(Q20901)
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Workshop of the Master of Jacques de Besançon
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Shop assistant to Jean Pichore
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Labitte, Alphonse, 1853-
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Gélis-Didot, P. (Pierre), 1853-
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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Missing leaves
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1500-1515
16. century
1500Gregorian
1515Gregorian
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Extent: iv+59+iv; 205 x 130 mm bound to 215 x 140 mm; parchment
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An illuminator from the workshop of the Master of Jacques de Besançon painted the miniatures of the Visitation, Pentecost, and Allegory of Death (fols. 12v, 30r, 40r); a shop assistant to Jean Pichore executed the miniatures of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, the Presentation in the Temple, and the Coronation of the Virgin (fols. 19r, 22r, 26v)
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The leaf with the first two virtues, Faith and Hope, is missing; this leaf, which began the Hours of the Virgin, would also have contained a large minature of the Annunciation, which is lacking in the manuscript; several other leaves missing
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Outer three flyleaves at beginning and end are modern paper; fourth front flyleaf is blank ruled parchment; first end flyleaf is a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century letter bound in
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Binding: Early twentieth-century French red velvet with brass outer corners and earlier silver clasps, early twentieth century
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Layout: One column of thirty-one lines; ruled in red ink; written area: 138 x 70 mm
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Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
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Decoration: Twelve calendar miniatures, fols. 1v-4r; three full-page miniatures: Death of Uriah (fol. 31v), David and Bathsheba (fol. 32r), Allegory of Death (fol. 40r); nine half-page miniatures: Adam and Eve (fol. 9v), Visitation (fol. 12v), Adoration of the Magi (fol 18r), Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 19r), Presentation in the Temple (fol. 22r), Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 26v...
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Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2040, no. 89.
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Related resource: Walter Cahn and James Marrow, "Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Yale: A Selection," Yale University Library Gazette, vol. 52 (April 1978), p. 263.
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Related resource: Barbara A. Shailor, Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, vol. 2, MSS 251-500, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 48 (Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1987), p. 312.
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Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia. Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), pp. 20-21.
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Related resource: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 112-114, no. 36.
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Related resource: Hourihane, Colum, ed., Time in the Medieval World: Occupations of the Months & Signs of the Zodiac in the Index of Christian Art. (Princeton: Index of Christian Art and The Dept. of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, 2007), pp. 72, 81, 191, 205.
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Provenance: Letter in French tipped in at back (fol. 59) signed by Philippus, thought to be Philip I of Castile (d. 1506); Ambrose Firmin-Didot (booksellers), Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot?, Paris, 1883, lot 15, illus.; Alphonse Labitte, Paris; book-plate of Pierre Gélis-Didot (with penciled note that it was lot 19 in his sale, April 12, 1897?); Dance of Death Collection of Susan B. Minns, Boston...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Amey Hutchins
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Cataloger: Judith Weston
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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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4 December 2023
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4 December 2023
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