Accession number:
MS M.730
Title:
Psalter-Hours
Created:
Arras, France, after 1246.
Binding:
English 19th-century red morocco gilt by Charles Lewis.
Credit:
Purchased from the Holford estate, 1927
Description:
251 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 197 x 147 mm
Provenance:
Executed for Ghuiluys de Boisleux and her husband Jean de Neuville-Vitasse (married in 1246, arms vert a fess gules impaled with "Bourgogne ancien" and a shield or a fret and canton gules); descended through the Neuvilles to the Courtenays, emperors of Constantinople; Empress Catherine de Courtenay (wife 1300-1308 of Charles de Valois, portraits of her and her family on fol. 17v and 214 by a Lombard artist); Teodoro Paleologo (name on fol. 250v); Benjamin Heywood Bright sale (London, Sotheby's, June 18, 1844, lot 202, facsimile) to Rodd; Robert Stayner Holford; Sir George L. Holford; purchased from the Holford estate in 1927.
Notes:
Ms. psalter and book of hours; written and illuminated in Arras, France, in the second half of the 13th century.
Decoration: 31 full-page miniatures, all but two with compartments; 11 large historiated initials; 24 calendar illustrations; 3 calendrical charts; marginal animals and grotesques (1 miniature and 1 historiated initial on fol. 17v and 214 repainted in the 14th century by a Lombard artist).
Variant Title:
Psalter and book of hours of Catherine de Courtenay
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and French
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