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BOOK OF HOURS, use of Poitiers, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Poitiers?, workshop of the Maître d'Adelaide de Savoie, c.1460]
158 x 110mm, 65 leaves + 2 medieval vellum fly-leaves, COMPLETE, lacking only the final blank leaf. Collation: 1-26 3-48 5-106 112-1, vertical catchwords, 24 lines, justification: 96 x 64mm, written in brown ink in a regular bâtarde hand, rubrics in red, versal initials in gold on red or blue ground, outer panel border on every page of coloured flowers and fruit and gold ivy leaves on hairline stems, 13 LARGE MINIATURES in arched compartments, each within a full border of painted leaves, flowers and fruit on a burnished gold ground, containing also grotesque human and animal figures. (3 miniatures rubbed; occasional staining and smudging). 16th-century blind-tooled calf over paper boards (upper cover and foot of spine worn).
PROVENANCE: The Calendar has some of the saints of Poitiers, such as Hilary, first bishop of Poitiers, Neomadia and Radegunde, the patron saint of Poitiers, with her translation. The book may also have been used at Saintes, as the calendar has also Leodegar (12 Nov.) and Eutropius (30 April) with his translation (14 Oct.), both bishops of Saintes. The book evidently belonged to a woman named Barbara, there is a miniature of the saint and several prayers to her inserted in a somewhat later hand. An armorial on folio 28 has been erased and the name Bareau is scribbled on the final pastedown.
TEXT: f.1-6 Calendar; f.7-12 Gospel Sequences, last leaf blank with a prayer to St.Barbara added; f.13 Hours of the Virgin, Matins; f.18 Lauds; f.23v Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Ghost; f.25v Prime; F.28v Terce; f.31 Sext; f.33 None; f.35 Vespers; f.37v Compline; f.39v Penitential Psalms and Litany; f.48v Office of the Dead; f.62v Suffrages to Saints Catherine and Margaret; f.64 blank with prayer to St.Barbara inserted; f.65 Suffrage to St.Barbara. 2 original vellum fly-leaves with the prayer 'Stabat Mater' in verse, in an early hand.
DECORATION:
The artist of this manuscript was either the Master of Adelaide de Savoie or a member of his workshop. He is described as 'Cet artiste, l'un des plus originaux de la constellation d'enluminaires qui fleurit dans l'ouest de la France du temps de Fouquet'. Cf. Avril and Renaud, Les Manuscrits à Peintures en France 1440-1520, pp 123-6. He is also known as the Maître du ms. Poitiers 30, after a missal in the Bibliothèque municipale of Poitiers. He also collaborated with other artists of the Master of the Jouvenel des Ursins group, as in a manuscript sold in our rooms (22 June 1988, lot 206).
THE SUBJECTS OF THE MINIATURES ARE:
folio 13. Annunciation in a gothic chamber
folio 18. Visitation. Two angels beside Mary and Elizabeth. A city with a river at back.
folio 23v. Crucifixion. Christ and the two thieves. Soldiers at one side, the three Maries and St.John the other side (slightly rubbed)
folio 24v. Pentecost, in a gothic chamber
folio 25v. Nativity. A manger with a wattle fence. A female figure at back
folio 28v. Annunciation to the Shepherds. Three men and one woman, a city at back. (rubbed)
folio 31. Adoration of the Magi
folio 33. Presentation in the Temple
folio 35. Flight into Egypt
folio 37v. Coronation of the Virgin
folio 39v. King David kneeling, an altar behind, praying to God. A harp on a bench before him. A red seraph above.
folio 48v. The three Living and the three Dead. Three young men on horseback, faced by three skeletons outside a church
folio 65. St.Barbara kneeling beside a tower. Her father standing behind her, holding a sword about to strike off her head. (rubbed)
[Poitiers?, workshop of the Maître d'Adelaide de Savoie, c.1460]
158 x 110mm, 65 leaves + 2 medieval vellum fly-leaves, COMPLETE, lacking only the final blank leaf. Collation: 1-26 3-48 5-106 112-1, vertical catchwords, 24 lines, justification: 96 x 64mm, written in brown ink in a regular bâtarde hand, rubrics in red, versal initials in gold on red or blue ground, outer panel border on every page of coloured flowers and fruit and gold ivy leaves on hairline stems, 13 LARGE MINIATURES in arched compartments, each within a full border of painted leaves, flowers and fruit on a burnished gold ground, containing also grotesque human and animal figures. (3 miniatures rubbed; occasional staining and smudging). 16th-century blind-tooled calf over paper boards (upper cover and foot of spine worn).
PROVENANCE: The Calendar has some of the saints of Poitiers, such as Hilary, first bishop of Poitiers, Neomadia and Radegunde, the patron saint of Poitiers, with her translation. The book may also have been used at Saintes, as the calendar has also Leodegar (12 Nov.) and Eutropius (30 April) with his translation (14 Oct.), both bishops of Saintes. The book evidently belonged to a woman named Barbara, there is a miniature of the saint and several prayers to her inserted in a somewhat later hand. An armorial on folio 28 has been erased and the name Bareau is scribbled on the final pastedown.
TEXT: f.1-6 Calendar; f.7-12 Gospel Sequences, last leaf blank with a prayer to St.Barbara added; f.13 Hours of the Virgin, Matins; f.18 Lauds; f.23v Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Ghost; f.25v Prime; F.28v Terce; f.31 Sext; f.33 None; f.35 Vespers; f.37v Compline; f.39v Penitential Psalms and Litany; f.48v Office of the Dead; f.62v Suffrages to Saints Catherine and Margaret; f.64 blank with prayer to St.Barbara inserted; f.65 Suffrage to St.Barbara. 2 original vellum fly-leaves with the prayer 'Stabat Mater' in verse, in an early hand.
DECORATION:
The artist of this manuscript was either the Master of Adelaide de Savoie or a member of his workshop. He is described as 'Cet artiste, l'un des plus originaux de la constellation d'enluminaires qui fleurit dans l'ouest de la France du temps de Fouquet'. Cf. Avril and Renaud, Les Manuscrits à Peintures en France 1440-1520, pp 123-6. He is also known as the Maître du ms. Poitiers 30, after a missal in the Bibliothèque municipale of Poitiers. He also collaborated with other artists of the Master of the Jouvenel des Ursins group, as in a manuscript sold in our rooms (22 June 1988, lot 206).
THE SUBJECTS OF THE MINIATURES ARE:
folio 13. Annunciation in a gothic chamber
folio 18. Visitation. Two angels beside Mary and Elizabeth. A city with a river at back.
folio 23v. Crucifixion. Christ and the two thieves. Soldiers at one side, the three Maries and St.John the other side (slightly rubbed)
folio 24v. Pentecost, in a gothic chamber
folio 25v. Nativity. A manger with a wattle fence. A female figure at back
folio 28v. Annunciation to the Shepherds. Three men and one woman, a city at back. (rubbed)
folio 31. Adoration of the Magi
folio 33. Presentation in the Temple
folio 35. Flight into Egypt
folio 37v. Coronation of the Virgin
folio 39v. King David kneeling, an altar behind, praying to God. A harp on a bench before him. A red seraph above.
folio 48v. The three Living and the three Dead. Three young men on horseback, faced by three skeletons outside a church
folio 65. St.Barbara kneeling beside a tower. Her father standing behind her, holding a sword about to strike off her head. (rubbed)