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1027 - Book of Hours, in Latin, use not identified.

Estimation 15 000 € - 18 000 €

Description

Book of Hours, in Latin, use not identified. Sm. 4to, 19,5 x 14,0 cm: [120] ff., vellum, Latin text in a brown Gothic hand on 15 lines (writing area 10,0 x 7,6 cm), 3 paper endlvs at each side (traces of cuttings along inner margin on several places, probably lacking 3 or 4 lvs, some sm. clear stains or light smudges in text and on 2 miniatures, later marginal annot. 85v°). - Content: Calendar in French, extracts from the Gospels of St John and St Matthew, Hours of the Virgin, Litany of the Saints, Prayer to the Virgin Mary, etc. - Illumination: 6 large gold-heightened arch-topped miniatures (11,0 x 7,5 cm), each on 4 lines of text, figuring the 4 Evangelists altogether in 1 frame, the Annunciation, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the temple, Nativity and King David in prayer. Each miniature in a three-quarter border with peacocks, a dragon, birds, acanthus leaves, grapes, flowers and foliage. - Decoration: One-, two- and three-line initials and line-ends in blue and red with burnished gold. Few margins with small floral decoration. - Localization, attribution and dating: Calendar with local saints of Rouen as Ouen, Philibert, Romain and Mellon. Compositions, style and details of the illumination by a follower of the Master of the Échévinage de Rouen (or the Master of the Geneva Latini), a vast group of prolific craftsmen who spread their production allover Normandy and abroad in the later 15th c. To compare with similar manuscripts in the following auction catalogues: The library of William Foyle, part I, Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, London, Christie's, 11.7.2000, lot 47; Western manuscripts and miniatures, London, Sotheby's, 17.6.2003, lot 93; Paris, Artcurial, 14.6.2017, lot 7. - Prov. Janne Labbey, contemporary ms. annotation at bottom of p. 1 of calendar, which could be identified as Janne Labbey, dame of Cormolain, Boussigny, etc., married to Jehan d'Argouges, who died on 28 June 1496 as one can read on his tomb once in the abbey church of Saint Mary at Longues (Calvados, Normandy), now in the Museum of Bayeux (cf. Revue archéologique, 16e année, n° 1, 1859, p. 184). - G. Martin (2 different modern vignettes).

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Date 26/06/2026 à 13h00

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