Mönchs-Handschrift, Skriptor, Mittelalterliches Scriptorium - Totenoffizium, Pergament, 16 Initialien mit roten & blauen Federwerk, Flandern - 1300
Original Latin breviary manuscript on parchment
Netherlands-Flanders, around 1300-1330
16 initials with red and blue penwork
Red and blue minuscules and lombards
Dutch Scriptorium - Masterpiece
Netherlands-Flanders
Finest parchment
1 sheet = 2 pages from a book of hours
Dimensions: 14. 5cm x 10. 5cm
On the art and pain of writing, an unknown 8th-century scribe remarked in a Latin note: “O blessed reader! Wash your hands and pick up the book, turn the leaves carefully, place your fingers away from the letter! Because if you can't write, you think it's no trouble. Oh, how annoying it is to write! It tires the eyes, weakens the loins and at the same time makes all the limbs sick. Three fingers write, my whole body hurts. Therefore, just as the sailor longs to get to his native port, so does the writer to the last line. ”
The finished manuscripts are unique specimens that are preserved in the form of scrolls (in late antiquity) or codices (since the 5th century) and stored in archives and libraries. The loose layers were bound into codices by the bookbinders. The book cover often consisted of thin wooden boards covered with embossed leather (scratch iron lines, and since the Gothic period often additional plate and/or roll stamps) or parchment and often provided with book clasps and fittings. Elaborately designed books, especially liturgical books, were given splendid bindings made of valuable materials (silver, gilded copper, enamel, ivory, precious and semi-precious stones, silk, brocade) , which represent top works of goldsmithing.
The Book of Hours, also Horarium, French Livre d'heures, was a prayer and devotional book for the Liturgy of the Hours that was very similar in structure to the Breviary of the Roman Catholic Church. Books of Hours were initially intended for laypeople and later also for clergy. They emerged in the 13th century and displaced the Psalter from its dominant role as a prayer book. In the late Middle Ages they were the private devotional book par excellence in circles of the rich, literate nobility and urban nobility. The book type experienced its popularity and artistic heyday in the 13th and 14th centuries in France and Flanders - the name Livre d'heures, which is still known today, bears witness to this. Later they came to the German-speaking area via the Netherlands.
Books of hours were usually elaborately decorated with book decorations. Individual copies are among the most magnificent illustrated manuscripts ever produced.
The most famous and artistically valuable are probably the Books of Hours of the Duke of Berry (1340–1416) ,
The core parts of the books of hours were a Marian office and the office of the dead. The name Book of Hours is derived from the times of day it contains to pray at certain hours. Originally starting at midnight with Matins, which for practical reasons was combined with Lauds at three in the morning over the years, Prime, Terce, Sext, Non, Vespers and Compline were prayed every three hours from six in the morning . Cisiojanus verses were also found in the books of hours, which helped to date the movable feasts of the church year.
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Original Latin breviary manuscript on parchment
Netherlands-Flanders, around 1300-1330
16 initials with red and blue penwork
Red and blue minuscules and lombards
Dutch Scriptorium - Masterpiece
Netherlands-Flanders
Finest parchment
1 sheet = 2 pages from a book of hours
Dimensions: 14. 5cm x 10. 5cm
On the art and pain of writing, an unknown 8th-century scribe remarked in a Latin note: “O blessed reader! Wash your hands and pick up the book, turn the leaves carefully, place your fingers away from the letter! Because if you can't write, you think it's no trouble. Oh, how annoying it is to write! It tires the eyes, weakens the loins and at the same time makes all the limbs sick. Three fingers write, my whole body hurts. Therefore, just as the sailor longs to get to his native port, so does the writer to the last line. ”
The finished manuscripts are unique specimens that are preserved in the form of scrolls (in late antiquity) or codices (since the 5th century) and stored in archives and libraries. The loose layers were bound into codices by the bookbinders. The book cover often consisted of thin wooden boards covered with embossed leather (scratch iron lines, and since the Gothic period often additional plate and/or roll stamps) or parchment and often provided with book clasps and fittings. Elaborately designed books, especially liturgical books, were given splendid bindings made of valuable materials (silver, gilded copper, enamel, ivory, precious and semi-precious stones, silk, brocade) , which represent top works of goldsmithing.
The Book of Hours, also Horarium, French Livre d'heures, was a prayer and devotional book for the Liturgy of the Hours that was very similar in structure to the Breviary of the Roman Catholic Church. Books of Hours were initially intended for laypeople and later also for clergy. They emerged in the 13th century and displaced the Psalter from its dominant role as a prayer book. In the late Middle Ages they were the private devotional book par excellence in circles of the rich, literate nobility and urban nobility. The book type experienced its popularity and artistic heyday in the 13th and 14th centuries in France and Flanders - the name Livre d'heures, which is still known today, bears witness to this. Later they came to the German-speaking area via the Netherlands.
Books of hours were usually elaborately decorated with book decorations. Individual copies are among the most magnificent illustrated manuscripts ever produced.
The most famous and artistically valuable are probably the Books of Hours of the Duke of Berry (1340–1416) ,
The core parts of the books of hours were a Marian office and the office of the dead. The name Book of Hours is derived from the times of day it contains to pray at certain hours. Originally starting at midnight with Matins, which for practical reasons was combined with Lauds at three in the morning over the years, Prime, Terce, Sext, Non, Vespers and Compline were prayed every three hours from six in the morning . Cisiojanus verses were also found in the books of hours, which helped to date the movable feasts of the church year.
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