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{{About-distinguish|a medieval manuscript|Rules of golf}}(File:September- Four men playing a game that resembles golf - The Golf Book (1520-1530), f.27r - BL Add MS 24098.jpg|thumb|September- Four men playing a game that resembles golf)The Golf Book (British Library Add MS 24098) is the common name for an illuminated manuscript Book of Hours in the Use of Rome dating from the 1540s. Only 23 pages remain of the original created by the illuminator Simon Bening and his studio in Bruges. It owes its popular name to one illustration in the calendar, with people playing a game resembling that of golf.WEB, A Good Walk Spoiled,weblink Medieval manuscripts blog, British Library, 25 July 2014, 22 May 2013, It is presumed to have been made for a Swiss patron as the book includes a miniature painting of St Boniface of Lausanne.WEB, Add MS 24098,weblink Digitised Manuscripts, British Library, 25 July 2014, File:March- gardening and felling trees; and playing with rattles - The Golf Book (1520-1530), f.20v - BL Add MS 24098.jpg|March- gardening and felling trees; and playing with rattlesFile:May- Boating party; and archery - The Golf Book (1520-1530), f.22v - BL Add MS 24098.jpg|May- Boating party; and archeryFile:September- Ploughing, sowing and harrowing; and playing with marbles and stilts - The Golf Book (1520-1530), f.26v - BL Add MS 24098.jpg|September- Ploughing, sowing and harrowing; and playing with marbles and stilts

Description

The extant folios of the Golf Book are decorated with 21 full-page miniatures and a number of smaller paintings. In its current state the book opens with a page belonging to the suffrages of the saints, which depicts a bishop, probably St Boniface of Lausanne. The next section (folios 2v–17v) features fragments of the Little Office of the Virgin illustrated with the cycle of the Passion of Christ. The main miniatures are influenced by a series of engravings of a Passion attributed to the Master of the Gardens of Love.

• Matins: Agony in the Garden
• Lauds: Kiss of Judas
• Prime: Christ brought before Pilate
• Terce: Flagellation
• Sext: Jesus nailed to the cross
• None: Crucifixion
• Vespers: Deposition
• Compline: Burial of Jesus

The last section (folios 18v–30r) features the calendar. The representation of each month covers two facing pages, with a full-page illustration on the left-hand page showing the occupations of the months. At present, the extant folios of the book are in the wrong order; the suffrages of the saints and the Office of the Virgin are placed before the calendar.BOOK, Miranda García-Tejedor, Carlos, Golf Book, M. Moleiro Editor, 2021, 9788416509782, Barcelona, en,

See also

• Hours of Hennessy

External links

• British Library catalogue record for manuscript, item Add MS 24098
• British Library online gallery (Virtual books, accessible version)
• Facsimile edition published by M. Moleiro Editor (website includes gallery of images with descriptions)

References

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