note (deco)
Twenty-three full page miniatures, on the versos of what are apparently inserted singletons, blank on the recto.
binding
Bound by Lortic for Robert Hoe in brown mosaic morocco in 1884, from a previous binding of "old velvet," according to a note on f. iii signed by Hoe; red morocco doublures; gilt edges.
provenance
Written in the middle of the fifteenth century in Flanders, probably Bruges, for export to England; on f. 1, s. XVI, is the note "Jesus have marci a pon us/ Johannes busshells boke tayller," and below this, the name "Arthur," erased. The book was n. 606 in an English book dealer's catalogue, and later, apparently, belonged to Dawson Turner (1775-1858), who signed a slip of paper quoting Sir Francis Palgrave, Sir Frederic Madden, and Mr. Shaw on the date and origin of the manuscript; these opinions are dated 1832 and 1835; Dawson Turner sale, London, 7 March 1853, n. 1880 to Pickering. Robert Hoe signed and dated the same slip mentioned above with his date of purchase (?), 1872. See Robert Hoe, A Lecture on Bookbinding as a Fine Art, delivered before the Grolier Club February 26, 1885 (Grolier Club 1886) pl. 58; Grolier Club (1892) n. 17; Bierstadt (1895) p. 25; Cat. (1909) pp. 50-52; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. I, n. 2129 to G. D. Smith. Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
