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100 Book of Hours, - Use of Rome, with numerous other devotional texts Use of Rome, with numerous other devotional texts, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Southern Netherlands (Bruges), c .1460] 313 leaves (including 9 leaves added at end in sixteenth century, and plus two paper endleaves at front and back), too tightly bound too collate, but wanting approximately 7 text leaves (see below), single column, 18 lines in two sizes of a fine and regular Burgundian lettre bâtarde with ornamental penwork cadels, red rubrics, Calendar leaves (24 in total) in gold, blue and red, with every leaf in this part of text opening with a 3-line initial KL in blue or pink with foliate infill on bright gold grounds and a single decorated border panel of single-line foliage ending in coloured flowerheads and gold bezants, every line of Calendar beginning with a gold initial on burgundy and blue grounds, main text with same initials (often several per page) from one to 4-lines in height, the larger accompanied by single border panels (approximately 250 of these), eleven leaves with similar borders which extend down outer edge and halfway across top and bottom margins, thirteen leaves with 5-line illuminated initials with full-borders of acanthus leaves and other foliage (including realistic studies of sprigs of hazelnuts) enclosing drolleries, animals, birds and a bear and a monkey playing chess , thirty-eight historiated initials enclosing portraits of saints by a follower of William Vrelant , initial on fol.47v smudged, slight wear and thumbing to edges in places, occasional offsetting, sections of borders of fols.122 and 305 cut away, remnants of sale ticket once pasted to front endleaf, marks showing original leaves at each end once pastedowns in earlier binding, else in bright and sparkling condition on excellent parchment with wide and clean margins, 175mm. by 121mm., seventeenth-century French mottled calf with floral gilt spine in six compartments, spine restored, marbled endleaves, in fleece-lined brown morocco box with gilt title by the Lakeside Press, Chicago Provenance: (1) Almost certainly written and illuminated in Bruges for a married couple who were close to the family of the Burgundian dukes: with prayers in both masculine and feminine forms, and in some cases asking for blessings for famulos tuos and servos tuos ( your servants , fols.254r-255v). The Bruges saint, Basil (who had a chapel dedicated to him on the central square in the city, which abutted up against the ancestral comital residence) is highlighted in gold on 3 April in the Calendar, and there are other local saints, such as Omer, Bertin, and Bavo in the Litany. The presence of SS. Iodocus or Josse (after whom Philip the Good named his second son, the boy sadly dying only days after birth in 1432) and Louis (patron of the French royal family and their descendants) points towards the Burgundian court, and this impression is confirmed by the inclusion of Anselm s meditation on chastity on fols.268r-76r and a series of the saints commemorated in the last part of the book. Anselm s text also appears in the prayer book of Philip the Bold, the first Valois duke of Burgundy (Brussels, Bibl. Royale MS.10392), and among the saints here are Adrian, Gregory, Claud, Bernadino (canonised in 1450), Anne and Barbara, who were added to Philip the Bold s book when it was later enlarged for the personal use of his grandson, Philip the Good (see S. Panayotova and N. Morgan, A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and Cambridge Colleges , I, 2009, for Fitzwilliam, MS 3-1954). There are no arms or heraldic devices in the book, and it would appear that the original owners were trusted (but perhaps not noble) servants of the Burgundian court. It may even have been a commission by a member of the ducal household for these recipients. (2) Within a few decades, the volume would appear to have been in the hands of an owner from the house of Luxembourg (whose title passed to the Burgundian dukes in 1467), and it was then that the last gathering was added with a suffrage to St. Peter of Luxembourg (fol.306r), and a prayer in French for one to whom God has entrusted rule of a kingdom but who has children (fol.308r). This owner presumably added the prayer to St Edmund of England in a fifteenth-century hand before the calendar, most probably in response to either the marriage in 1464 of Edward IV of England to Elizabeth Woodville, daughter from the second marriage of Jacquetta of Luxembourg, or the marriage of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York in 1468. Edward IV was briefly exiled in 1470 and took refuge in Flanders with the celebrated bibliophile Louis de Gruuthuse ( c .1422-92) whose house in Bruges stills stands and is the site of a museum. It is more than likely that the owners of this book met the English king during his sojourn there. (3) H.R.H. Frederick Augustus, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), the rebellious sixth son of George III who secretly married Lady Augusta Murray in Rome in 1793, clandestinely renewing these vows in St. George's, Hanover Square (a few metres from our rooms) later that year, and continuing to live together despite the king s disapproval and parliamentary annulment of the union: his printed bookplate inside front cover. The book was catalogued by T.J. Pettigrew ( Bibliotheca Sussexiana , I:1, 1827, no.136, pp.cxci-cxcii, beautifully written … on thin vellum … there are various beautiful little miniatures of saints dispersed throughout the volume ), when in the library of Kensington Palace. (4) Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, Yorkshire antiquarian and book collector; his sale, Sotheby's, 23 April 1891, lot 1394. A late thirteenth-century Bible from the Bibliotheca Sussexiana also passed to him, re-appearing in Sotheby s, 2 December 1986, lot 38. (5) Alfred Higgins F.S.A. (d.1902), antiquarian and collector; his sale, Sotheby's, 2 May 1904, lot 91, thence Quaritch, cat.237 (1905), no.337, and then Hiersemann, cat.330 (1906), no.31. (6) Isabelle Corwith Cramer (1861-1954), the second wife of Ambrose Cramer of Chicago: her inscription on label on book box and loose paper note recording gift of book in 1920 to her daughter, Isabelle Ryerson. (7) Christies, 2 June 2010, lot 207, for £32,450. Text: The Burgundian court in the fifteenth century was the scene of opulence, art patronage and conspicuous consumption of wealth on a scale never seen before or perhaps after. Breathtakingly large sums were regularly spent on single illuminated volumes, and Phillip the Good added 600 such books to the ducal library during his reign, as well as commissioning tapestries, jewellery and other artworks. He funded lavish tournaments, banquets and other forms of entertainment, founded the Burgundian school of music and sent no less than Jan van Eyk to Portugal in 1428 to paint an accurate portrait of Princess Isabella in advance of his betrothal to her. Any artwork produced in this environment is a testament to this abundance of wealth and power, and this book would appear to have belonged to a couple at the very centre of this world. It is a highly individual volume, with many more texts than are usually found in a Book of Hours. It comprises a Calendar (fol.2v); the Hours of the Passion (fol.15r, with matins wanting end and compline wanting opening); the Hours of the Cross (fol.32r); the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fol.39r, wanting terce, and prime wanting end); the Mass of the Virgin (fol.43r); Gospel Readings (fol.47v); the Hours of Virgin secundum usum romanum (fol.52r), with matins (fol.52r), lauds (fol.70r), prime fol.81r), terce (fol.85r), sext (fol.89r), none (fol.93r), vespers (fol.97r), and compline (fol.104r); the Hours of the Compassion of the Virgin (fol.108r), followed by prayers of compassion to the Virgin at the seven hours (A. Wilmart, Auteurs spirituels .........
Miniature Passional, - in Russian Church Slavonic, decorated manuscript on paper [Russia in Russian Church Slavonic, decorated manuscript on paper [Russia, sixteenth or perhaps seventeenth century] 116 leaves, wanting gathering at end, else apparently complete, single column of 11 lines in tiny but precise Slavonic script, running titles and rubrics in red, stained at edges and damage to first few leaves at front of volume, a few later marginalia, overall fair and readable condition, 46mm. by 40mm., contemporary binding with leather spine and wooden boards (these later overlaid with buckram), outer leather split halfway along length of spine This is a charming Russian Church Slavonic book on a truly miniature scale. The text is that of a list of saints according to the Calendar for ordinary and leap years, including readings for SS. Theodotus, bishop of Cyrenaea (March), Romanus the Melode (October) and Savva of Vishera, a Russian saint who died in 1460.
King David, demi-grisaille miniature from an illuminated Book of Hours King David, demi-grisaille miniature from an illuminated Book of Hours, on parchment [Low Countries (probably Bruges), c .1460] Single leaf, with a full-page arch-topped miniature, enclosing David kneeling in ermine edged robes in a rocky landscape with his blue crown with gold fleur-de-lys and harp before him, all before a wide river with tiny boats and a mountainous background with a medieval town, as God appears to him in the upper right corner, all in demi-grisaille, with full border of acanthus leaves, other foliage, thistles and a bird (all in grey tones heightened with gold), inner edge with small tri-lobed blue flowers, modern pencil fol. no. 36 on reverse, gold frame of miniature with few small flakes, else excellent condition, 90mm. by 70mm., framed This is a charming example of grisaille illumination on a tiny scale. Silver was notoriously difficult to master in the book-arts, and the single great period of flourishing of books in this and associated grey-tones was under the wealthy patronage of artistic communities in the Low Countries (most notably Bruges) by the Burgundian dukes. See Sotheby s, 10 July 2012, lot 14, for a similar miniature, from a contemporary Book of Hours, there ascribed to the Mildmay Master.
A Pair of Regency Library Armchairs England circa 1820, of large scale with caned seat, back and sides, the channelled hand rests above ring turned supports and ring turned front legs all with brass castors, the buttoned deep seat and arm supports upholstered in tobacco coloured suede, 70cm wide, 103cm high, 75cm deep During the refurbishment of Stourhead, Wiltshire at the beginning of the 19th century, chairs such as these where the framework is filled by caning, were referred to by Thomas Chippendale the younger (1749 - 1822) as hunting chairs. Also referred as such by Thomas Sheraton in his Cabinet Dictionary of 1803, in which it is noted that they "formed a temporary resting place for one that is fatigued as hunters generally are." Other examples are sometimes furnished with a reading slide or foot rest, see: Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, Ralph Edwards. Country Life, 1964, p.169, pl.3. Provenance: Rushbrooke Hall, Bury St. Edmunds.
A Decalcomania Vase Mounted as a Lamp England / France circa 1880, of exceptional scale and with elaborate decoration on a pale blue ground, depicting C hinese figures in shaped panels to both sides, bordered by further figures, mythical creatures, flowering branches and scattered with birds, insects, and butterflies, mounted as a lamp with bowed silk shade, 84cm high
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