note (deco)
Full page miniatures, executed on the versos of inserted singletons, blank on the rectos; 11 are extant; presumably another 3 were once in the manuscript for terce, sext and the Office of the Dead. One 11-line miniature, f. 177. Fourteen 7-line miniatures.
provenance
Written in the early sixteenth century in Flanders, possibly for use in the diocese of Tournai, given the presence of Piatus twice in the calendar and in the suffrage, and the possibly 3 entries for Eleutherius in the calendar. Northern spellings, bietremieu, mahieu, franchois (in the calendar), tierche, lichon. Feminine forms used in the prayers. On f. i, two sixteenth century possession notes, the first identifying the owner of the book as the "vefve Franchois houselot"; in the second, the owner "yhalian [?] hogheselot" of Lille declares to have received this book from her grandmother in 1571. Belonged to William Bragge, F.S.A., of Shirle Hall, Sheffield (1823-84); his sale, Sotheby's, 7 June 1876, lot 480 to the dealer B. F. Stevens. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Grolier Club (1892) n. 23; Cat. (1909) pp. 55-56; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2341 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
