for the pericope from the gospel of Luke).
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| f. 18v
St. Matthew writing in a codex with his angel offering the ink well to him; behind the saint, a freize with the Adoration of the Magi.
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| f. 20v
Full-page miniature of the Apostles in ships on the Sea of Galilee (illustrating Mark 4:35-40?), as God appears to one figure kneeling in the prow of a boat.
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| f. 22v
Pilate delivering Jesus to the High Priest. Lower border reads: "Egressus est Dominus Ihesus."
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| ff. 32v-33
Double-page miniature of the Annunciation set in an elaborate room with a castle visible through the open doorway.
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| f. 49v
Visitation with Mary and Elizabeth in the hill country. Lower border reads: "Deus in adiutorium meum intende."
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| f. 59v
Christ bearing the Cross; a procession of figures with Mount Cavalry in the far background and Judas hanging on a tree in the middle background.
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| f. 61v
Christ and those to whom he appeared after his death: the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, Peter and another man (James or Thomas?); in the background the two disciples on the road to Emmaus.
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| f. 63v
Nativity, with the infant Jesus lying on the manger of the ox and the ass; the shepherds look on from the background.
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| f. 156v
The Virgin and the Infant Jesus, who stands as if on a windowsill reaching for the small bird his Mother offers to him.
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