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Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 38

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Manchester Digital Collections
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The John Rylands Library
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  • Latin MS 38
Biblissima authority file
Language
  • Latin
Title
    • Kalendar
    • Sequences of the Gospels
    • Seven Psalms and Litany
    • Office of the Dead
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Agent
  • Preferred form
    • James Ludovic Lindsay (comte de Crawford, 1847-1913)
    Role
    • Former owner
    Original form
    • James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford
    • Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913
    Other form
    • Lindsay, James Ludovic, Earl (1847-1913)
    • James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
    • Lindsay, James Ludovic (1847-1913)
    • James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), peer and collector
    • James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, 1847-1913
    • Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847-1913
    • James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford 1847-1913
    • James Ludovic Lindsay, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
    • James Ludovic Lindsay 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
    • Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
    • James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford of Haigh Hall
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Description
  • Extent:
    ff. 141 (ii+137+ii) Leaf height: 259 mm, width: 165 mm.
    Binding:

    Fine light brown morocco, with gold tooling: the central panel on each cover semée with interlaced Cs. Two clasps.


    Decoration:
    Folio 6r: Sequences of the Gospels. Architectural frame. Arms supported by angels, at the bottom. Half-page picture. John on Patmos in a landscape, with a water-wheel in the distance. The Eagle sits on a rock by him; he writes on a scroll on his knee and looks towards a vision in the sky of the Virgin and Child, rayed.
    Folio 10v: Obsecro teo. Small picture. The Virgin, crowned, with the Child, stands on the crescent on a gold ground, rayed, dying into red, and surrounded by blue clouds.
    Folio 13r: O intemerata. In text: The Virgin and Child seated in a room: a loggia looking out on a landscape. On left kneels Galiot, habited as before.
    Folio 15v: Stabat mater. Framed page: half-page picture. Pieta. The Cross in centre; John kneels on left, Magdalene on right.
    Folio 17v: Hours of the Virgin. Frontispiece, full page, framed. Jesse-tree, in gold, on blue ground. The Virgin and Child, half length, at top, in an oval glory. Twelve ancestors, half length, on the branches.
    Folio 18r: Matins. Framed. Half-page picture, the Annunciation. On a pavement: a building with classical and Gothic detail on right. The angel, on one knee, on left. The Father in the sky, and Dove on ray. Landscape. Arms and cherubs below.
    Folio 31v: Lauds. Bordered page: three oblong pictures in the border. (a) Joachim reclines in a field: angel appears to him. (b) The Visitation. (c) Meeting of Joachim and Anne.
    Folio 32r: Bordered.
    Folio 39v: Matins of the Cross. Pictnres in border. (a) Bearing the Cross. The Virgin follows. (b) Crucifixion, with Mary and John. (c) Entombment.
    Folio 40r: Bordered: natural flowers.
    Folio 40v: Matins of the Holy Ghost. Pictures in border. (a) The Dove in a glory. (b) The Virgin and holy women kneeling. (c) The Apostles (half length) looking up. The whole representing Pentecost.
    Folio 41r: De conceptione. Pictures in border. (a) The Virgin in a glory. (b) The thief Ebbo, in shirt, kneeling by a gallows, with broken rope on it. The Virgin and Child in the sky. (c) The abbot Elsin (a monk) in prayer in a sinking ship. The Virgin and Child in the sky.
    Folio 42v: Prime. Full page, framed. The Virgin (right) and Joseph adore the Child under the broken thatch of the stable roof. A pack-saddle lies near. Ox and ass. A blue angel in the sky.
    Folio 43r: Framed: half page. Group of four angels in clouds, with scrolls (Gloria-deo). The clouds are dotted with cherubs.
    Folio 48v: Tierce. Framed: full page. Shepherds (four) in landscape: angel in sky with blank scroll.
    Folio 49r: Framed: half page. Another scene of the angel and shepherds: there are seven figures in various parts of the picture, and a city gate. The angel is very small.
    Folio 54v: Sext. Adoration of the Magi. All the figures, including Joseph, who is some way off, are in white. The Virgin kneels, holding the Child over a small white altar panelled with red marble, in centre.
    Folio 59v: None. Framed: half page. Presentation. Joseph kneels, with candle and doves. The Virgin also kneels. Symeon, mitred, holds the Child on the altar. Almost all the draperies are white.
    Folio 64v: Vespers. Framed: full page. The Flight. Joseph leads the ass to left. In the distance are the husbandman and the soldiers. The landscape is very good.
    Folio 65r: Framed, with arms and angels at the bottom: picture more than half page. Herod, thmned, in centre; with four courtiers by him. In front, the massacre - two soldiers and four women. The scene is a hall, open to left, with elaborate pavement.
    Folio 72v: Compline. Full page: framed. The death of the Virgin. Her soul in a glory above. Peter, with aspergillum, John, and another Apostle with a cross are conspicuous. In front, an Apostle reading; another on one knee, weeping.
    Folio 73r: Framed: more than half-page picture. Coronation of the Virgin. On right, the Father, in tiara, with orb, stands blessing, a gold throne behind Him. The Virgin kneels before Him: three angels crown her. The background is glory and clouds.
    Folio 79vSeven Psalms. Framed, with arms and angels: full page. David in prayer in a fine courtyard with a classical cloister. A canopy behind him. An angel in air, holding an arrow, a birch rod, and a sword.
    Folio 94v: Office of the Dead. Full page, framed, with arms and cherubs. The three young men riding to left, and looking hack back to right, in fear: a white hound in front. The most conspicuous of the young men wears red top-boots, and his horse (white) is caparisoned with blue and gold. Great pains have been spent on painting a tree, with autumnal foliage.
    Folio 95r: Framed: full page. The three Dead, skeletons with shroud and dart, coffin and spade, in a cloistered churchyard. In front is a table-tomb, inscribed: De profondis clamavi a teo. There is a churchyard cross on left. Skulls and bones lie about.
    Folio 126v: Memoriae. Framed: half page. The Trinity (Italian). The Father, in tiara, throned, in an apse. Angels on right and left.
    Folio 127r: In text. Michael, in gold armour, tramples on the devil.
    Folio 127v: John Baptist, with book and lamb, in landscape.
    Folio 128r: John Evangelist, with cup and serpent, in landscape.
    Folio 128v: Peter and Paul on a pavement: low wall and landscape behind.
    Folio 129r: Framed, with arms and angels. In text. St. James the Great as pilgrim.
    Folio 129v: Larger, in text. St. Sebastian bound to a tree in centre shot by two archers.
    Folio 130v: St. Christopher carrying the Child. Hermit, with lantern, on a rock on right.
    Folio 131r: St Claude in a church, vested as bishop, with cross-staff. On left a shrouded corpse rising out of a tomb in the pavement. On right a bearded man, kneeling: his hands are manacled in one iron: the projection containing the lock is seen in front.
    Folio 132v: Half page. St. Hubert, beardless, in blue tunic (over gold), red top-boots, gold spurs, kneels to the stag, with crucifix between its horns (on left). Two white hounds: white horse on right.
    Folio 133v: Half page. St Mary Magdalene, standing, with casket, in a rocky landscape.
    Folio 134r: Smaller. St Anne, seated: the Virgin reading at her knee. Two maidens, with books, stand on left.
    Folio 135r: Smaller St Katherine, with sword and book, in a landscape: broken wheel lies on left.
    Folio 135v: St Barbara, with palm and book, in a landscape. A tower on right.
    Folio 136v: St Genevieve, with book and candle, in landscape. In air, a devil with bellows (right) and an angel, contending over the candle.


    Acquisition:

    Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford. Bequeathed by Rylands to the John Rylands Library in 1908.


    Layout:

    20 long lines.


    Collation:

    Quire a2, 1 lines cover
    Quire 14
    Quire 28, plus 1
    Quire 34
    Quires 468
    Quire 710
    Quire 88, plus 1
    Quire 98, plus 1
    Quire 108, plus 1
    Quire 118, plus 1
    Quire 128
    Quire 138, plus 1
    Quires 14-178
    Quire 182
    Quire b2, 2 lines cover


    Data Source(s):
    Description based on M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (München, 1980), revised and expanded by Joanne Edge.
    Subject(s):
    Books of hours
    Abstract:

    Book of Hours, owned by Jacques Galiot de Ricard de Gourdon-Genouillac (1465-1546). Produced in the early 16th century, possibly at Rouen.


    Format:
    Codex
    Material:
    Parchment.
    Provenance:

    Owned by Jacques Galiot de Ricard de Gourdon-Genouillac, (b. 1465, d. 1546), French soldier and diplomat

    Purchased by James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford for £215 at the Perkins Sale (Lot 601) on 5th June 1873 (CLL, 1873, nos. 166-67, 170, 185, 190, 196).

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