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Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [southern Netherlands, mid fifteenth century]
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- Vellum
103 leaves (including blank endleaf), 98mm. by 75mm., leaves wanting after fols.27, 44, 55 and 59 (probably with miniatures; perhaps a few others also cut away and now not detectable), else apparently complete, single column, 16 lines in dark brown ink in a single textualis hand, rubrics in red, one-line initials in gold or blue with red penwork, 2-line initials in gold on coloured grounds, eleven large initials (5-line) in same or in colour on gold grounds, with extensions into full borders enclosing foliate sprays and flowers (some with thumbing to borders, particularly those on fols.17r, 69r, 74r and 88r), imprints from bosses from earlier binding in last leaf, small stains, else good, marbled endleaves, nineteenth-century English binding of gilt-tooled brown leather over pasteboards
Provenance
provenance
1. Written and illuminated for a patron in Flanders in the fifteenth century: Calendar with SS.Amandus and Vedast, 6 February, Remigius and Bavo, 1 October, and Donatian, 14 October, in red.
2. Bergendal MS.71; bought by Joseph Pope in our rooms, 11 December 1984, lot 62: Bergendal catalogue no.71; Stoneman, 'Guide', p.194.
Catalogue Note
text
The volume comprises a Calendar (fol.1r); the Hours of the Holy Cross (fol.13r); Mass of the Virgin (fol.17r); the Hours of the Virgin (fol.28r); Penitential Psalms (fol.88r) and Litany.