leaf dimensions : height (mm)
90
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
142
note (deco)
Copies of miniatures from two Books of Hours, showing Saint John on Patmos (fol. 1r), Saint Luke painting in his studio (fol. 2r), Saint Matthew writing at a desk (fol. 3r), Saint Mark at his desk (fol. 4r), the Virgin and Child among cherubim (fol. 5r), the Annunciation (fol. 6r), the Visitation (fol. 7r), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 8r), the Nativity (fol. 9r), the Magi (fol. 10r), the Presentation in the Temple (fol. 11r), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 12r), the Crucifixion (fol. 13r), Pentecost (fol. 14r), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 15r), a burial and angels taking a soul to God (fol. 16r), and David and Nathan (fol. 17r).
binding
Bound in dark red velvet over pasteboards, paper endleaves, rebacked; in a salmon-pink cloth case.
origPlace : proposed origin
London
note (history)
Thirteen of the miniatures here, all except those of the Evangelists, are copied precisely from a French Book of Hours then in Jarman’s possession, illuminated about 1460 by the Master of Jean Rolin.
provenance
John Boykett Jarman (d. 1864, aged 82); his sale, Sotheby’s, 13 June 1864, lot 78; Cecil Dunn Gardner; his sale, Sotheby’s, 21 June 1880, lot 823, to Ellis; William H. Crawford (1812-1888), of Lakelands, Blackrock, Cork, with his bookplate; his sale, Sotheby’s, 12 March 1891, lot 1666; Henry Walton Lawrence; his sale, Sotheby’s, 15 December 1892, lot 235, to Robson; C. L. Ricketts, bought from Robson, cat. 96 (1915), no. 219; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
note (temp)
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/Ricketts140_40
