(Q2714)
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Thouvin, sieur du Bouillon, lawyer, of Lassay, Maine (central France), 1717 (inscription on flyleaf signed ‘Thibault’), and by descent to Madame Villatte à Lassay; the Rev. Walter Sneyd (1809-1888), who also owned no. 78 above; his sale, Sotheby’s, 16 December 1903, lot 383; Charles William Dyson Perrins (1864–1958), who also owned no. 61 above, with his bookplate.
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but rejected from the collection before it was catalogued; Rudolf Busch, of Mainz; his sale, Baer, Frankfurt, 4 April 1921, lot 273; sold again among "other properties" at Sotheby’s, 7 February 1923, lot 568, to Quaritch; C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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s. XVI(in); 1500-1515
16. century
1500Gregorian
1515Gregorian
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Binding: Sixteenth-century binding of wooden boards covered with calf and morocco gilt, each cover with a sunken central panel 143 mm. by 54 mm. of paler brown morocco, raised outer frame with oval inserts in each corner in pale brown morocco with embossed plaquettes in medallions showing a Roman empress in profile facing to the left, all profusely gilt with volutes and strapwork designs...
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Figurative details, ff. 75: Elaborate cadels in the upper margins including faces touched in coloured wash; Twelve double Calendar miniatures at the foot of fols. 1r–6v showing the Occupations of the Months and the signs of the Zodiac; twenty small miniatures, showing scenes from each of the nine readings from the book of Job in the Office of the Dead (fols. 53v, 54v, 55r, 59r, 59v, 60v, 65r...
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Other decoration, ff. 75: large and small initials throughout in liquid gold on blue and brown grounds.
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Script, ff. 75: Batarde.
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Layout, ff. 75: Collation: blank flyleaf + i#^6#, lacking 2 whole gatherings after fol. 6 [once of 8 leaves each plus 6 inserted miniatures], iv#^7+1# [of 8+1, lacking i before fol. 7, and fol. 7 (now detached) added with miniature], v#^8+1# [fol. 20 added with miniature], vi#^7+1# [of 8+2, lacking v before fol. 28, fol. 30 added with miniature, and lacking a further added leaf after fol. 27...
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Bibliography: Hobson 1930, p. 154, pl. LXXXVa (1988 reprint, p. 196, no. X, and pl. on p. 209); De Ricci 1935, pp. 637–38; Schunke 1937, p. 59; Hobson 1989, p. 249, no. 136 ("ownership unknown").
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ff. 75: Latin.
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ff. 1-75: Use of Rome. In its present form, the book comprises: , a Calendar (fol. 1r), disappointingly sparse, with no local saints; the Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome (fol. 7r); the Penitential Psalms (fol. 39r) and Litany, again non-specific, including Saint Julian; the Office of the Dead (fol. 49r); and Suffrages (fol. 71r).
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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