BOOK OF HOURS, use of Langres, in Latin and French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [eastern France, c.1510].
BOOK OF HOURS, use of Langres, in Latin and French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [eastern France, c.1510]. 198 x 130mm. iii paper + 108 + iii paper leaves with modern foliation 1-109 omitting 81, COMPLETE , ruled space: 73 x 113 mm. THREE SMALL MINIATURES , two with partial borders, FOURTEEN LARGE MINIATURES WITH FULL BORDERS , eight of them of Renaissance architectural forms (some loss of pigment affecting miniature depicting the Flight into Egypt on f.53v). Modern red morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf. Red morocco box with Pell crest. PROVENANCE : (1)The Office of the Virgin is for the use of Langres; the Office of the Dead has only three lessons, which conform to Langres use; the calendar seems to have been adapted towards Langres use: St Mammes, to whom Langres Cathedral is dedicated (11 May) and Didier of Langres (22 May for 23 May) have been underlined in red. The book was made for the lady who appears in the miniature on f.98. She was presumably the wife, or daughter, of the merchant whose mark appears on the shield held by the angel in the border of f.13. (2) JOHN NAYLOR OF LEIGHTON HALL , Montgomeryshire, Wales (1813-1889): armorial bookplate dated 1860 inside upper cover. One of the heirs of the immensely wealthy Leyland-Bullin Liverpool mercantile and banking firm, John Naylor rebuilt Leighton Hall in a grandiose medieval style, with a tower as well as a library wing, and amassed a considerable collection of painting and sculpture. He was also responsible for building Leighton church: a handsome book of hours could have appealed to his piety as well as his ‘medieval’ tastes. (3) HENRY WHITE , JP DL FSA , of 30 Queen’s Gate, London and of Stone, Dartford, Kent, d.1900: the sale of his notable library, Sotheby’s, 21 April 1902, lot 1129. (4) THE HON. HERBERT CLAIBORNE PELL JNR of Newport, Rhode Island (1884-1961): armorial bookplate inside upper cover, with manuscript note ‘Bought 1923 Paris chez Mme. Belin’; de Ricci p.2134: by descent to the present owner. Letter loose in box recording loan by C.T.H. Pell for an exhibition at the Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island, 1983. CONTENT : Calendar ff.1-6; Gospel extracts ff.7-12; Office of the Virgin, use of Langres, with seasonal variations ff.13-61v; Hours of the Cross ff.62-64v; Hours of the Holy Spirit ff.65-67v; Penitential Psalms and litany ff.69-85; ruled blank f.84v; Office of the Dead (3 lessons only) ff.86-97v; Prayer to Christ Conditor celi et terre in the masculine ff.98-100v; rubric for prayers to the saints f. 100v; prayers to Sts John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Nicholas ff.101v-102v; prayers to Sts Anne, Catherine, Margaret, Barbara, ff.103v-105v; Obsecro te in the masculine ff.105v-107v; added prayers to Christ O bonne [sic] Jesu o piissime jesu and on the elevation of the host and the chalice ff.107v-109v. ILLUMINATION : The finest miniatures, including the large miniatures on ff.7, 13, 53v, 69 and 98 are by the Master of Antoine de Roche, named from the Missal made c.1500 for the Grand Prior of Cluny (BnF ms lat. 881; F. Avril and N. Reynaud, Les manuscrits a peintures , 1993, no 226). Antoine de Roche (1422-1505) came from Poligny in the Franche-Comté and was a lecturer in canon law at the University of Dole. The Master has therefore been associated with eastern France, a deduction supported by the present book and by the relationship of his soft, free manner of painting and imaginative compositions with those of the Masters of the Burgundian Prelates. His distinctive double-arched gold architectural frames with inscriptions are attractively deployed here to produce effectively full-page miniatures ‘interrupted’ by the text on fictive scrolls. Their classicising architecture is typical of the revival of interest in the Italianate legacy of Jean Fouquet that accompanied the new receptiveness to Italian art fostered by the presence of French armies in Italy from 1494. The Master was awarded at least one extremely pres
BOOK OF HOURS, use of Langres, in Latin and French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [eastern France, c.1510].
BOOK OF HOURS, use of Langres, in Latin and French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [eastern France, c.1510]. 198 x 130mm. iii paper + 108 + iii paper leaves with modern foliation 1-109 omitting 81, COMPLETE , ruled space: 73 x 113 mm. THREE SMALL MINIATURES , two with partial borders, FOURTEEN LARGE MINIATURES WITH FULL BORDERS , eight of them of Renaissance architectural forms (some loss of pigment affecting miniature depicting the Flight into Egypt on f.53v). Modern red morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf. Red morocco box with Pell crest. PROVENANCE : (1)The Office of the Virgin is for the use of Langres; the Office of the Dead has only three lessons, which conform to Langres use; the calendar seems to have been adapted towards Langres use: St Mammes, to whom Langres Cathedral is dedicated (11 May) and Didier of Langres (22 May for 23 May) have been underlined in red. The book was made for the lady who appears in the miniature on f.98. She was presumably the wife, or daughter, of the merchant whose mark appears on the shield held by the angel in the border of f.13. (2) JOHN NAYLOR OF LEIGHTON HALL , Montgomeryshire, Wales (1813-1889): armorial bookplate dated 1860 inside upper cover. One of the heirs of the immensely wealthy Leyland-Bullin Liverpool mercantile and banking firm, John Naylor rebuilt Leighton Hall in a grandiose medieval style, with a tower as well as a library wing, and amassed a considerable collection of painting and sculpture. He was also responsible for building Leighton church: a handsome book of hours could have appealed to his piety as well as his ‘medieval’ tastes. (3) HENRY WHITE , JP DL FSA , of 30 Queen’s Gate, London and of Stone, Dartford, Kent, d.1900: the sale of his notable library, Sotheby’s, 21 April 1902, lot 1129. (4) THE HON. HERBERT CLAIBORNE PELL JNR of Newport, Rhode Island (1884-1961): armorial bookplate inside upper cover, with manuscript note ‘Bought 1923 Paris chez Mme. Belin’; de Ricci p.2134: by descent to the present owner. Letter loose in box recording loan by C.T.H. Pell for an exhibition at the Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island, 1983. CONTENT : Calendar ff.1-6; Gospel extracts ff.7-12; Office of the Virgin, use of Langres, with seasonal variations ff.13-61v; Hours of the Cross ff.62-64v; Hours of the Holy Spirit ff.65-67v; Penitential Psalms and litany ff.69-85; ruled blank f.84v; Office of the Dead (3 lessons only) ff.86-97v; Prayer to Christ Conditor celi et terre in the masculine ff.98-100v; rubric for prayers to the saints f. 100v; prayers to Sts John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Nicholas ff.101v-102v; prayers to Sts Anne, Catherine, Margaret, Barbara, ff.103v-105v; Obsecro te in the masculine ff.105v-107v; added prayers to Christ O bonne [sic] Jesu o piissime jesu and on the elevation of the host and the chalice ff.107v-109v. ILLUMINATION : The finest miniatures, including the large miniatures on ff.7, 13, 53v, 69 and 98 are by the Master of Antoine de Roche, named from the Missal made c.1500 for the Grand Prior of Cluny (BnF ms lat. 881; F. Avril and N. Reynaud, Les manuscrits a peintures , 1993, no 226). Antoine de Roche (1422-1505) came from Poligny in the Franche-Comté and was a lecturer in canon law at the University of Dole. The Master has therefore been associated with eastern France, a deduction supported by the present book and by the relationship of his soft, free manner of painting and imaginative compositions with those of the Masters of the Burgundian Prelates. His distinctive double-arched gold architectural frames with inscriptions are attractively deployed here to produce effectively full-page miniatures ‘interrupted’ by the text on fictive scrolls. Their classicising architecture is typical of the revival of interest in the Italianate legacy of Jean Fouquet that accompanied the new receptiveness to Italian art fostered by the presence of French armies in Italy from 1494. The Master was awarded at least one extremely pres
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