note (deco)
Four miniatures, 13- or 12-line, enclosed by painted illusionistic frames in orange, blue or pink decorated with clusters of 3 white dots; the frame on f. 65 consists of alternating orange and green ribbons twined around a blue rod. Three of the miniatures are attributed to followers of Herman Scheerre (ff. 43, 65, and 104); the last miniature, f. 122, is attributed to Scheerre himself by C. Kuhn, "Herman Scheerre and English Illumination of the early Fifteenth Century," Art Bulletin 22 (1940) 138-56, especially p. 149 and fig. 11 of f. 122.
provenance
Written in England and dated ca. 1405 by C. Kuhn on the basis of style. In the lower margin of f. 1 are the initials "I.G." in a late sixteenth or early seventeenth century hand. Acquired by Dr. Eric G. Millar (1887-1966) from James Thorp in London, 1934; his notes, ff. i-ii, and on file; his sale, Sotheby's, 15 June 1959 lot 190 with a plate of all 4 miniatures. Acquired by the Huntington Library at that time.
