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THE HOURS OF CARDINAL DUBOIS, USE OF ROUEN, IN LATIN AND FRENCH [FRANCE (ROUEN), C.1480-1500]
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Description
- body colour on vellum
c.170x125mm, vellum, 94 leaves, lacking three miniatures and an uncertain number of text leaves, 20 lines, c.95x65mm, 24 CALENDAR MINIATURES within borders, 11 LARGE MINIATURES with full borders and EVERY OTHER PAGE WITH A PANEL BORDER, illumination generally in very good condition, undecorated 20th-century brown binding
Catalogue Note
PROVENANCE (1) Produced in Rouen, and perhaps acquired there in the early 20th century by: (2) Cardinal Louis-Ernest Dubois (1856-1929), successively bishop of Verdun, Bourges, Rouen, and archbishop of Paris: with his arms and motto stuck to the front pastedown and a small miniature with the Lamb of God stuck to the back pastedown. (3) Since the 1960s in a private collection, Switzerland.
TEXT AND ILLUMINATION
Calendar in French (f.1r); part of Matins of the Hours of the Virgin, bound out of place (f.13r); Gospel extracts (f.19r); Obsecro te and O intemerata (f.23r); Lauds of the Hours of the Virgin, beginning imperfectly (f.28), followed by suffrages; Penitential Psalms (f.52r) and litany (f.60v); Hours of the Cross, starting imperfectly (f.64r), and of the Holy Spirit (f.65v); Office of the Dead (f.68r); the Quinze Joies (f.89r).
The subjects of the large miniatures are: (1) Four Evangelists (f.19r); (2) Nativity (f.36r); (3) Shepherds (f.39v); (4) Magi (f.42r); (5) Presentation (f.44v); (6) Flight (f.47r); (7) Coronation (f.49r); (8) David, with marginal scenes (f.52r); (9) Pentecost (f.65v); (10) Funeral Service, with marginal scenes (f.68r); (11) Pietà with kneeling patroness (f.89r).
TEXT AND ILLUMINATION
Calendar in French (f.1r); part of Matins of the Hours of the Virgin, bound out of place (f.13r); Gospel extracts (f.19r); Obsecro te and O intemerata (f.23r); Lauds of the Hours of the Virgin, beginning imperfectly (f.28), followed by suffrages; Penitential Psalms (f.52r) and litany (f.60v); Hours of the Cross, starting imperfectly (f.64r), and of the Holy Spirit (f.65v); Office of the Dead (f.68r); the Quinze Joies (f.89r).
The subjects of the large miniatures are: (1) Four Evangelists (f.19r); (2) Nativity (f.36r); (3) Shepherds (f.39v); (4) Magi (f.42r); (5) Presentation (f.44v); (6) Flight (f.47r); (7) Coronation (f.49r); (8) David, with marginal scenes (f.52r); (9) Pentecost (f.65v); (10) Funeral Service, with marginal scenes (f.68r); (11) Pietà with kneeling patroness (f.89r).