textLang
Latin (LA, LAT)French (FR, FRE)
summary
Book of Hours, undetermined use
note (text)
F. 31-85= Off. B. M. V.; F. 107-132= Off. Defunct. (avec 3 lect.); (CCLL)
extent
II+II+162+I ff. (CCLL)
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
180
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
129
justification : height (mm)
104
justification : width (mm)
71
note (deco)
Eleven full page miniatures on the versos of inserted singletons, blank on the recto, related in style to those of the Master of Guillebert de Mets and the Master of the Privileges of Ghent; the borders on the facing text pages do not match those on the illuminated pages. The miniatures were repainted in varying degree, perhaps in the seventeenth century. Historiated initials, usually 3-line, not repainted.
binding
Bound, s. XVI, in pink velvet, very worn, over wooden boards; 2 gilt fore edge clasps; gilt edges; offset of binding reinforcement, apparently a document in French, s. XV2, on inside front cover and on the recto of the now lifted pastedown.
origDate : proposed date
c.1450-1475
provenance
Written in the middle of the fifteenth century in Flanders; liturgical use undetermined. The miniatures may not have been originally intended for this book, since the borders don't match; those for sext and none appear reversed, with the Presentation in the Temple preceding the Adoration of the Magi; all the full-page miniatures have been repainted. A possession note on the back flyleaf identifies a late sixteenth century owner as Johannes Hullandt; in another inscription, ca. 1600 (?), Carolus Hullandt "vicecomes Rolariensis villae" (Rousselaere?) gives the book to Catarina van Huerne. On the front flyleaf, f. i verso, are pious phrases and the inscription "Vertu pour guide, Jacqueline van." On f. ii verso, the inscriptions, "This Book belonged to Queen Mary of Scotland And shee used it at her death upon the Scaffold" (legible only under ultra-violet light), and "The above the Hand writing of King James the [?] 2," (s. XIX). A letter from Charles Browne Mostyn to Sir Gregory O. Page-Turner dated 1822 repeats this information, adding that the book eventually passed to the Scots College in Paris, where Mostyn obtained it during the Revolution. The letter, once loose in the manuscript, is now shelved as HM 46702. Sold at the Page-Turner sale, Battlesden House, 19 October 1824, probably n. 2524; Samuel Addington sale, Sotheby's, 24 May 1886, n. 285 to Nattali; belonged to Charles Butler (1821-1910); his sale, Sotheby's, 18 March 1912, pt. III, n. 2377 to Sabin. Purchased from the Minneapolis bookseller and collector, Edmund D. Brooks by William K. Bixby (1857-1931) of St. Louis (St. Louis Republic, 18 March 1917, Feature section, p. 1). Acquired from him by Henry E. Huntington through G. D. Smith in August 1918.
note (temp)
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