Book of Hours (Use of Paris)

Hours of the Cross at Sext and None.

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Saskatoon, SK, University of Saskatchewan, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 25), no. 30

Original Condition

Page Height 180 – 185 mm
Page Width 125 – 130 mm
Height of Written Area 90 mm
Width of Written Area 60 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 14

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Rinceaux and small leaves fill the upper, lower, and lefthand margins. Some of the flowers and all of the leaves are illuminated. Recto has an illuminated initial "D" at the start of line 5 that has rinceaux sprouting off of it. Verso has several illuminated initials. Four smaller initials start the first four lines followed by two larger slightly illustrated illuminated initials starting lines 5 and 12.

History

Provenance

Offered by Bernard Quaritch cat. 240 (1905), no. 230 and cat. 290 (1910), no. 253;
Sold by Quaritch to C. L. Ricketts in 1922;
C. L. Ricketts, in S. de Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada I:634, no. 116;
Sold by Parke-Bernet Galleries, 23 February 1939, lot 217;
Dismembered by Otto Ege or an associate;
Leaves used as No. 30 in Ege’s “Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts” portfolio;
Aquired by University of Saskatchewan at an unknown date.

Bibliography

  • Bernard Quaritch cat. 240 (1905), no. 230 and cat. 290 (1910), no. 253;

  • Parke-Bernet Galleries, 23 February 1939, lot 216;

  • S. de Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada I:634, no. 116