Accession number:
MS M.919
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Paris, France, ca. 1418.
Binding:
19th-century(?) red velvet with red silk doublures and 2 brass clasps.
Credit:
Gift of Fellows, 1965.
Description:
248 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 203 x 140 mm.
Provenance:
John Boykett Jarmon, his sale (London, Sotheby's, 13 June 1864); John Ruskin (bookplate); Arthur Severn; sold London 1903 and purchased by Alfred T. White; Bernard Quaritch, London; sold in 1903 to Adrian van Sinderen; purchased from Mrs. Adrian van Sinderen as a Gift from the Fellows in 1965.
Notes:
Ms. book of hours, use of Paris (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, calendar), written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1418.
Decoration: 2 large miniatures, 33 historiated initials, 24 calendar illustrations (occupations of the months and signs of the zodiac), numerous initials with human busts, full borders with over 1000 marginal zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures and hybrids. Most of the miniatures that would normally be found in a richly illustrated Book of Hours are missing; one may wonder whether Ruskin had a part in the excision.
Artist: attributed to the Egerton Master by Millard Meiss.
Textiles: red velvet binding, red silk doublures.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and French
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