Book of hours

Saints revered in Burgundy are included in the sparse calendar, with St. Vincent of Besançon in gold (23 September), Lupus of Chalons-sur-Soâne in blue (27 January), and Claude of Besançon (6 June), and the litany names Philibert (of Tournus Abbey), Gerald (prior of Cluny), Hugh (abbot of Cluny), Maieul and Consortian (Cluny), Benignus (Dijon) and Radegundis (presumably of Bassigny); the pentrial ("rege livre et onnez") of an early owner appears in the margin on fol. 41 and family records have been erased from the margins of the opening calendar leaves; Gabriel de Chabannes (1552-1599), vicomte de Savigny, seigneur de Chaumont, was a "gentilhomme de la chambre du roi," first "echanson de la reine," and "chevalier de l'Ordre du Roi" (his name inscribed on final blank in a 16th-century hand, with monograms and a verse in French opening "Lamour la mort la mer"; further inscriptions in Latin appear to be in a 17th-century hand and include the date 11 October 1[?]61; George Templeton Strong (1820-1875), (inscribed in ink under the cutting from his catalogue on fol. i: "Geo. T. Strong Dec 3rd 1846"); his sale, New York, Bangs & Co., 4 November 1878, lot 820 (lot number is written on the verso of the first flyleaf; description of the lot clipped from the Strong auction catalogue is pasted to fol. i); William Waldorf Astor (1848-1919), 1st Viscount Astor (his MS A.14 [sticker on recto of the first flyleaf]; it may be Astor's handwriting on the clipping from the Strong catalogue pasted on to fol. i that reads "Bought at the Strong Sale/N.Y., November 1878 $250" [a sale price confirmed by the Morgan Library's annotated copy of the Strong catalogue]); inherited by his son Waldorf Aster, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879-1952); inherited by his son William Waldorf Astor II, 3rd Viscount Astor (1907-1966); deposited at the Bodleian Library shortly before the death of the 3rd Viscount in 1966; sold by order of the Trustees of the Astor Family in London, Sotheby's, 21 June 1988, lot 64; Ladislaus von Hoffmann (1927-2014); his sale (Part III of his "Arcana Collection"), London, Christie's, 6 July 2011, lot 22; Heribert Tenschert (his catalogue 71, Tour de France, 2013, I, 278-98, no. 13, illus.); Marguerite Steed Hoffman.