(Q47438)
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23 July 2024
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Book of hours
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Marmion, Simon, 1420-1489
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Master of the Dresden Hours, active 1470-1500
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Master of the Houghton Miniatures
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Ghent Associates of the Master of Mary of Burgundy
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White, Alfred Tredway, 1846-1921
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Van Sinderen, Adrian, 1887-1963
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Quaritch, Bernard, 1819-1899
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Stirling Maxwell, William, 1818-1878
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White, William Augustus, 1843-1927
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Emerson, Frances White, 1860-1957
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Belgium--1450-1500
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between 1485 and 1490
15. century
1485Gregorian
1490Gregorian
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Extent: 2 v. (leaves 1-118, leaves 119-248) : vellum ; 15 cm.
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The text is written in a gothic rotunda book-hand in one column.
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Each page has an outer border panel in tempera and gold in trompe-l'oeil style. Many pages have full borders in this style. There are also 7 miniatures, 14 historiated borders, 28 historiated initials, and 24 calendar illustrations in tempera and gold. (At least 23 further miniatures originally in the ms. are now missing.) The illuminators include the Master of the Houghton Miniatures (named...
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Evidence formerly cited (see Quaritch) to show that the book was written for Queen Juana la Loca of Castile is now interpreted differently.
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The texts for the various votive masses are on ff. 51-69 and 128-132.
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Both volumes are bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1886 in black morocco with an all-over pattern of flowers and the monogram y y.
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Vol. 1 has a cloth back and is in a black morocco tray case, vol. 2 in a blue morocco pull-off case, both 16 cm.
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The main text of the ms. is in Latin, but at the end (ff. 245v-248r) is "la oracion de Sant Gregorio Papa" in Spanish.
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Bernard Quaritch (the whole ms. in 1 volume); Sir William Stirling Maxwell (Quaritch catalogue Sept. 1886 no. 35696), who rebound it in 2 vols.; Quaritch (both vols.)
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Vol. 1 (MS Typ 443): William A. White, 1892; his daughter Mrs. Frances White Emerson.
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Vol. 1 given in memory of William A. White and his daughter Frances White Emerson by members of their family: Harold White, Donald Moffat, and Mrs. John Wing, 1958.
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Vol. 2 (MS Typ 443.1): Alfred T. White, 1892; his son-in-law Adrian Van Sinderen.
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Vol. 2 deposited by Mrs. Adrian Van Sinderen, 1966.
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25 July 2024
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