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BOOK OF HOURS, use of Paris, in Latin and French , ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Paris, c.1460, with two gatherings French, c.1400] 111 x 82mm. iv + 230 + iv leaves (modern foliation includes ff.115bis, 118bis and 222bis): 1 12 , 2-13 8 , 14 7 (of 8, viii cancelled blank), 15-21 8 , 22 8 (f.174 a 16th-century replacement), 23 8 , 24 8 (f.189 a 16th-century replacement), 25 6 , 26 8 , 27 7 (of 8 lacking i with miniature on verso), 28 10 (of 8, c.1400, + viii/ix contemporary with body of book), 29 4 (c.1400), 14 lines written in black ink in a formal gothic bookhand between two verticals and 15 horizontals ruled in pink, justification 63 x 40mm, rubrics in red, text capitals touched yellow, one- and two-line initials in burnished gold on divided grounds of blue and pink patterned with white, similar line-endings, three-line initials with staves of blue or pink patterned with white on grounds of burnished gold with foliate or flower infills, every page with a two-line initial with a border in the outer side margin of hairline tendrils with burnished gold leaves and disks and small painted flowers in pink, blue and green, two similar three-sided borders with bars of burnished gold, THIRTEEN LARGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURES with bars of burnished gold and full-page borders of sprays of fruit, flowers and acanthus in blue, green, red and liquid gold interspersed with burnished gold disks, one incorporating birds; c.1400 section, ff.215-227, 12 lines written in black ink in a formal gothic bookhand, between two verticals and 13 horizontals ruled in grey, one- and two-line initials as above, the larger initials with hairline tendrils with red and blue terminals, two four-line initials with staves in pink or blue on grounds of the contrasting colour with foliate infills on burnished gold with bar borders with vine stems in burnished gold, red, blue and white (lacking one leaf with miniature, all miniatures and many borders with some degree of wear). Brown morocco by Maltby of Oxford. PROVENANCE: 1. The content and style of illumination show that the book was made in Paris; prayers are in the masculine. 2. James P.R. Lyell (1871-1949): leather bookplate inside upper cover; B.D.V. 27/11/37 pencilled on fourth added leaf at front probably records his purchase. Lyell bequeathed to the Bodleian Library the choice of 100 manuscripts from his collection of about 250 acquired between 1936 and 1942. The bulk of the remainder were sold to Quaritch. 3. Gordon H. Craine: bookplate on first added leaf, note of purchase 1954, cutting from Quaritch catalogue 699, 1952, no.77, pasted-in. CONTENT: Parisian Calendar, with St Genevieve in red 3 January, ff.1-12; Gospel extracts ff.13-20; Obsecro te ff.20-25v; O intemerata ff.25v-28; Office of the Virgin, use of Paris, ff.29-115v: matins f.29, lauds f.59v, prime f.74v, terce f.82v, sext f.88v, none f.94, vespers f.99v, compline f.108v; Penitential Psalms ff.115bis-131; Litany ff.131-136; Hours of the Cross ff.136v-140v; Hours of the Holy Spirit ff.141-144v; Office of the Dead, use of Paris, lacking end (ff.174 and 189 16th-century replacements) ff.145-207v; Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, lacking opening ff.208-214v; Fifteen Joys of the Virgin (reused section of c.1400) ff.215-221v; Seven Requests to Our Lord (reused section of c.1400 except for inserted bifolium 222/222bis) ff.221-227. ILLUMINATION: Although worn, these fine miniatures show all the characteristics that made the Master of Jean Rolin II the leading illuminator in Paris in the two decades from about 1445. The pose of the Virgin relates the Crucifixion in this manuscript to the much larger and more crowded composition in one of the Master's name works, the Missal of Jean Rolin II in Lyons (Bib. municipale, Ms 517; see. F. Avril and N. Reynaud, Les manuscrits à peintures en France , Paris, 1993, pp.38-45). Other compositions are the result of the close collaboration between him and the Dunois Master, the inheritor of the patterns of the B