Details for manuscript 390

Manuscript №

390

Location

London

Collection

British Library

Reference

Add. 49999

Headnote

Book of Hours

Estimated date of production

s.xiii (med)

Folia

vii+105

Place of production

Oxfordshire

Produced for

Notes

see catalogue for description; French captions to the Hours of the Virgin (Dean no. 830) on ff. 1 r-101v and French prayers on ff.102v-105v (Dean no.740); "Book of Hours, known as the 'De Brailes Hours' after the name of the Oxford illuminator William de Brailes, who left two signatures in the manuscript (ff. 43r, 47r, see Provenance)."; "William de Brailes (fl. c. 1230 - c. 1260), illuminator documented in Oxford between 1238 and 1252 in relation to several property transactions and as owning a house on Catte Street (see Donovan, The de Brailes Hours (1991), Appendix 5), illuminated by him: his signatures: 'W. de Brailes qui me depeint.' (ff. 43r and 47r), made presumably for a woman: includes four images of a woman in prayer (ff. 64v, 75r, 87v, 88r)."; "Added prayers in Anglo-Norman French including prayers for friars Richard of Newark (Nottinghamshire), Richard of Westey, and Bartholomew of Grimston (d. c. 1265; joined the Dominican order in c. 1240, probably at Cambridge, see Hinnebusch, The Early English Friars Preachers (1951), p. 262, and Forte, 'A Cambridge Dominican Collector of Exempla in the Thirteenth Century' (1958), pp. 138-39), mid-13th century (f. 102v)"

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