idno
Spencer Collection Ms. 044
textLang
Latin (LA, LAT)French (FR, FRE)
summary
Book of Hours (Tournai?)
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
203
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
143
note (deco)
2- and 1-line gold initials on red and blue fields. Larger blue and red initials on gold fields. Rubrics, full border designs around miniatures, linefillers, pale yellow daubs as placemarkers. Some initials sprout vines into borders.
binding
Bound by Zaehnsdorf, 192, in full brown morocco, blind tooled in the style of the 15th century.
origDate : proposed date
c.1430-1480
note (history)
Dr. J. Plummer identified the artist as Master of the Golden Tendrils; F. Winkler writes that each of the Master's mss. includes at least one painting with a background of a golden tendril with a wine-red ground. In this ms., it appears ff. 13, 19, 91.
provenance
Written in Tournai (evidence from saints and dedication in calendar - see photo). Bookplate of William Crampton. Gift to Spencer of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness (Mary Stillman Harkness), 1941.
note (temp)
http://telma.irht.cnrs.fr/outils/luxury-bound/manuscrit2359/
