Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of a Book of Hours, use of Paris. Includes a Full calendar, Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, Seven Requests, and a sonnet, all in French
Description:
In Latin and French., Script: Written in Gothic bookhand., Sixteen miniatures from the workshops of the Lucon Master and the Master of the Duke of Bedford, in blue, pink, and gold arched frames, some with cusping. Each miniature with a lavish acanthus border incorporating arms on ff. 77r and 93r. Text pages with a 3/4 bar border, pink, blue and gold, with interlace knots at corners and terminals and delicate rinceaux, in two sizes on different folios. 3-line initials at text opening, two historiated: f. 77r and f. 93r; f. 51r with a blue and gold diapered ground; the remainder, blue with white highlights or in pink and blue acanthus filled with ivy, with blue and orange leaves, on gold, against pink, blue and/or gold grounds with white filigree; framed in gold, often with small ivy or acanthus serifs. 4- to 2-line initials in text and KL monograms, pink or blue with white highlights, filled with ivy, as above. 1-line initials blue, pink and gold with white filigree. Line endings, blue, pink and gold, three (ff. 57r, 102r, 102v) signed by Petrus Gilberti, known to have signed line-endings in at least four other manuscripts. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Gilt edges. Red velvet with a silver fastening and a silver medallion, with unidentified male figure preaching, in center of upper board.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Devotional literature, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Hand-ruled and rubricated throughout; capitals supplies in gold on red and blue backgrounds. Hand-colored illustrations are: the printer's device on page [1], the skeleton and surrounding figures on page [2], full-page illustration of Bathsheba and David, full-page illustration of Mary surrounded by emblems (partially reconstructed when original text was removed and replaced with ms. insert?), and 18 small illustrations throughout., BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Imperfect: comprising 70 leaves (numbered in pencil), with lacunae after leaves 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 23, 30, 37, 51, 54. Text of leaves 59-60 and 65-66 has been cut out and manuscript text inlaid within the borders instead. The signatures appear to have been erased throughout., BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Printed on vellum. Bound in morocco with gilt tooling and edges; emblematical clasp. Dealer's description on front paste-down., BEIN 1971 439: Rubricated. Printed on vellum. Illustration of the Annunciation (page [25]) completely hand-colored. Armorial bookplate of Clarence Sweet Bement. Ownership inscription of Baron de Jean Haussonville. Contemporary manuscript annotations in several hands on the final pages, indicating events occurring in specific years. Brown blind-tooled leather binding., Signatures: A-L⁸ M⁴., Title from title-page on page [1], which bears Gilles Hardouyn's printer's device - all within an architectural frame. The device is repeated on page [184]., Imprint from colophon on page [184]: "Les presentes heures a lusaige de Ro[m]me tout au long sans rien requerir. Ont este acheuees a paris le huitiesme iour de Mars. Lan mil cinq ce[n]s et neuf. Par Gilet Hardouyn Imprimeur demourant au bout du pont au change a lenseige de la Rose desoub[-]z de la belle ymage"., Almanac on page [3] covers years 1508-1520, in French., In a Gothic type., Illustrated throughout with 19 full page illustrations, and several smaller cuts within the text., With a decorative border (primarily historiated or architectural) to every page., "R" (for Rome) on first four leaves of each quire, in a line with the signature., Initial spaces., and Collation and signatures given according to P. Lacombe, Livres d'Heures imprimés au XVe et au XVIe siècle, 199.
BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Hand-ruled and rubricated throughout; capitals supplies in gold on red and blue backgrounds. Hand-colored illustrations are: the printer's device on page [1], the skeleton and surrounding figures on page [2], full-page illustration of Bathsheba and David, full-page illustration of Mary surrounded by emblems (partially reconstructed when original text was removed and replaced with ms. insert?), and 18 small illustrations throughout., BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Imperfect: comprising 70 leaves (numbered in pencil), with lacunae after leaves 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 23, 30, 37, 51, 54. Text of leaves 59-60 and 65-66 has been cut out and manuscript text inlaid within the borders instead. The signatures appear to have been erased throughout., BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Printed on vellum. Bound in morocco with gilt tooling and edges; emblematical clasp. Dealer's description on front paste-down., BEIN 1971 439: Rubricated. Printed on vellum. Illustration of the Annunciation (page [25]) completely hand-colored. Armorial bookplate of Clarence Sweet Bement. Ownership inscription of Baron de Jean Haussonville. Contemporary manuscript annotations in several hands on the final pages, indicating events occurring in specific years. Brown blind-tooled leather binding., Signatures: A-L⁸ M⁴., Title from title-page on page [1], which bears Gilles Hardouyn's printer's device - all within an architectural frame. The device is repeated on page [184]., Imprint from colophon on page [184]: "Les presentes heures a lusaige de Ro[m]me tout au long sans rien requerir. Ont este acheuees a paris le huitiesme iour de Mars. Lan mil cinq ce[n]s et neuf. Par Gilet Hardouyn Imprimeur demourant au bout du pont au change a lenseige de la Rose desoub[-]z de la belle ymage"., Almanac on page [3] covers years 1508-1520, in French., In a Gothic type., Illustrated throughout with 19 full page illustrations, and several smaller cuts within the text., With a decorative border (primarily historiated or architectural) to every page., "R" (for Rome) on first four leaves of each quire, in a line with the signature., Initial spaces., and Collation and signatures given according to P. Lacombe, Livres d'Heures imprimés au XVe et au XVIe siècle, 199.
Manuscript on parchment (greatly trimmed) of a fragment of a Book of Hours. The twenty-six folios are the only fragment known to remain of the Book of Hours of Blanche of Burgundy (d. 1348), Countess of Savoy and granddaughter of Saint Louis of France, which was executed in Paris in the atelier of Jean Pucelle. The manuscript received additional texts and miniatures in the third quarter of the fourteenth century, when it was owned by Charles V, King of France, 1364-80.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in gothic bookhand; ff. 1r, 1v, 4r, and 4v added in the third quarter of the fourteenth century by Jean L'Avenant., Contains fifty of the original two hundred and fifty-five miniatures, the majority executed between Pucelle's death in 1334 and Blanche's death in 1348, the remainder between ca. 1370 and 1378, the terminus ante quem being the death of Charles's wife, Jeanne de Bourbon, represented on one of the destroyed leaves. All of the miniatures are in tricolor quatrefoils, the first, earlier set against pink or blue grounds with white filigree, gold frames and gold leaves on hair-line stems, the later miniatures with the grounds in pink or blue imitation relief., Each folio with a 3/4 bar border, detached from initial, pink, blue and gold with ivy terminals, or a single bar with ivy attached to initial, in inner margin; some with grotesque terminals, and birds and hunters in the margins and bas-de-page. 2-line initials, with heads, ivy, the arms of Savoy (ff. 2r, 14r, 18v, etc.) or the arms of Burgundy (f. 3v); blue or pink with white highlights on gold grounds. 1-line initials, blue or gold with red or black penwork. Line endings, red, blue and gold, on ff. 1 and 4 only. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Red-brown sheepskin heavily gold-tooled with floral borders and corner fans, the center filled in with a circle made up of fan tools.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pucelle, Jean, fl. 1320. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
