Accession number
MS M.960
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.960).
Created
France, ca. 1420.
Binding
Brown calf gilt French fanfare binding of about 1600, with some compartments containing plumed heads and vases of flowers; spine is flat, gilt, with a long rectangular panel surrounded with sprays of palm and laurel in the manner of spines on bindings made for Pietro Duodo; edges gilt.
Credit line
Purchased on the Glazier Fund in memory of William S. Glazier, 1974.
Description
121 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 165 x 116 mm
Provenance
The original owner was a man named John, whose motto was Pour son vouloir, and who is shown with his patron saint, John the Baptist, on fol. 117; Jean de la Noé, Sieur de la Bastille, and Anthoine de la Noé, whose names are inscribed on fol. 64, 113, 116v (late 16th or early 17th century); Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921), with bookplate; C.W. Dyson Perrins (1864-1958), his no. 37, with bookplate; his sale, London, Sotheby's, Dec. 9, 1958, lot 17; to Arthur Rau (1898-1972); Hans P. Kraus.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Châlons-sur-Marne (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, Calendar, and Litany); written and illuminated in France, about 1420.
Collation: I6, II6, III8, IV4, V8, VI8, VII7, VIII2, IX8, X7, XI8, XII6, XIII8-XVI8, XVII6, XVIII5.
Decoration: written in black ink; 9 large miniatures, each with a full floral border with birds and insects and the motto: Pour son vouloir; 9 large illuminated initials (3 are historiated); 164 small illuminated initials with gold ivy leaf marginal extensions, and numerous smaller illuminated initials.
Artist: Master of Walters 219.
Collation: I6, II6, III8, IV4, V8, VI8, VII7, VIII2, IX8, X7, XI8, XII6, XIII8-XVI8, XVII6, XVIII5.
Decoration: written in black ink; 9 large miniatures, each with a full floral border with birds and insects and the motto: Pour son vouloir; 9 large illuminated initials (3 are historiated); 164 small illuminated initials with gold ivy leaf marginal extensions, and numerous smaller illuminated initials.
Artist: Master of Walters 219.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and French
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