(Q2762)
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John Boykett Jarman (d. 1864, aged 82); his sale, Sotheby’s, 13 June 1864, lot 78; Cecil Dunn Gardner; his sale, Sotheby’s, 21 June 1880, lot 823, to Ellis; William H. Crawford (1812-1888), of Lakelands, Blackrock, Cork, with his bookplate; his sale, Sotheby’s, 12 March 1891, lot 1666.
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Henry Walton Lawrence; his sale, Sotheby’s, 15 December 1892, lot 235, to Robson; C. L. Ricketts, bought from Robson, cat. 96 (1915), no. 219; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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s. XIX(med); 1840-1860
19. century
1840
1860
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Binding: Bound in dark red velvet over pasteboards, paper endleaves, rebacked; in a salmon-pink cloth case.
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Figurative details, ff. 1-17: Copies of miniatures from two Books of Hours, showing Saint John on Patmos (fol. 1r), Saint Luke painting in his studio (fol. 2r), Saint Matthew writing at a desk (fol. 3r), Saint Mark at his desk (fol. 4r), the Virgin and Child among cherubim (fol. 5r), the Annunciation (fol. 6r), the Visitation (fol. 7r), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 8r), the Nativity...
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Layout, ff. 1-17: Illuminated on rectos only.
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Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 638; Backhouse 1968, pp. 82, 89, and 91, nn. 32-33; Hindman and Rowe 2001, p. 268 and fig. 154.
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ff. 1-17: Thirteen of the miniatures here, all except those of the Evangelists, are copied precisely from a French Book of Hours then in Jarman’s possession, illuminated about 1460 by the Master of Jean Rolin.
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ff. 1-17: Latin.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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