Grey-FitzPayn Hours
The Hours Grey- FitzPayn is a great band, not comparable with the tiny Hours of Jeanne d' Evreux, where it is in time by at least twenty years ahead. It was a wedding gift from Sir Richard de Grey for his bride Joan FitzPayn.
Description
It is the hour of prayer to the Trinity, the opening verse is marked with the initial D ( " Domine, labia mea Aperies " ), with the enthroned Christ, which left him kneeling, clothed with a coat of arms Coat Joan FitzPayn blesses.
The evolving from the initial figurative border contains further down the page a small initial with Joan's portrait and extends up and down in the side edge of a platform for moving hunting scenes. Top dogs chasing a rabbit, unnoticed by boar and lion. At the bottom of the page there is a deer hunt; here is a rabbit, motionless and with big ears cowers under the adopted animal to which an arrow by an archer pierces the neck in the right corner, as it zuspringt a lion and a fuchsschwänziges animal that appears to observe a prey.
The on the outer edge climbing up a tree goat is a well-known already in Mesopotamian art design, but also a process that the artist was able to observe every day in his own garden. The birds, popular topic in English manuscripts of this period are very finely executed as carefully consider the coats of arms and the blessing Christ figure in the background.
Stylistically show miniatures and borders of the Grey - FitzPayn Book of Hours French Gothic influence in connection with English accuracy of observation, especially in the representation of birds and animals. The drolleries, grotesque and hunting scenes, giving the pages of this book so much movement, are also found in other manuscripts of that time.
History
The Grey- FitzPayn wedding took place in 1300 / 01, and since 1308 Joan died, the date of origin of the manuscript can be set up on a couple of years exactly. King Edward II of England visited Sir Richard de Grey, his big trailer 1322 Codnor, after he had beaten back one of the Scottish raids to Yorkshire; but since he did not reach the claims of his father Edward I in Scotland, there was a rapid peace and the marriage of his daughter Joan, owner of Taymouth -hour book, with David II of Scotland.