(Q2615)
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Master of Death, Pierre Remiet
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Étienne de Loypeau, bishop of Luçon 1388-1407; Louis d’Harcourt, patriarch of Jerusalem and bishop of Bayeux 1460-79, who on 12 April 1474 gave it to the cathedral of Bayeux; recorded in the inventory of the cathedral treasury in 1476, "Premièrement, ung excellent missel, portant tout l’office pontifical . . . (Delisle 1887, p. 434).
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leaves (including those here) were lost by at least 1887; these leaves bought by C. L. Ricketts in Paris from Lemallier, 1907, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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s. XIV(ex); 1385-1399
14. century
1385Gregorian
1399Gregorian
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Binding: Not bound.
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Figurative details, leaves a-d: 2- to 4-line initials in gothic leafy designs in colours and burnished gold on panelled grounds, with full ivyleaf bar borders, including dragons; five columnwidth miniatures, 10 lines high, showing the Crucifixion (original fol. 100v), the Nativity of the Virgin (original fol. 45r), Saint Helen finding the True Cross (original fol. 45v), Saint Michael...
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Other decoration, leaves a-d: Headings in red, original folio numbers (in roman numerals) and versal capitals in alternating blue with red penwork and burnished gold with dark blue penwork.
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Script, leaves a-d: Gothic Textualis.
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Layout, leaves a-d: 2 columns, ruled apparently in pale brown ink, 32 lines, each column 237 mm. by 74 mm., with 21 mm. between columns; written in brown ink.
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Manuscript note: These are four long-lost leaves from the Pontifical and Missal of Étienne de Loypeau, now Bayeux, Bibliothèque municipale, Fondes du chapitre, ms 61. The volume in Bayeux is an unusual combination of a standard Missal supplemented by prayers and ceremonies for specific use by a bishop, such as ordinations, coronations and benedictions. The manuscript has two sequences of...
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Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 627; Camille 1996, p. 92, fig. 52, p. 209, fig. 155, and p. 249.
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leaves a-d: The hand of the artist of the five Ricketts miniatures appears in many other very grand Parisian manuscripts of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, including aristocratic texts owned by Charles V and his brothers the dukes of Burgundy and Berry. The late Michael Camille named him as the ‘Master of Death’ and confidently identified him with Pierre Remiet, an...
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leaves a-d: Latin.
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leaves a-d: The leaves here are: (a) fol. C in the Temporal, "sue latro premium . . ." (from the Good Friday prayer Deus a quo et Judas) to John 18: 12 in the Passion sequence for Good Friday, with the miniature on the verso; (b) fol. XLV in the Sanctoral, "Gloriose virginis marie . . .", from the Nativity of the Virgin (8 September), followed by brief Masses for Saint Gorgonius (9 September...
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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