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Auction archive: Lot number 29

BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rouen, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIP...

Estimate
£30,000 - £50,000
ca. US$46,444 - US$77,407
Price realised:
£49,875
ca. US$77,214
Auction archive: Lot number 29

BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rouen, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIP...

Estimate
£30,000 - £50,000
ca. US$46,444 - US$77,407
Price realised:
£49,875
ca. US$77,214
Beschreibung:

BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rouen, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rouen, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Rouen, c.1465] 124 x 90 mm. ii + 259 leaves: two inserted leaves, followed by 1 1 2 , 2-3 8 , 4 4 , 5-15 8 , 16 7 (of 8, lacking i), 17-35 8 ; ff.22v, 157-159v, 188v-191v and 277-279v are ruled blanks, 16 lines written in brown ink in a formal calligraphic bâtarde script between two verticals and 17 horizontals ruled in red, rubrics in purple-red, text capitals touched yellow, line-endings in blue and gold, one-line initials alternately in burnished gold and blue or in blue and red, at least one two-line initial on the vast majority of pages, in blue or pink with foliate infills on burnished gold grounds, each accompanied by a border to the outer margin of acanthus and sprays of flowers and fruit, and occasional flower-pots, with gold disks and leaves on hairline tendrils, FIFTEEN LARGE MINIATURES WITH FULL BORDERS OF STYLIZED ACANTHUS AND SEMI-NATURALISTIC FRUIT AND FLOWERS, the first on a gold ground, a further full border at the beginning of the weekday hours, these and several other prayers each with a four-line initial (lacking one leaf after f.120, occasional minor flaking, the penultimate border smudged, minor thumbing and creases). Blind-tooled straight-grained brown morocco, the spine lettered in gilt 'Liber Praecum M. S.', gilt edges, with the binder's ticket 'Bound by C. Hering, 10 St Martin's Street'. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE BOOK OF HOURS, WITH UNUSUAL CONTENTS, BY THE MASTER OF THE GENEVA LATINI, THE LEADING ROUEN ILLUMINATOR OF THE THIRD QUARTER OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY PROVENANCE: The calendar points clearly to Rouen, with Martial (3 July) and Romanus of Rouen (23 October) in gold, plus Sever (1 February), Austreberta (10 February), Hugh (9 April), Ouen (5 May), Ursin (12 May, 30 December), Taurin of Evreux (11 August) and Mellon (22 October); in the litany, the martyrs end with Bernardino (canonised in 1450), Ouen, Jerome, Maurus, Mellon, and Romanus, and the virgins include Austreberta. The Office of the Dead is almost identical to Sarum Use (using a variant also found in Huntington Library HM. 1145 and HM. 1166) as a result of the English Occupation of Rouen from 1419 to 1449. Prayers use masculine forms. An owner probably from the Southern Netherlands or Northern France in the late 15th or 16th century added her impaled coat of arms on the verso of the first inserted leaf: her family arms of argent , a créquier vert , are impaled by those of her husband, sable , three lions argent langued and armed gules ; their arms are repeated separately above; below left the arms of his mother, sable , three crescents or ; below right the arms of her mother, vert , a fess ermine, a label of three points azure . Her paternal arms, with the addition of a canton, and maternal arms, identified as a branch of the Oignies or Ongnies family, are recorded as appearing together in the church of Carvin, near Lille; the créquier is best known in the canting arms of the Créquy family of Artois, or a créquier gules . Her husband's arms were borne by several families, among them the de Rampemont of Hainault in the 14th century. It is likely that the owner and her husband came from the southern Netherlands and that the book had left Normandy by this date. On the verso of the second added leaf are the arms of their daughter, also in a lozenge, impaled by those of her husband, argent , a fess sable charged with three mullets or , and surrounded by their parents' arms in a similar arrangement; his maternal arms are possibly blazoned as azure , three cinquefoils argent , a dove argent but the cinquefoils may be intended to be on bezants and the bird's identity is unclear. Her husband's arms were borne by the Jongelinx and by the Assonleville of Artois, although the latter also used mullets pierced. These coats of arms differ in execution from those of her mother and were presumably added when the book was passed on to the next generation. Bound c.1800 by Charles He

Auction archive: Lot number 29
Auction:
Datum:
12 Jun 2013
Auction house:
Christie's
12 June 2013, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rouen, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rouen, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Rouen, c.1465] 124 x 90 mm. ii + 259 leaves: two inserted leaves, followed by 1 1 2 , 2-3 8 , 4 4 , 5-15 8 , 16 7 (of 8, lacking i), 17-35 8 ; ff.22v, 157-159v, 188v-191v and 277-279v are ruled blanks, 16 lines written in brown ink in a formal calligraphic bâtarde script between two verticals and 17 horizontals ruled in red, rubrics in purple-red, text capitals touched yellow, line-endings in blue and gold, one-line initials alternately in burnished gold and blue or in blue and red, at least one two-line initial on the vast majority of pages, in blue or pink with foliate infills on burnished gold grounds, each accompanied by a border to the outer margin of acanthus and sprays of flowers and fruit, and occasional flower-pots, with gold disks and leaves on hairline tendrils, FIFTEEN LARGE MINIATURES WITH FULL BORDERS OF STYLIZED ACANTHUS AND SEMI-NATURALISTIC FRUIT AND FLOWERS, the first on a gold ground, a further full border at the beginning of the weekday hours, these and several other prayers each with a four-line initial (lacking one leaf after f.120, occasional minor flaking, the penultimate border smudged, minor thumbing and creases). Blind-tooled straight-grained brown morocco, the spine lettered in gilt 'Liber Praecum M. S.', gilt edges, with the binder's ticket 'Bound by C. Hering, 10 St Martin's Street'. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE BOOK OF HOURS, WITH UNUSUAL CONTENTS, BY THE MASTER OF THE GENEVA LATINI, THE LEADING ROUEN ILLUMINATOR OF THE THIRD QUARTER OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY PROVENANCE: The calendar points clearly to Rouen, with Martial (3 July) and Romanus of Rouen (23 October) in gold, plus Sever (1 February), Austreberta (10 February), Hugh (9 April), Ouen (5 May), Ursin (12 May, 30 December), Taurin of Evreux (11 August) and Mellon (22 October); in the litany, the martyrs end with Bernardino (canonised in 1450), Ouen, Jerome, Maurus, Mellon, and Romanus, and the virgins include Austreberta. The Office of the Dead is almost identical to Sarum Use (using a variant also found in Huntington Library HM. 1145 and HM. 1166) as a result of the English Occupation of Rouen from 1419 to 1449. Prayers use masculine forms. An owner probably from the Southern Netherlands or Northern France in the late 15th or 16th century added her impaled coat of arms on the verso of the first inserted leaf: her family arms of argent , a créquier vert , are impaled by those of her husband, sable , three lions argent langued and armed gules ; their arms are repeated separately above; below left the arms of his mother, sable , three crescents or ; below right the arms of her mother, vert , a fess ermine, a label of three points azure . Her paternal arms, with the addition of a canton, and maternal arms, identified as a branch of the Oignies or Ongnies family, are recorded as appearing together in the church of Carvin, near Lille; the créquier is best known in the canting arms of the Créquy family of Artois, or a créquier gules . Her husband's arms were borne by several families, among them the de Rampemont of Hainault in the 14th century. It is likely that the owner and her husband came from the southern Netherlands and that the book had left Normandy by this date. On the verso of the second added leaf are the arms of their daughter, also in a lozenge, impaled by those of her husband, argent , a fess sable charged with three mullets or , and surrounded by their parents' arms in a similar arrangement; his maternal arms are possibly blazoned as azure , three cinquefoils argent , a dove argent but the cinquefoils may be intended to be on bezants and the bird's identity is unclear. Her husband's arms were borne by the Jongelinx and by the Assonleville of Artois, although the latter also used mullets pierced. These coats of arms differ in execution from those of her mother and were presumably added when the book was passed on to the next generation. Bound c.1800 by Charles He

Auction archive: Lot number 29
Auction:
Datum:
12 Jun 2013
Auction house:
Christie's
12 June 2013, London, King Street
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