binding
Bound, s. XVIII, in Belgian brown morocco with gilt tooling; gauffered gilt edges; Dutch gilt endpapers.
provenance
Written during the middle of the fifteenth century in France, probably for use in Rouen, given the saints in the calendar; the owners may have been in the parish of the Rouen Cathedral, as suggested by Delaissé, Marrow and de Wit, Waddesdon Manor, pp. 541, n., and 554 . On ff. 1 (erased but legible) and 13, is the note in a rounded gothic hand: "Monasterii et Cellae Abbatis Septimi," which may refer to the Premonstratensians of Septfontaines near Reims. Owned by Brayton Ives (1840-1914); his sale, American Art Association, New York, 5 March 1891, n. 627. Belonged to Robert Hoe: Grolier Club (1892) n. 25 ; Cat. (1909) pp. 45-46 ; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. I, n. 2131 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
