Lot #: 43660
Horae. [Book of Hours, Use of Angers] |
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Selling price: $21750
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Description
>Each leaf with elaborate decorated floral side borders and finely illuminated, burnished gold initials with pen work in red and black on almost every leaf throughout.
Each page with a three-line initial and several one-line initials with gold leaves, sparkling with gold and color, same for line fillers.
Text is written in a fine regular gothic book hand in black ink with the rubrics in red.
Minor occasional soiling and spotting, a few initials with minimal paint loss, otherwise very fine, with large margins.
Calendar in French, with an entry for every, June and July are missing: Calendar with use of Angers. Calendar in French, with an entry for every day, decorated in an unusual style : Each leaf has a richly decorated KL at the top, Latin abbreviation for Calendar, followed by the days mentioning the Saints in either gold, red of blue.
>Illustrated with 11 miniature, either as illuminated in a five-line initial or full page.
The subjects of the miniatures are:
- Visitation
- Nativity
- Announcement to the shepherds
- Adoration of the Magi
- Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
- Flight to Egypt
- Coronation of the Virgin
and five full page miniatures of the lamentation of the Virgin
- King David
- Entombment of Christ
- St. Sebastian
- St. Margaret
Provenance Leaf 131 verso with "de la bibliotheque de Jean Claude Cadiat ne a Paris le treize fevrier 1741".
Each page with a three-line initial and several one-line initials with gold leaves, sparkling with gold and color, same for line fillers.
Text is written in a fine regular gothic book hand in black ink with the rubrics in red.
Minor occasional soiling and spotting, a few initials with minimal paint loss, otherwise very fine, with large margins.
Calendar in French, with an entry for every, June and July are missing: Calendar with use of Angers. Calendar in French, with an entry for every day, decorated in an unusual style : Each leaf has a richly decorated KL at the top, Latin abbreviation for Calendar, followed by the days mentioning the Saints in either gold, red of blue.
>Illustrated with 11 miniature, either as illuminated in a five-line initial or full page.
The subjects of the miniatures are:
- Visitation
- Nativity
- Announcement to the shepherds
- Adoration of the Magi
- Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
- Flight to Egypt
- Coronation of the Virgin
and five full page miniatures of the lamentation of the Virgin
- King David
- Entombment of Christ
- St. Sebastian
- St. Margaret
Provenance Leaf 131 verso with "de la bibliotheque de Jean Claude Cadiat ne a Paris le treize fevrier 1741".
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