Pontifical of Gilles de Luxembourg.

Made for Giles of Luxembourg (bishop 1503; d. 10 February 1535) bishop and count of Châlons-sur-Marne, perhaps for his consecration in 1503 (Luxembourg arms on folio 1 surmounted by an episcopal crozier); remained in Châlons-sur-Marne after his death (16th-17th-century names inscribed on front pastedown and on 7 other pages); Convent of Recollect Friars in Châlons-sur-Marne (17th-century ownership inscription on folio 1 and probably late 18th-century stamp on folios 1v, 24, and 39v); 7th Earl of Hopetoun (his armorial bookplate and shelfmark T.12); his sale (London, Sotheby's, 25 February 1889, lot 823) to Ellis; Rev. E.S. Dewick (d. 1917); his sale (London, Sotheby's, 17 October 1918, lot 114) to Ellis; Sotheby's sale, "other properties" (London, 24 November 1921, lot 485); Maggs Catalogue 849, Florence & Tuscany: Music, 1958, no. 351; Christies' sale, "The Property of a Lady" (London, 16 November 1977, lot 317) to Alan Thomas; Sam Fogg, London; purchased from Sam Fogg on the Acquisitions Fund and the E. Clark Stillman Fund in November, 1996.