Posted on 02/20/2021 6:41:30 PM PST by marshmallow
The 14th-century prayer book is part of a larger collection of rare books going to auction this spring.
15th-century Book of Hours is expected to fetch as much as $2.5 million when it goes to auction this April.
The medieval illuminated manuscript is part of a collection of 17 medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts and 200 printed books that belonged to Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg. Proceeds from the auction, which will be held by Christie’s in New York on April 23 will benefit the rare book department of designated museums, reported Medievalists.net.
According to the Medievalists.net, the highlight of the auction will be the Book of Hours, created around the year 1440 by the anonymous artist known as Master of the Paris Bartholomeus Anglicus.
“It’s one of the finest works of the period and it’s in pristine condition,” Eugenio Donadoni,a senior specialist in medieval and renaissance manuscripts at Christie’s London office, told Barron’s. “It’s really lavish and beautifully subtle,” he said.
The Book of Hours was a Christian devotional book popular in the Middle Ages.
(Excerpt) Read more at aleteia.org ...
Wow, if that's what hours are expected to fetch, how much for the "Book of Days"?
According to the Medievalists.net, the highlight of the auction will be the Book of Hours, created around the year 1440...
Now just hold on a minute..
You know this, but for others: the Book of Hours consisted of scripture readings, including Psalms and Canticles, to be read at various hours through the day and night.
A Canticle is a song or prayerful monolog from the bible. Major canticles include the praises from the Blessed Virgin Mary (”My soul magnifies the Lord, and my Spirit rejoices in God my Savior...”), from Zecharias (”Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people and set them free...), of Simeon (”Lord, now let your servant depart in peace...). There are many Old Testament Canticles, too, such as those of Moses (”...horse and rider, He has thrown into the Sea”).
Nearly the entire Book of the Hours is from scripture, and nearly the entire gospel is contained within, but there are significant portions that Protestants do not recognize as scripture, such as Canticles of Tobit, Judith, and an extended version of the Canticle of the Three Youths Saved from the Furnace from the Book of Daniel.
Leftists would love to get their hands on this book, just to burn it. They’d never buy it, of course, and THEN destroy it. But if you owned it, watch out. They’d destroy it and then laugh in your face. They’re just like muslims... Don’t like something? Burn it, behead it, annihilate it.
These books are so rare and valuable in part because most have been broken apart and sold by the page.
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Thank you for your insight.
Bkmk
The books you refer to are not part of Holy Scripture, they were not recognized in Nicea for good reason and it had nothing to do with Protestants, as Martin Luther wasn’t around.
2. The canon of Scripture was not discussed at all at the Council of Nicaea.
Reminds me, in a way, of the The Book of Kells, at Trinity College, Dublin.
What is the Book of Kells?
The Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin MS 58) contains the four Gospels in Latin based on the Vulgate text which St Jerome completed in 384AD, intermixed with readings from the earlier Old Latin translation. The Gospel texts are prefaced by other texts, including “canon tables”, or concordances of Gospel passages common to two or more of the evangelists; summaries of the gospel narratives (Breves causae); and prefaces characterizing the evangelists (Argumenta).
The book is written on vellum (prepared calfskin) in a bold and expert version of the script known as “insular majuscule”. It contains 340 folios, now measuring approximately 330 x 255 mm; they were severely trimmed, and their edges gilded, in the course of rebinding in the 19th century.
https://www.tcd.ie/library/manuscripts/book-of-kells.php
The only evidence at all that any canon of scripture was discussed at the Council of Nicea is St. Jerome’s odd claim that the Book of Judith *was* included in the canon at that Council.
The Protestant fascination with St. Jerome’s canon amazes me. If the Protestant position is true, that St. Jerome intended to insist that the deuterocanonical books were not part of Holy Scripture and that he only later insisted they were because he “caved to Popish corruption,” all that proves is that yes, the Catholic Church did have a canon at that time, and that she was so adamant on it that St. Jerome could not withstand her on the matter.
We know is that Jerome noted that the Jews among whom he studied did not consider the deuterocanonicals scripture and that he couldn’t translate what he didn’t have. We know he was scandalized by the profound differences between the Jewish and Greek versions of the bible, and that he falsely believed that the Greek versions he had were merely later, error-filled translations. (I say “falsely,” because we now know the Greek versions also predated Jesus and the citations made by Jesus match far, far more closely the Greek versions.) We know that reasonable-seeming people understood his commentary to mean he was denigrating the deuterocanonicals, but that he responded to them angrily as “fools and slanderers.”
The extended version of the prayer of the three youths in the furnace (Daniel) is one of the weekly canticles, despite being in dueterocanonical part of Daniel; it has been since antiquity central to Eastern liturgies, including the Syro-Malabar rite, which was independent from any Western influence between the 3rd and 15th centuries.
Like the Book of Hours, the Book of Kells was a breviary, that is, a subset (brief version) of the Holy Scriptures intended for daily prayer and often including the gospels, the epistles, and various prayers, canticles, psalms, etc., from the OT. (I think the Kells included only the gospels, right?) Initially used because the entire bible was too expensive for a typical scholar, seminarian or monk to keep for his private uses, such books were often highly decorated and incredibly expensive when they were the official copy of a highly esteemed place.
I apologise, you are correct with regard to Jerome.
I don’t think you’re allowed to do that on the internet. ;-) Now ya got me all flustered.
You’ve been bidding up the price, haven’t you?
Some tend to think that the Church did not allow people to read the Bible, and that is not true. Before Gutenberg and the printing press, most books had to be hand written therefore they were very expensive.
Less expensive books could be bought which had only parts of the Bible. The Church even provided for blessings if people would read to others who could not read.
Wow, if that’s what hours are expected to fetch, how much for the “Book of Days”?
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Don’t even ask about “The Book of Decades” ...
Nicea destroyed the original Christianity and substituted a power based hierarchy masquerading as Christianity.
Johann was a busy printer. /s
You can see the Gutenberg Bible in a museum in Mainz, Germany.
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