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[ENLUMINURE]. Leaf extracted from a book of hours.
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[ENLUMINURE]. Leaf extracted from a book of hours.
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Lot no. 9
[ENLUMINURE].
Leaf extracted from a book of hours.
In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment.
France, Paris (or Loire Valley, Tours?), circa 1475-1485.
Size: 116 x 83 mm
Leaf from a book of hours, fine regular bastard written in brown ink, two ornate initials, one painted pale grey with white highlights on a liquid gold and red-brown ground, the other pale mauve on a liquid gold and red-brown ground with a painted fly, illuminated border in the outer margin, with blue and gold acanthus leaves, liquid gold besants, coloured floral motifs.
Text: recto: prayer to the Virgin, "Mater dei precor te...", followed by prayer to the Virgin, "Deprecor te sancta maria..."; verso: continuation of the prayer to the Virgin, "pietate plenissima...".
The decoration and initials on this folio are reminiscent of the text pages in certain Fouquettian manuscripts. However, the quality of the manuscript's calligraphy may also link it to a group of manuscripts copied by an identified Parisian copyist-scribe by the name of Jean Dubreuil, documented in Paris from 1450 onwards.
This copyist, identified by Nicole Reynaud thanks to the colophon in the Hours of Jacques de Langeac (Lyon, BM, MS 5154), was studied by T. Kren, who grouped together seven other books of hours by Jean Dubreuil (see Avril and Reynaud, 1993, no. 14; Kren, 2002; Avril, 2003, no. 39). Research has since brought to light other manuscripts copied by Jean Dubreuil, for example N. Herman identifies another manuscript preserved in Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, ms. HB I 174. The calligraphy of the present folio is reminiscent of the fine, regular "bâtarde" of Jean Dubreuil, who worked in Paris but in collaboration with illuminators from both Paris (including François Barbier père, "Maître François") and Tours (see Avril and Reynaud, 1993, no. 75; Tours 1500, nos. 60 and 61). We compare it, for example, with the pages containing text copied in "small module" or "tiny module script" from the "Le Bigot Hours", attributed to Jean Dubreuil scribe, in the leaves dedicated to the gospel fragments painted by an artist following in the footsteps of Jean Bourdichon (formerly Galerie Les Enluminures; see Tours 1500, no. 61).
See Kren, T: Kren, T. "Seven Illuminated Books of Hours Written by the Parisian Scribe Jean Dubreuil, c. 1475-1485", in Reading Texts and Images: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage in Honour of Margaret M. Manion, ed. Bernard J. Muir, Exeter, 2002, pp. 157- 200; Avril, F. and N. Reynaud, Les manuscrits à peintures en France, Paris, 1993; Avril, F., Jean Fouquet. Peintre et enlumineur du XVe siècle, Paris, 2003; Chancel-Bardelot, B. et al (dir.), Tours 1 500 : Capitale des arts, Tours and Paris, 2012.
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