SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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[RELIGIOUS/CHRISTIAN]
[Book of Hours]

A lovely late medieval Book of Hours, published in France, and full of lively coloured miniature illustrations.

Published
Paris ca. 1490 and third decade of the 16th century.
References
Christies Lot 30 / Sale 12137. 25/5/16.
Plates
66
Binding/Size
S=8vo
Value
25001-100000
Published
Paris ca. 1490 and third decade of the 16th century.
Ref
800

Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum. 8vo. (176 x 116 mm) 18th-century red gilt morocco (scuffed at edges and with wear to spine). Repeated gilt motif to spine, with raised bands, lettered in the second and third compartments, triple line gilt in rule to boards, gilt edges. Marbled endpapers and gilt inner dentelles. Lacking compline from the hours of the Virgin, else complete. Twenty lines ruled space. Twenty-nine large miniatures, twenty-eight of these in architectural frames, one with a full panel border, illuminated initials throughout (small loss to the white pigment of the Crucifixion miniature, elsewhere very occasional instances of rubbing to the miniatures, light marginal wear). Bookplate of 'Maurice Burrus' to verso of front pastedown. Content: Calendar, Gospel extracts, Passion readings, mixed hours of the Virgin, the Cross, and the Holy Spirit, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead, Suffrages. **These accomplished and iconographically-rich Parisian workshop Hours from the early 16th century are notably elevated here by an exquisite inserted miniature in the hand of the Master of Jacques de Besancon (fl.1480-1500).** Coloured plates in order: Large illuminations. 1. John of Patmos. 2. St. Luke. 3. St. Matthew. 4. St. Mark. 5. Agony in the garden. 6. The arrest of Christ. 7. Annunciation. 8. Visitation. 9. Betrayal of Christ. 10. Harrowing of Hell. 11. The Nativity. 12. Christ before Pilate. 13. Resurrection. 14. Annunciation to the Shepherds. 15. Flagellation of Christ. 16. Christ appears to Mary. 17. Adoration of the magi. 18. Christ carrying the cross. 19. Christ appears to Mary Magdalene. 20. Presentation in the temple. 21. The Crucifixion. 22. The Supper at Emmaus. 23. The flight into Egypt. 24. Christ taken down from the cross. 25. Doubting Thomas. 26. The entombment. 27. Pentecost. 28. Bathsheba at her bath. 29. Job on the dung heap. Small illuminations. 30 - 66. The Suffrages of the Saints.