Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from an illuminated Book of Hours. It contains the opening of the Commendation of Souls, a series of psalms often found after the Office of the Dead in English or English-marketed books of hours.
Description:
Decoration: historiated initial "B" with a miniature of two souls borne to heaven by two angels, gilt; wide decorated border of blue and green acanthus with flowers and fruits, gilt., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column of 17 lines., and Script: gothic.
Subject (Geographic):
Bruges (Belgium)
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours--Early works to 1800., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--Belgium--Bruges--15th century., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
"AA" (otherwise unidentified). Formerly owned by Louis-Jean Gaignat. Formerly owned by Louis de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La Vallière. Formerly owned by Abbé Lecuy. Formerly owned by Henry Pelham, 7th Duke of Newcastle (Clumber Park). Ex libris Maurice Burrus. Purchased from Christie's on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017., Binding: 18th-century full red morocco, gilt. Gilt-tooled six-compartment spine. Spine title in second compartment, in gilt: Alain Charti., Byname: Clumber Park Chartier., Contents: Le quadrilogue invectif (1r-17r) -- Les complaintes des quatre dames (Le livre des quatre dames) (18r-38v) -- Lay de paix (39r-40v) -- Le livre d'esperance (41r-83r) -- Le breviaire des nobles (83r-86v) -- copy the rest from the thing in EC folder) get the format for the note from DCRMMSS and AMREMM, and Modern foliation, in pencil, 1-136.
Subject (Name):
Burrus, Maurice--Bookplate., Caulier, Achille., Chartier, Alain,--active 15th century., Dunois Master,--active 1430-1465., Ferrell, Elizabeth E, Ferrell, James K.--Ownership., Gaignat, Louis Jean,--1697-1768, Granson, Oton de,---1397., Gréban, Simon,---approximately 1473., La Vallière, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc,--duc de,--1708-1780, Lecuy, Abbé., Newcastle, Henry Pelham,--Duke of,--1811-1864, and Taillevent,--approximately 1315-1395.
Subject (Topic):
French literature--To 1500., French poetry--To 1500., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.