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050 00 $aND3363.R53$bS87 1990
082 00 $a745.6/7/0942$220
100 1 $aSutton, Anne F.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83217190
245 14 $aThe Hours of Richard III /$cby Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs.
260 $aStroud. Glos. ;$aWolfeboro Falls, NH :$bA. Sutton for Richard III & Yorkist History Trust,$c1990.
300 $aviii, 133 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 ccm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [113]-123) and indexes.
505 0 $a1. General Introduction. Books of Hours -- 2. The Manuscript, its Scheme of Decoration and Status -- 3. The Illumination: Style, Workmanship and Date. English Illumination in the early Fifteenth Century. The Historiation of the Hours of Richard III: Annunciation, Christ in Judgement and Funeral. The Portrait Heads. Border, Initials and Colour -- 4. Ownership -- 5. Analysis of Contents -- 6. The 'Prayer of Richard III'. Text and Translation -- 7. Richard III's Piety.
520 $aRichard III (1452-1485) is one of the most controversial figures in medieval history. In 1483 he succeeded his brother Edward IV on the throne of England, setting aside his nephews who were declared illegitimate. To establish himself he had to execute several opponents and crush one rebellion. During the two years of his reign his only son and his wife died.
520 8 $aIn administrative terms his rule was not unsuccessful but its full potential was never realised for he failed to defeat an invasion led by Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII, losing his crown and his life at the battle of Bosworth on 22 August 1485.
520 8 $aAs a man's religious convictions can be considered fundamental to his character and behaviour, Richard's piety has naturally provoked comment, and conclusions have been made linking his piety with his crimes and a need to atone. Some of these theories have drawn on material in the Hours, especially 'his' prayer, but none have been based on any real inspection or understanding of the manuscript or of the prayer's text and purpose. A study of the Hours is therefore long overdue.
520 8 $aLambeth Ms. 474, here styled the Hours of Richard III, was not made originally for the King. It was produced in London about 1420 for an unknown owner, possibly a cleric. It is a text of unusual length and some distinctive features. At some date after 6 July 1483, the date of his coronation, Richard III chose to use this text as his personal book of hours.
520 8 $aBoth its liturgical contents and its decoration presumably appealed to Richard III. The text shows the preoccupations of a devout man of the fifteenth century and its decoration puts it in the context of the development of London manuscript illumination in the same period. Richard III chose a very useful, solid, unflamboyant and English manuscript for his daily use--one that can be shown to be entirely in keeping with the other books he owned. He seems to have chosen his books for their contents.
650 0 $aBooks of hours.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85062530
610 20 $aLambeth Palace Library.$kManuscript.$n474$vIllustrations.
600 00 $aRichard$bIII,$cKing of England,$d1452-1485.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80037043
650 0 $aIllumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic$zEngland.
650 0 $aIllumination of books and manuscripts, English.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89005503
653 $aChristian life - Devotional works
700 1 $aVisser-Fuchs, Livia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91011067
710 2 $aRichard III and Yorkist History Trust.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91054913
740 0 $aHours of Richard the Third.
852 00 $bglx$hND3363.R53$iS87 1990