BOOK OF HOURS, illuminated manuscript

by illuminated manuscript Book Of Hours

£75,000 · Offered by Sokol Books

Provenance: 1. Written and illuminated in Bordeaux around the opening of the sixteenth century, with the use of the Office of the Virgin that of the exceptionally rare Saint-Andr é de Bordeaux, with the Office of the Dead in general agreement with use of Bordeaux. The Calendar includes a number of southern French saints, such as Quiteria (22 May), and Genesius (25 August, in red), Bertrand of Comminges (16 October) and Fronto (25 October), as well as specifically Bordeaux saints (such as Beraldus and Amand). 2. Richard de Lom énie (collection dispersed before 1938): his late nineteenth to early twentieth-century armorial bookplate engraved by Bouvier, with motto: Je maintiendray ; a family member of Étienne-Charles de Lom énie (1727-94), finance minister of King Louis XVI, bishop of Condom, archbishop of Toulouse and finally archbishop of Sens. Another Book of Hours once owned by him now in The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 77 L 59, Pierpont Morgan Museum, M.1073, and others sold in Christie s, 7 July 2010, lot 36; and 15 July 2015, lot 28, as well as widely in the French trade in the last decade. Text: This volume comprises: a Calendar (fol. 1r); the Gospel extracts (fol. 7r); the Hours of the Virgin (fol. 13r); the Seven Penitential Psalms (fol. 63r) followed by a Litany; the Office of the Dead (fol. 80v); the Obsecro te (fol. 109r) followed by prayers. Illumination: The source of the richly illuminated scenes here is most probably a printed copy of the text with miniatur

• Binding: Hardcover

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