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This sequence for the Christian Feast of Pentecost (a time celebrating the descent of the Holy Spirit) was played by multiple medieval and early modern clocks including at the Abbey of Averbode, a Premonstratensian monastery now located in Belgium. After a catastrophic fire at the Abbey in 1499, the house’s accounts record that bell founders from ’s-Hertogenbosch were paid to comb the ashes of the ruined Abbey church to salvage metal for the new clock and bells. Gradual from the Abbey of Averbode, AA ms IV 419, fol. 163r. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614aa87ad02d691d52517185/1633055748210-YT8QO36I78QAG67167T9/7Luther+Vater+Unser+1558+Edition.jpg Exhibition - Vater Unser im Himmelreich The reformer Martin Luther’s German version of the Lord’s Prayer was a popular choice for melodies played on the clocks associated with reform-minded rulers in sixteenth-century northern Europe. This chorale melody can still be heard on surviving clocks including the famous Isaac Habrecht clock of the late sixteenth century. Now housed in the British Museum, this astonishing clock was built in imitation of the cathedral clock of Strasbourg. From Martin Luther, Geystliche Lieder (Nuremberg: Gabriel Hain, 1558). Image from Bayerische StaadtsBibliothek Liturg. 742, p. 84, available here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614aa87ad02d691d52517185/1633568194457-9CG2BC9HBVV2A6SJWVIC/Conditor.jpeg Exhibition - Conditor alme siderum This hymn, now known as ‘Creator of the Stars of Night’, was sung during the season of Advent leading up to Christmas. It was played on the first mechanical clock known to play a named melody on its bells. According to a later compilation of medieval chronicles from Normandy, the clock was installed at the monastery of Ste Catherine in Rouen in 1321. The chronicle entry reads: ‘at that time, a clock was placed in the said church of Saint Catherine, which was easily heard at Roncherolles [a nearby village]. Indeed, it was constructed so that it pronounced the hymn Conditor alme siderum in an unaccustomed yet pleasing manner.’ Conditor alme siderum, from a noted breviary of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, c.1300. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 15181, fol. 106r. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614aa87ad02d691d52517185/061a57f6-8268-49e0-8811-e60d2711409e/Gothic+Iron+Clock.jpg Exhibition - Make it stand out Smaller wall clocks such as this example from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge became a feature of elite domestic interiors in the later fifteenth century. Families of clock makers, such as the Liechti workshop in Winterthur, were renowned for these instruments that could include alarm mechanisms alongside sounding the hours. This particular clock has two bells which chimed the hours and quarter hours. The clock has its weights removed and is modified to stand on a surface. These extremely heavy iron devices required a combination of specialist geometrical knowledge and practice with manipulating materials. Source: Gothic Iron Clock, c.1500-1550. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, M.25-1938. https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-3113140014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614aa87ad02d691d52517185/b66c7ee7-2cc4-425b-bd0a-7f7e9530a785/Picture+47.png Exhibition - Make it stand out This hand-coloured frontispiece comes from a printed German translation of a fifteenth-century Latin work known as the Horologium devotionis (‘The Clock of Devotion’). The clock of the frontispiece is surmounted by a bell that stands between figures of Mary and the angel Gabriel. Bells associated with the story of the Annunciation were common in medieval and early modern Europe, triggering devotional prayers such as the Angelus. This prayer involved believers saying the words of Gabriel’s greeting to the Virgin Mary, and was often prayed in the morning, at midday, and in the evening. Source: Bertoldus, Das andechtigzitgloegglyn des lebens und lidens christi. Basel: [Johann Amerbach], 1492. Copy from the University and City Library of Cologne, AD +S167. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614aa87ad02d691d52517185/1633568068159-WT2978BS8IOW0GLQLF9A/Picture%2B44.jpg Exhibition This image comes from a manuscript of the French translation of the Horologium sapientiae, the ‘Clock of Wisdom’ a text by the fourteenth-century Dominican Henry Suso. In the image, a seated and crowned King Solomon, the figure associated with wisdom, is shown working on the mechanics of a large standing clock. The addition of a lively crucifix on the summit of the clock’s case, rising beyond the bell and hammer at the crown of the object, shows how the clock’s sounds were often made a devotional prompt in the period. Source: Henri Suso, "Horloge de Sapience", Illuminated by the Master of Margaret of York, Bruges, c.1470-1480. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Manuscrits, fr. 455 f. 9. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614aa87ad02d691d52517185/09ee9c8f-2a8b-49ae-a629-0a8da81b04ad/Picture+29+%232.png Exhibition - Make it stand out These diagrams of clock wheels and mechanisms are found in the so-called Almanus Manuscript of the late fifteenth century. The manuscript was written by a German friar named Brother Paul. Paul lived in Rome from around 1475 and his notebook includes descriptions and measurements of a variety of devices owned by clerics in the city. This image is part of the section of the manuscript on a ‘beautiful clock from Flanders’ owned by the Cardinal Oliviero Carafa of Naples. This is the only one of the thirty clocks in the manuscript that played a two note ‘melodia’ on its bells. Source: Almanus Manuscript, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, 2 Cod 209, fol. 14v. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614aa87ad02d691d52517185/dde19307-89ba-4b8d-919d-6f0586f3a067/Durer.png Exhibition - Make it stand out The silence of the sandglass played an important role in the emerging characterization of the scholar in humanist Europe. In this famous image, St Jerome is absorbed in his work, not fixated on the passing of time. The silent sandglass shows both his focus and his turning away from any distractions of the temporal world. Source: Albrecht Dürer, St Jerome, 1514. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Acc. No. 19.73.68. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614aa87ad02d691d52517185/ed9fb65f-966f-48fa-9d2a-dc3da0c898a9/Sanduhr.png Exhibition - Make it stand out Silent sandglasses could be used to trigger the sounds that rang out over early modern cities to mark time’s passage. These glasses from the tower of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig were used to measure the passing of the hours with as much precision as possible. At the top of the device, two putti play a trumpet and a cornett. Trumpeters were often paid to sound the hours on city walls and towers, and their apocalyptic resonances (the last trumpet) also became associated with force and power of bells. Source: Sanduhr from the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, seventeenth century. Basel Historisches Museum Inv. 1880.190. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614aa87ad02d691d52517185/236c7ab5-279c-4931-b438-e96e8db89f46/Japan.jpeg Exhibition - Make it stand out In this image from a late seventeenth-century Japanese book of trades, a seated craftsman uses a file on a geared clock wheel. On a workbench in front of the clockmaker lie other wheels and tools of the trade. To the rear of the image are two standing clocks with their mechanisms obscured, apart from their prominent bells (which perhaps mirror the bald head of the seated clock maker, and alongside the flared base of the clock, perhaps suggest an anthropomorphic object). The sound techniques and aesthetics of these clocks involved a fusion of Jesuit and local bell cultures. Source: Jinrin kinmo zui 5, 5b, c.1690. National Diet Library Digital Collections, Japan. https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/2592443/8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614aa87ad02d691d52517185/67cbf480-00a4-4b75-b1e1-42dc66ff0bc6/Tower+Clock.png Exhibition - Make it stand out This mechanism from a tower clock includes a large drum wheel that triggered music on a set of tuned bells. Made by Heynrick Vabrie in Leuven in around 1542, and later modified, it was originally installed in the church of St James in The Hague. Weighing in at c.3000 kg, the expense and knowledge required to produce this mechanism shows the material complexity of these time measurement devices and their importance to communities. Source: Tower Clock from the Hague Heynrick Vabrie, Leuven, c. 1542. Utrecht, Museum Speelklok, image by Matthew Champion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614aa87ad02d691d52517185/1635990024820-E90A7V0C0AEZOFXD7K0K/Picture%2B25.jpg Exhibition - Make it stand out This enigmatic image of a sleeping nun forms part of series of images of a nun's life painted in the German-speaking lands of the early sixteenth century. The image can be seen as a reflection (or perhaps advertisement) of a well-ordered nun’s life, with modern comforts including food, heater, and a clock to wake her to the ordered rhythms of monastic prayer. But the image also allows other interpretations. In a warm room, and with enticing food laid out before her, the nun sleeps, unlike those wise virgins of the biblical parable who stayed awake to wait for their bridegroom. Behind her, the weights of the clock hang, almost touching her body. The clock needs to be wound for the alarm to sound to call her to watch and wait. Its silence is, perhaps, deadly. Source: Circle of Bernhard Strigel, A Sleeping Nun, c.1500. Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Inv. no Gm576. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614aa87ad02d691d52517185/d6e3ffca-0973-4df1-98d8-45106f9d6399/Death+With+Hourglass.png Exhibition - Make it stand out Sandglasses were an important feature of time measurement from their invention in the fourteenth century. These devices were unusual in an early modern soundscape of time that was largely based on the ringing of bells. Silent measures of time’s passing were more easily used as ways of showing the surprise of death’s approach, and as a warning that the end of time would come to all, regardless of social status. Source: Death with an Hourglass, Oberrhein, c.1600. Basel Historisches Museum, Inv. 1870.116 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614aa87ad02d691d52517185/3bfa23ef-e907-4cd3-87dc-b3fbcce5cfa0/Picture+64.jpg Exhibition - Make it stand out This late sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century clock pendant was made in the German city of Mainz by Urban Hörle. Beneath a rock crystal cover, the clock dial is surrounded by golden arma Christi (the instruments of Christ’s passion) and an image of the Crucifixion. Above the clock dial is the cock which crowed to signal Peter’s betrayal of Christ. The cock’s crow was a sound associated with waking from sleep and the recognition of sinfulness. Source: Cross-Shaped Clock by Urban Hörle, German, c. 1600. Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John L. Severance 1929.997. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614aa87ad02d691d52517185/f5f8f1db-8158-4952-901c-43fc4963d505/Picture+65.jpg Exhibition - Make it stand out This late sixteenth-century watch made in Grenoble uses a variety of techniques and significant materials to place emphasis on the relationship between time and eternity, including enamelled gold, rock crystal and a pearl. The clock’s dial evokes the multiple wings of the seraphs that surround God’s throne in the Christian tradition. To be worn on the chest, this elite object is a reminder of time’s preciousness. Designed to be worn as a pendant, the ticking of the watch mirrors the heart beat, seeking to construct a connection between the time of Christ and the time of the believer. Source: Cross-Shaped Clock, French, c. 1580-1600. Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John L. Severance 1929.996. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614aa87ad02d691d52517185/d3621136-1189-4ecb-aff0-574e0f0390ca/al-Jazari.jpg Exhibition This folio from a Mamluk manuscript dated 715 AH/1315 CE comes from al-Jazari’s early thirteenth-century Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Devices. Alongside an elaborate mechanism where a ball was dropped into the mouth of a winding dragon eventually triggering a sounding gong, the device included a singing bird every half hour. Bird song was often associated with the measurement of time with strong regional variations – the daily times of the dawn chorus, the cock’s crow, the return of particular birds to roost, alongside seasonal changes to the ornitho-soundscape tied to rhythms of reproduction and migration. Source: Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari, 'Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices', copy by Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif, AH 715/1315 CE. 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