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Auction archive: Lot number 15

BOOK OF HOURS, use of Sarum, in Latin with additional devotions in Middle English, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

Auction 09.07.2001
9 Jul 2001
Estimate
£20,000 - £30,000
ca. US$28,283 - US$42,425
Price realised:
£37,600
ca. US$53,173
Auction archive: Lot number 15

BOOK OF HOURS, use of Sarum, in Latin with additional devotions in Middle English, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

Auction 09.07.2001
9 Jul 2001
Estimate
£20,000 - £30,000
ca. US$28,283 - US$42,425
Price realised:
£37,600
ca. US$53,173
Beschreibung:

BOOK OF HOURS, use of Sarum, in Latin with additional devotions in Middle English, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [London, c.1410-1415] 174 x 110mm. i + 180 leaves: 1 6 + 1(of 6, with a final modern inserted vellum leaf), 2 8, 3 7(of 8, lacking i), 4 8, 5 4, 6-7 8, 8 2, 9-12 8, 13 6, 14-16 8, 17 6, 18 8, 19 1 0, 20 9, 21 9(of 10, lacking i), 22 1 3, 23 2, 24 9, seventeen lines written in a gothic bookhand in black or brown ink between two verticals and 18 horizontals (ff.1-147v ruled in red with the top two and the lowest horizontals across the margins, ff.148-179v ruled in brown with the outer horizontals across the margins), justification: 98 x 59mm, rubrics of red, calligraphic line-endings of blue, one- and two-line initials alternately of gold and blue with flourishing respectively of purple and red, THREE LARGE HISTORIATED INITIALS ACCOMPANIED BY FULL-PAGE BORDERS of dagged-edge acanthus of pink, blue and green against a ground of burnished gold, sprays of golden disks with green leaves and tendrils into the margins, ONE SMALL HISTORIATED AND SEVEN LARGE FOLIATE INITIALS WITH THREE-SIDED BORDERS of similar type (slight rubbing of folio 8 especially affecting the gold disks of the lower border, small spots and stains in the margins of some folios). Contemporary wooden boards covered in modern crimson velvet. Red morocco box. ILLUMINATED IN ONE OF LONDON'S LEADING WORKSHOPS AND WITH UNRECORDED MIDDLE ENGLISH DEVOTIONS PROVENANCE: 1. The Cheyne or Cheney family: two births, of Myrabyl Cheyne in 1[4]81 (14 January) and Anne Cheyne in 1480 (19 February), and the marriage of Thomas Cheyne to Johanna, daughter of John Warde, in 1479 (7 November), are recorded in the Calendar. Branches of the Cheyne family were widespread. Other books owned by Cheynes are known, for example Pierpont Morgan Library M.124, Lydgate's Fall of Princes and an Hours of Sarum use, no 13 in the Collection of the Endowment for Biblical Research with an obit for 'William Cheyne militio'. 2. Jane Ffyne: her ownership inscription written in a 16th-century hand on the verso of the medieval endleaf, is followed by the verse Let godd worke his will and let man seke hym to plese sothat godd may lowe ws wher in we shall fynde ese . 3. A brief description of the manuscript, in Latin, written on the front endleaf is signed with the monogram WA and the year 1804. 4. Henry Huth (1815-1878): his letter to Edward Cheney, dated 29 June 1874, records the despatch of the manuscript, for which Huth had paid Quaritch 60 pounds, and that he was 'glad it is now in [Cheney's] possession'. 5. Edward Cheney CONTENT: Calendar ff.1-6v; Office of the Virgin, use of Sarum, interspersed with the Hours of the Cross ff.8-48, matins f.8, lauds (lacking opening) f.16, followed by suffrages to the Holy Spirit, Sts Michael, Thomas Becket, George, Richard of Chichester, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, Thomas Becket, Lawrence, Christopher, Mary Magdalene, Catherine, Margaret, Nicholas, All Saints ff.24-31, prime f.31v, terce f.35v, sext (rubric'd ad vesperas ) f.38, none f.40, vespers f.42v, compline f.44v: sequence of prayers and devotions opening with Salve regina mater misericordie ff.48-52: Seven Penitential Psalms ff.53-70: Litany ff.70-78v: Office of the Dead ff.79-115v: Commendation of Souls ff.116-128v: sequence of prayers and devotions opening with Salve sancta facies ff.129-147v: Psalms 21-30 (lacking opening of Ps. 21) ff.148-156v: Psalter of St Jerome ff.157-169v: To the worchipe of the wonds ff.170-171:suffrages to St Apollonia f.171v: In what man[ner] preyer sholde be used ff.172-178v: suffrages to Sts Edmund and Anna in Latin followed by the prayers Almygty lord ih[es]u[s] criste the whiche for synners were bore of oure lady mayde marie and God mygtiest in mercy and lord of alle mankynde ff.178v-180. Folios 51 and 52 and 172-180 are contemporary or near-contemporary additions. The Middle English tract beginning 'When thou shappest the to pr

Auction archive: Lot number 15
Auction:
Datum:
9 Jul 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

BOOK OF HOURS, use of Sarum, in Latin with additional devotions in Middle English, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [London, c.1410-1415] 174 x 110mm. i + 180 leaves: 1 6 + 1(of 6, with a final modern inserted vellum leaf), 2 8, 3 7(of 8, lacking i), 4 8, 5 4, 6-7 8, 8 2, 9-12 8, 13 6, 14-16 8, 17 6, 18 8, 19 1 0, 20 9, 21 9(of 10, lacking i), 22 1 3, 23 2, 24 9, seventeen lines written in a gothic bookhand in black or brown ink between two verticals and 18 horizontals (ff.1-147v ruled in red with the top two and the lowest horizontals across the margins, ff.148-179v ruled in brown with the outer horizontals across the margins), justification: 98 x 59mm, rubrics of red, calligraphic line-endings of blue, one- and two-line initials alternately of gold and blue with flourishing respectively of purple and red, THREE LARGE HISTORIATED INITIALS ACCOMPANIED BY FULL-PAGE BORDERS of dagged-edge acanthus of pink, blue and green against a ground of burnished gold, sprays of golden disks with green leaves and tendrils into the margins, ONE SMALL HISTORIATED AND SEVEN LARGE FOLIATE INITIALS WITH THREE-SIDED BORDERS of similar type (slight rubbing of folio 8 especially affecting the gold disks of the lower border, small spots and stains in the margins of some folios). Contemporary wooden boards covered in modern crimson velvet. Red morocco box. ILLUMINATED IN ONE OF LONDON'S LEADING WORKSHOPS AND WITH UNRECORDED MIDDLE ENGLISH DEVOTIONS PROVENANCE: 1. The Cheyne or Cheney family: two births, of Myrabyl Cheyne in 1[4]81 (14 January) and Anne Cheyne in 1480 (19 February), and the marriage of Thomas Cheyne to Johanna, daughter of John Warde, in 1479 (7 November), are recorded in the Calendar. Branches of the Cheyne family were widespread. Other books owned by Cheynes are known, for example Pierpont Morgan Library M.124, Lydgate's Fall of Princes and an Hours of Sarum use, no 13 in the Collection of the Endowment for Biblical Research with an obit for 'William Cheyne militio'. 2. Jane Ffyne: her ownership inscription written in a 16th-century hand on the verso of the medieval endleaf, is followed by the verse Let godd worke his will and let man seke hym to plese sothat godd may lowe ws wher in we shall fynde ese . 3. A brief description of the manuscript, in Latin, written on the front endleaf is signed with the monogram WA and the year 1804. 4. Henry Huth (1815-1878): his letter to Edward Cheney, dated 29 June 1874, records the despatch of the manuscript, for which Huth had paid Quaritch 60 pounds, and that he was 'glad it is now in [Cheney's] possession'. 5. Edward Cheney CONTENT: Calendar ff.1-6v; Office of the Virgin, use of Sarum, interspersed with the Hours of the Cross ff.8-48, matins f.8, lauds (lacking opening) f.16, followed by suffrages to the Holy Spirit, Sts Michael, Thomas Becket, George, Richard of Chichester, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, Thomas Becket, Lawrence, Christopher, Mary Magdalene, Catherine, Margaret, Nicholas, All Saints ff.24-31, prime f.31v, terce f.35v, sext (rubric'd ad vesperas ) f.38, none f.40, vespers f.42v, compline f.44v: sequence of prayers and devotions opening with Salve regina mater misericordie ff.48-52: Seven Penitential Psalms ff.53-70: Litany ff.70-78v: Office of the Dead ff.79-115v: Commendation of Souls ff.116-128v: sequence of prayers and devotions opening with Salve sancta facies ff.129-147v: Psalms 21-30 (lacking opening of Ps. 21) ff.148-156v: Psalter of St Jerome ff.157-169v: To the worchipe of the wonds ff.170-171:suffrages to St Apollonia f.171v: In what man[ner] preyer sholde be used ff.172-178v: suffrages to Sts Edmund and Anna in Latin followed by the prayers Almygty lord ih[es]u[s] criste the whiche for synners were bore of oure lady mayde marie and God mygtiest in mercy and lord of alle mankynde ff.178v-180. Folios 51 and 52 and 172-180 are contemporary or near-contemporary additions. The Middle English tract beginning 'When thou shappest the to pr

Auction archive: Lot number 15
Auction:
Datum:
9 Jul 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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