leaf dimensions : height (mm)
217
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
140
justification : height (mm)
134
justification : width (mm)
81
condition
Incomplete, missing three gatherings of text, seventeen of the miniature.
note (deco)
Elaborate cadels in the upper margins including faces touched in coloured wash; Twelve double Calendar miniatures at the foot of fols. 1r–6v showing the Occupations of the Months and the signs of the Zodiac; twenty small miniatures, showing scenes from each of the nine readings from the book of Job in the Office of the Dead (fols. 53v, 54v, 55r, 59r, 59v, 60v, 65r, 65v and 66v) and a larger 14-line miniature of Job and his family giving thanks (fol. 69v), together with suffrage miniatures showing the Meeting at the Golden Gate (fol. 71r) and Saints Michael (fol. 71v), Anthony and Sebastian (both fol. 72r), Anthony of Padua (fol. 73r), Laurence and Anne with a kneeling donor (both fol. 73v), Mary Magdalene (fol. 74r), Katherine (fol. 74v) and Margaret (fol. 75r); five full-page miniatures, showing the Annunciation, set in a gothic church (fol. 7r, Matins), the Visitation, before a tall gothic castle (fol. 20r, Lauds, a bit smudged), the Nativity (fol. 30r, unexpectedly for Terce), the Circumcision (fol. 33r, None), and David outside his palace, being admonished by Nathan who points to Uriah and Bathsheba, watched by a figure of Death (fol. 39r, Penitential Psalms).large and small initials throughout in liquid gold on blue and brown grounds
binding
Sixteenth-century binding of wooden boards covered with calf and morocco gilt, each cover with a sunken central panel 143 mm. by 54 mm. of paler brown morocco, raised outer frame with oval inserts in each corner in pale brown morocco with embossed plaquettes in medallions showing a Roman empress in profile facing to the left, all profusely gilt with volutes and strapwork designs, spine gilt, parchment endleaves; in a fawn cloth case.
origPlace : proposed origin
Grenoble? Lyon?
provenance
Thouvin, sieur du Bouillon, lawyer, of Lassay, Maine (central France), 1717 (inscription on flyleaf signed ‘Thibault’), and by descent to Madame Villatte à Lassay; the Rev. Walter Sneyd (1809-1888), who also owned no. 78 above; his sale, Sotheby’s, 16 December 1903, lot 383; Charles William Dyson Perrins (1864–1958), who also owned no. 61 above, with his bookplate, but rejected from the collection before it was catalogued; Rudolf Busch, of Mainz; his sale, Baer, Frankfurt, 4 April 1921, lot 273; sold again among "other properties" at Sotheby’s, 7 February 1923, lot 568, to Quaritch; C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
Miniature of the Virgin with Child sold at https://www.lesenluminures.com/artworks/categories/9/9646-p-master-of-the-apocalypse-of-aymar-de-poitiers-c.-1480-1490/
note (temp)
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/Ricketts136_40