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BRMS 13

Title

Subject

Catholic Prayers and Devotions - Books of Hours

Description

Extremely colorful and resplendent with burnished gold leaf, the tiny book features fifteen miniatures and ten lively vignettes of the Labors of the Months in the calendar, each set within pinnacled Gothic niches and surrounded in the margins by elaborate decorative motifs and fantastical hybrid creatures. Illuminated in the vicinity of St. Omer near the Franco-Flemish border, the Sellers Hours was produced for Sarum Use, featuring particular texts and devotions to local saints preferred by English owners, including a rare memorial to St. Thomas Becket of Canterbury and an illustration for devotion to the English martyr Thomas, Earl of Lancaster.

Source

BRMS 13. Book of Hours. Use of Sarum. Flanders or Northern France (St. Omer?), ca. 1325–1330. Illuminated manuscript on vellum.

Publisher

Bridwell Library Special Collections

Date

ca. 1325–1330

Rights

Please cite Bridwell Library Special Collections, SMU, as the source of this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained by contacting Special Collections (bridsc@smu.edu).

Relation

BookofHours

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

Type

Illuminated manuscript on vellum

Collection

Highlights from the Ruth and Lyle Sellers Medical Collection

Citation

“BRMS 13,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed December 9, 2025, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1751.