A complete Calendar from a Book of Hours, in French [east-central France, Burgundy, c.1480-90]

12-leaf quire, 116x76mm, vellum, written in brown and pink inks, with illuminated KL monograms, most pages with a cadel on the top line, several including a human face in profile, slightly cropped at the upper edge

From the collection of a 19th- or 20th-century owner with the initials 'G.J.S' (inscribed, f.1r); from the same manuscript as the previous lot. Although it does not have an entry for every day, there are a number of unusual entries that have eluded identification, such as Venant on 8 April, 13 September, and 12 October. The parent manuscript, sold by Artcurial, Paris, 15 December 2005, lot 93, had an added prayer to Sts Odilon and Mayeul, abbots of Cluny, which suggests a connection with Cluny in southern Burgundy, north of Lyon, and two 17th-century ownership inscriptions of Mayolus Fervoire, canon priest of Dorne, south of Lyon.