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Auction archive: Lot number 8

BOOK OF HOURS, use apparently of Troyes, in Latin with addit...

Estimate
£30,000 - £40,000
ca. US$48,368 - US$64,491
Price realised:
£67,250
ca. US$108,425
Auction archive: Lot number 8

BOOK OF HOURS, use apparently of Troyes, in Latin with addit...

Estimate
£30,000 - £40,000
ca. US$48,368 - US$64,491
Price realised:
£67,250
ca. US$108,425
Beschreibung:

BOOK OF HOURS, use apparently of Troyes, in Latin with additions in Catalan, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
BOOK OF HOURS, use apparently of Troyes, in Latin with additions in Catalan, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [France, perhaps Champagne, possibly Troyes, third quarter of 13th century] 120 x 90mm. i + 119 leaves: 1 6 (of 8, lacking iii, probably blank, and vi; i is the pastedown), 2-11 8 , 12 4 , 13-15 8 , 16 7 (of 8, lacking vii, probably blank; viii the pastedown), occasional catchwords, 12 lines written in brown ink in a formal gothic bookhand in two sizes according to liturgical function, between two verticals and 13 horizontals ruled in plummet, justification: 85 x 60mm, rubrics and calendar entries in red, some capitals touched red, line-endings in red and blue, the lower margin of each recto with a diagonal sword-shaped ornament in red and blue, two-line initials in gold infilled and surrounded by a field of rose and blue, with white tracery ornament, ONE FIVE-LINE AND EIGHT FOUR-LINE HISTORIATED INITIALS EACH WITH A GOLD GROUND, from which spring extensions into the outer and sometimes also upper margins (lacking one calendar leaf and two blanks, some thumbing and darkening of leaves, some rubbing and flaking of pigment, the decoration in the lower margin somewhat cropped, the pastedowns somewhat wormed). MEDIEVAL SPANISH BINDING of late 14th- or 15th-century brown leather blind-tooled with rope-work stamps over wooden boards, sewn on three double bands (nail holes at the fore-edge from a missing clasp and catch, minor worming to the upper cover). Red solander box. AN EXCEPTIONALLY EARLY AND APPEALING BOOK OF HOURS OWNED BY A CATALAN TEXTILE MERCHANT, IN A FINE EARLY MUDéJAR BINDING PROVENANCE: 1. Apparently written for, and perhaps at, Troyes. The Hours of the Virgin is not entirely consistent with the Troyes text of the later Middle Ages, but where it deviates it usually corresponds with the readings of Sens, about 35 miles to the west. The only French saint in red in the calendar is St Remi of Reims (in which diocese Troyes lay), but Nichaise of Reims is in black, and one of the few other localisable saints is Lupus of Sens (1 September). 2. Late-13th or early 14th-century Spanish owners, surely itinerant textile merchants, used the blank flyleaves for memoranda concerning their stock and the Champagne Fairs (see below), two of which were held in Troyes. They also had a number of southern French and Spanish entries added to the calendar, including 'Eulalia barch.' (i.e. of Barcelona, 12 February), her translation (24 October), Ermengardus bishop of Urgell (3 November), and the dedication of Barcelona cathedral (18 November). Another Spanish owner made further alterations to the calendar and had the volume rebound. 3. Laurence Witten, New Haven, Catalogue 4 (1957) no 53, with his(?) pencil annotations on a front flyleaf. CONTENT: Calendar, lacking the end of February and beginning of March ff.1-12; f.12v blank; Hours of the Virgin ff.13-88v: matins f.13, lauds f.29v, prime f.46v, terce f.55, sext f.60, none f.65, vespers f.70v, compline f.80v; Seven Penitential Psalms ff.89-110; Litany of saints, petitions, and two collects ff.110-118v. This is one of the earliest surviving independent French Books of Hours, similar in size and page-layout to the de Brailes Hours (BL, Add. ms 49,999), the earliest surviving English example. It contains only the most essential contents of a Book of Hours, without additional texts such as the Hours of the Cross and Holy Spirit, or Office of the Dead. The upper pastedown and facing page are inscribed, in Catalan, with a list of quantities of textiles, beginning: '[Dra]p [d]arras -- xlvi al Pelos darras -- xl al Drap engles -- xlviii al . . .' The place-names include Arras, England, Châlons, Ypres, Ghent, Lille, Douai, Cambrai, Valenciennes, St-Quentin, Bonneville, Monsteruel, St-Omer, Beauvais, Provins, Huy, Saintes, Venice, Trieste, Reims, Vitry, and St-Fergera. Similar lists of textiles are printed in Bienvenido Oliver y Esteller, Historia del derecho en Cataluña, Mallorca y Vale

Auction archive: Lot number 8
Auction:
Datum:
6 Jul 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
6 July 2011, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

BOOK OF HOURS, use apparently of Troyes, in Latin with additions in Catalan, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
BOOK OF HOURS, use apparently of Troyes, in Latin with additions in Catalan, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [France, perhaps Champagne, possibly Troyes, third quarter of 13th century] 120 x 90mm. i + 119 leaves: 1 6 (of 8, lacking iii, probably blank, and vi; i is the pastedown), 2-11 8 , 12 4 , 13-15 8 , 16 7 (of 8, lacking vii, probably blank; viii the pastedown), occasional catchwords, 12 lines written in brown ink in a formal gothic bookhand in two sizes according to liturgical function, between two verticals and 13 horizontals ruled in plummet, justification: 85 x 60mm, rubrics and calendar entries in red, some capitals touched red, line-endings in red and blue, the lower margin of each recto with a diagonal sword-shaped ornament in red and blue, two-line initials in gold infilled and surrounded by a field of rose and blue, with white tracery ornament, ONE FIVE-LINE AND EIGHT FOUR-LINE HISTORIATED INITIALS EACH WITH A GOLD GROUND, from which spring extensions into the outer and sometimes also upper margins (lacking one calendar leaf and two blanks, some thumbing and darkening of leaves, some rubbing and flaking of pigment, the decoration in the lower margin somewhat cropped, the pastedowns somewhat wormed). MEDIEVAL SPANISH BINDING of late 14th- or 15th-century brown leather blind-tooled with rope-work stamps over wooden boards, sewn on three double bands (nail holes at the fore-edge from a missing clasp and catch, minor worming to the upper cover). Red solander box. AN EXCEPTIONALLY EARLY AND APPEALING BOOK OF HOURS OWNED BY A CATALAN TEXTILE MERCHANT, IN A FINE EARLY MUDéJAR BINDING PROVENANCE: 1. Apparently written for, and perhaps at, Troyes. The Hours of the Virgin is not entirely consistent with the Troyes text of the later Middle Ages, but where it deviates it usually corresponds with the readings of Sens, about 35 miles to the west. The only French saint in red in the calendar is St Remi of Reims (in which diocese Troyes lay), but Nichaise of Reims is in black, and one of the few other localisable saints is Lupus of Sens (1 September). 2. Late-13th or early 14th-century Spanish owners, surely itinerant textile merchants, used the blank flyleaves for memoranda concerning their stock and the Champagne Fairs (see below), two of which were held in Troyes. They also had a number of southern French and Spanish entries added to the calendar, including 'Eulalia barch.' (i.e. of Barcelona, 12 February), her translation (24 October), Ermengardus bishop of Urgell (3 November), and the dedication of Barcelona cathedral (18 November). Another Spanish owner made further alterations to the calendar and had the volume rebound. 3. Laurence Witten, New Haven, Catalogue 4 (1957) no 53, with his(?) pencil annotations on a front flyleaf. CONTENT: Calendar, lacking the end of February and beginning of March ff.1-12; f.12v blank; Hours of the Virgin ff.13-88v: matins f.13, lauds f.29v, prime f.46v, terce f.55, sext f.60, none f.65, vespers f.70v, compline f.80v; Seven Penitential Psalms ff.89-110; Litany of saints, petitions, and two collects ff.110-118v. This is one of the earliest surviving independent French Books of Hours, similar in size and page-layout to the de Brailes Hours (BL, Add. ms 49,999), the earliest surviving English example. It contains only the most essential contents of a Book of Hours, without additional texts such as the Hours of the Cross and Holy Spirit, or Office of the Dead. The upper pastedown and facing page are inscribed, in Catalan, with a list of quantities of textiles, beginning: '[Dra]p [d]arras -- xlvi al Pelos darras -- xl al Drap engles -- xlviii al . . .' The place-names include Arras, England, Châlons, Ypres, Ghent, Lille, Douai, Cambrai, Valenciennes, St-Quentin, Bonneville, Monsteruel, St-Omer, Beauvais, Provins, Huy, Saintes, Venice, Trieste, Reims, Vitry, and St-Fergera. Similar lists of textiles are printed in Bienvenido Oliver y Esteller, Historia del derecho en Cataluña, Mallorca y Vale

Auction archive: Lot number 8
Auction:
Datum:
6 Jul 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
6 July 2011, London, King Street
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