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Provenance
: Jacqueline du Luxembourg (- Saint-Pol) (1435-1511), in 1455 married to Philippe I
de Croÿ (1435-1511), comte de Porcéan, and companion of Charles The Bold.
Full-page arms of
Croÿ-Renty
on f. [13]v, smaller arms on ff. [42]v, [53]v, [87]v, [88]r; sm.
arms of Luxembourg-
Saint-Pol
on f. [88]r and [110]v (both with fleur-de-lys), and, with Croÿ, in a lozenge on f. [57]v,
[87]v. Small arms on ff. [14]r, [30]v, [38]v, [45]r, [47]v, [50]r deleted.
Interesting, hardly known small Book of Hours from the household of Jacqueline du Luxembourg
and Philippe I de Croÿ, probably for daily use at home or when travelling, and altogether of lower
quality than the much larger and much more luxurious de Croÿ-Luxembourg Hours illuminated by
the celebrated Parisian painter François.
1108
[Book of Hours]
-
GROOTE, Geert
- Middle Dutch Hours [and: Prayers]. [Utrecht, 15th c.].
Manuscript on vellum, c. 14,2 x 10,5 cm, mod. pigskin, gilt titled flat spine, metal corner pcs, clasps
and catches (1 clasp loose), a.e.g., cloth marker, in slipcase with gilt titled label on spine (1st and
last ff. dampstained), 204 ff., 17 ll. (within ruled borders), in brown/black ink. In good condition.
€ 5000/6000
Contents
: Utrecht Calendar (ff. 1v-13r, 13v blank), “Ghetide(n) vander ewigher wijsheit” (ff.
15r-39v), Long Hours of the Holy Cross (40r-65v, inc. at end), Hours of the Holy Virgin (66r-106v,
inc. at beginning and end), Hours of the Holy Ghost, with additional text from the Breviary Office
of Pentecost (ff. 107r-135v), 7 Peninential Psalms (ff. 136r-144v, inc. at beginning), Litany of All
Saints (ff. 144v-156v), Vigils of the Dead (ff. 157r-197v, inc. at beginning); Prayers: “Regina coeli”
(ff. 135r-v), Johannes of Fécamp “Summe sacerdos” (ff. 198r-201v), “Dencke dit in dijnre hertten
alstu onse here in dinen mont ontfanghen hebste” (ff. 201v-204r, 204v blank).
Decoration
:
a. miniature
(pasted on f. 14v): Coronation of the Virgin, with gilt ruled border (oval
at top), in red, brown, blue and green;
b.
two 9-line blue initials
with pink/green decoration (ff.
15r, 40r), gilt border, extensive marginal penwork;
c.
29 4/5-line gilt initials
in blue/pink with gilt
marginal penwork;
d. numerous 1/2-line initials
in red or blue;
e. calendar
in red and blue.
1109
[Book of Hours]
-
Horae
. [Flanders?, 2nd half 15th c.]. Latin manuscript on vellum, c. 16,8 x 11,3
cm, old limp vellum (a recasing with mod. paper flyleaves), flat spine, [116] ff.: calendar 12 ff. +
13 quaterniones (some decorative borders cut short, traces of use: soiling in bottom margin, some
minor thumbing), 23 ll., written in black/brown ink in a very readable gothic hand; kept in a cloth
box. In very good condition.
Cfr. ill.
€ 8000/10000
Nice Book of Hours, with numerous decorated and illuminated initials.
Contents
: Calendar (with i.a. in red: Amandus, Bonifacius, Eligius, Bavo & Remigius), Hours of
the Holy Cross and of the Holy Spirit, Mass of the Holy Virgin, Prayers to the Holy Virgin and to
various Saints, Hours of the Virgin, 7 Pentitential Psalms, Office of the Dead.
Decoration
:
rubricated
throughout; numerous 1- or 2-line initials in red, blue or gold; 1 5-line
initial in blue, red and gold;
six 7-line initials in blue with red penwork and gold background
(text with 3 ruled borders,
marginal decoration with coloured leaves
);
27 small miniatures with
Saints and Nativity Cycle,
c. 4 x 3,5 cm: St John the Evangelist (on Patmos), Pietà, Gregory’s Mass,
Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter & Paul, Nicholas, Anthony, Christopher,
Sebastian, Adrian, Erasmus, Mary Magdalen, Margaret, Catherine, Barbara, Apollonia, Genoveva,
Visitation, Nativity, Shepherds, Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Massacre of the Innocents, Flight
to Egypt, Child Jesus as Salvator Mundi.
Provenance
: on 3 old vellum flylvs, bound with at front, some records of a Liège noble family, 16th-
17th c., i.a. “Marie de argenteau”, “Nostre filz ernest est ne a Sclessin le 21de maye l’anné 1607”.
Ownership entry of Huy Jesuits on f. 1r. Armorial bookpl. of Charles James Blomfield (1786-1857),
Church of England bishop of London (1828-1856).