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Auction archive: Lot number 1018

[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT – 15TH CENTURY].

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US$35,250
Auction archive: Lot number 1018

[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT – 15TH CENTURY].

Estimate
US$0
Price realised:
US$35,250
Beschreibung:

THE INGOLDISTHORPE PSALTER. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, in Latin and French. [Southern Netherlands (Bruges): c.1465]. 275 leaves. 144 x 104 mm. Apparently complete, final leaf a bifolio from a 14th-century Breviary with one- and two-line initials in blue flourished with red or red flourished with blue, 16 lines in black ink written in a gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, some line-endings in blue and red, text capitals touched yellow, one- and two-line initials of blue flourished with red or in red flourished with dark blue, three-line initials of burnished gold with red and blue grounds and white tracery, ONE SMALL MINIATURE and ELEVEN HISTORIATED INITIALS between seven and five lines high with staves of gold patterned with black on grounds of grisaille patterned with white. 17th-century English black paneled calf over wooden boards ruled and stamped in blind, with central crowned thistle. Slight water staining to lower outer corner and edge of bottom margin of all folios, ff.1-8, 105-118 and 272-274 extensive stains, ff.61v and 62r with pencil doodles of two mustachioed men on margins, some smudging to most illuminated and historiated initials, rebacked, extremities rubbed. PROVENANCE: 1. The illumination suggests the Psalter was made in Bruges and the calendar has saints for the region highlighted, such as Vedast and Amand, Gildard and Medard, Bertin, Lambert and Bavo. British saints, however, predominate, showing that the book was made for the English market. In March, for instance, are David, Chad, Edward Martyr, and Cuthbert. The Litany includes Gildard and Medard from the Netherlands and Alban, Swithin and Edith from England. 2. Joan Tiptoft, Lady Ingoldisthorpe (1425-1494), and possibly the book’s commissioner. “Praye ffor the sowle of my Lady Ingoldesthorp” appears on f.274v in a 15th- or early 16th-century hand. Joan Tiptoft was born in 1425, the daughter of John, created Lord Tiptoft and then Earl of Warwick, and Joyce, daughter and co-heiress of Edward, Lord Charleton, and Eleanor Holand. In 1435 Tiptoft married Joan to his ward Sir Edmund Ingoldisthorpe of Borough Green, Cambridgeshire (d.1456). Lady Ingoldisthorpe was eventual co-heiress to her parents, when her brother, John Tiptoft, second Earl of Worcester, was executed in 1470. In her will, made shortly before her death in 1494, she asked to be buried in Blackfriars, London, where her brother lay [G.E.C., Complete Peerage; J. Roskell, L. Clark and C. Rawcliffe, The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1386-1421, 1992, II, pp.475-477, IV, pp.620-628; J. Wedgwood, The History of Parliament. Biographies of Members of the Commons House 1439-1509, 1936, p.493; W. Palmer, A History of the Parish of Borough Green, 1939, pp.59-60, 91-925.] The second Earl of Worcester, who studied at Padua 1459-1461, had amassed a considerable collection of humanist manuscripts intended for the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to raise the standard of Latin in England (Duke Humfrey’s Library and the Divinity School, Bodleian Library, 1988, pp.70-80). His sister Joan’s liking for fine books was also satisfied by Bruges illuminators, the traditional supplier of liturgical manuscripts to the English market; the second husband of their elder sister, Philippa, was Edward Grimston, who had been painted in Bruges by Petrus Christus in 1446. 3. Parish church of the Holy Trinity, Much Wenlock, Shropshire, before the Reformation, with feasts of St. Milburga and her invention, f. 6v, added to the Calendar. Milburga’s cult centered on her 11 relics in the Cluniac Priory at Wenlock, Shropshire. Joan, Lady Ingoldisthorpe, held some of her mother’s family lands in Shropshire, at Lydham and Pontesbury, and may have acquired a devotion to St. Milburga from her mother. Conceivably, Wenlock was the site of her chapel foundation, mentioned in her will without identifying details, to which the Psalter could have been given. The injunction to pray for her soul could have been added for Wenl

Auction archive: Lot number 1018
Auction:
Datum:
14 Nov 2005
Auction house:
Bonhams London
San Francisco 220 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco CA 94103 Tel: +1 415 861 7500 Fax : +1 415 861 8951 info.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

THE INGOLDISTHORPE PSALTER. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, in Latin and French. [Southern Netherlands (Bruges): c.1465]. 275 leaves. 144 x 104 mm. Apparently complete, final leaf a bifolio from a 14th-century Breviary with one- and two-line initials in blue flourished with red or red flourished with blue, 16 lines in black ink written in a gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, some line-endings in blue and red, text capitals touched yellow, one- and two-line initials of blue flourished with red or in red flourished with dark blue, three-line initials of burnished gold with red and blue grounds and white tracery, ONE SMALL MINIATURE and ELEVEN HISTORIATED INITIALS between seven and five lines high with staves of gold patterned with black on grounds of grisaille patterned with white. 17th-century English black paneled calf over wooden boards ruled and stamped in blind, with central crowned thistle. Slight water staining to lower outer corner and edge of bottom margin of all folios, ff.1-8, 105-118 and 272-274 extensive stains, ff.61v and 62r with pencil doodles of two mustachioed men on margins, some smudging to most illuminated and historiated initials, rebacked, extremities rubbed. PROVENANCE: 1. The illumination suggests the Psalter was made in Bruges and the calendar has saints for the region highlighted, such as Vedast and Amand, Gildard and Medard, Bertin, Lambert and Bavo. British saints, however, predominate, showing that the book was made for the English market. In March, for instance, are David, Chad, Edward Martyr, and Cuthbert. The Litany includes Gildard and Medard from the Netherlands and Alban, Swithin and Edith from England. 2. Joan Tiptoft, Lady Ingoldisthorpe (1425-1494), and possibly the book’s commissioner. “Praye ffor the sowle of my Lady Ingoldesthorp” appears on f.274v in a 15th- or early 16th-century hand. Joan Tiptoft was born in 1425, the daughter of John, created Lord Tiptoft and then Earl of Warwick, and Joyce, daughter and co-heiress of Edward, Lord Charleton, and Eleanor Holand. In 1435 Tiptoft married Joan to his ward Sir Edmund Ingoldisthorpe of Borough Green, Cambridgeshire (d.1456). Lady Ingoldisthorpe was eventual co-heiress to her parents, when her brother, John Tiptoft, second Earl of Worcester, was executed in 1470. In her will, made shortly before her death in 1494, she asked to be buried in Blackfriars, London, where her brother lay [G.E.C., Complete Peerage; J. Roskell, L. Clark and C. Rawcliffe, The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1386-1421, 1992, II, pp.475-477, IV, pp.620-628; J. Wedgwood, The History of Parliament. Biographies of Members of the Commons House 1439-1509, 1936, p.493; W. Palmer, A History of the Parish of Borough Green, 1939, pp.59-60, 91-925.] The second Earl of Worcester, who studied at Padua 1459-1461, had amassed a considerable collection of humanist manuscripts intended for the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to raise the standard of Latin in England (Duke Humfrey’s Library and the Divinity School, Bodleian Library, 1988, pp.70-80). His sister Joan’s liking for fine books was also satisfied by Bruges illuminators, the traditional supplier of liturgical manuscripts to the English market; the second husband of their elder sister, Philippa, was Edward Grimston, who had been painted in Bruges by Petrus Christus in 1446. 3. Parish church of the Holy Trinity, Much Wenlock, Shropshire, before the Reformation, with feasts of St. Milburga and her invention, f. 6v, added to the Calendar. Milburga’s cult centered on her 11 relics in the Cluniac Priory at Wenlock, Shropshire. Joan, Lady Ingoldisthorpe, held some of her mother’s family lands in Shropshire, at Lydham and Pontesbury, and may have acquired a devotion to St. Milburga from her mother. Conceivably, Wenlock was the site of her chapel foundation, mentioned in her will without identifying details, to which the Psalter could have been given. The injunction to pray for her soul could have been added for Wenl

Auction archive: Lot number 1018
Auction:
Datum:
14 Nov 2005
Auction house:
Bonhams London
San Francisco 220 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco CA 94103 Tel: +1 415 861 7500 Fax : +1 415 861 8951 info.us@bonhams.com
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