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A LEAF FROM THE GHISTELLES HOURS, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[south west Flanders, c.1299-1300]120 x 81mm. Recto and verso with 11 written lines, justification: 62 x 46mm, recto with two-line initial, the infill with a grotesque's head, and three-quarter bar-border terminating in a man's head and an animal's head in gold, the latter with its open jaws around the tail of the large white hare in the margin (some slight cockling, edges browned, small losses of gold, remnants of paper hinges on verso). Framed.
A leaf from one of the earliest Flemish Books of Hours, originally owned or associated with John III Ghistelles (d.1315), Lord of Ghistelles and Ingelmunster. Various leaves from the already fragmentary manuscript, identified by Rosy Schilling as having once belonged to Sir Sydney Cockerell, were sold by or through Heinrich Eisemann in the 1950s and are now dispersed in public and private collections (see C. de Hamel in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections, 1989, pp.91-2; Sotheby's, 1 December 1998, lots 17-19). The present leaf, opening Lesson ii from matins in the Office of the Dead ('Tedet animam meam...'), does not appear to have been published.
[south west Flanders, c.1299-1300]120 x 81mm. Recto and verso with 11 written lines, justification: 62 x 46mm, recto with two-line initial, the infill with a grotesque's head, and three-quarter bar-border terminating in a man's head and an animal's head in gold, the latter with its open jaws around the tail of the large white hare in the margin (some slight cockling, edges browned, small losses of gold, remnants of paper hinges on verso). Framed.
A leaf from one of the earliest Flemish Books of Hours, originally owned or associated with John III Ghistelles (d.1315), Lord of Ghistelles and Ingelmunster. Various leaves from the already fragmentary manuscript, identified by Rosy Schilling as having once belonged to Sir Sydney Cockerell, were sold by or through Heinrich Eisemann in the 1950s and are now dispersed in public and private collections (see C. de Hamel in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections, 1989, pp.91-2; Sotheby's, 1 December 1998, lots 17-19). The present leaf, opening Lesson ii from matins in the Office of the Dead ('Tedet animam meam...'), does not appear to have been published.
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