| Title: | Ricketts mss. |
| Collection No.: | LMC 2449 |
| Dates: | 800-1899 |
| Quantity: | Quantity: 332 Items |
| Abstract: | The Ricketts mss., 9th-19th cent., are illuminated medieval and renaissance manuscripts assembled by Coella Lindsay Ricketts, 1859-1941, calligrapher, of Chicago, Illinois. Most of the material relates to religious matters. |
| Location: | Lilly - Vault 2; Lilly - Vault 1 (No. 63, 225, 240) |
| Language: | Materials are in multiple languages but primarily Latin. |
| Repository: | Lilly Library 1200 E. Seventh St. Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500 Business Number: 812-855-2452 liblilly@indiana.edu URL: https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library |
Coella Lindsay Ricketts, 1859-1941, was a renowned calligrapher and illuminator of Chicago, Illinois. Ricketts founded The Scriptorium, a firm specializing in calligraphy and illuminations, in 1885.
Inventory has been transcribed from the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts ... by Seymour De Ricci with the assistance of W.J. Wilson. New York, Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1961. pp. 617-633 (Lilly Z6620 .U5 R49 1961). Additional description of some manuscripts comes from A Descriptive Catalogue of Thrity-Six of the Bound Manuscripts in the C.L. Ricketts Collection, Lilly Library, Indiana University by W. Gordon Wheeler, Lilly Fellow, 1966-67 and Gilding the Lilly : A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library by Christopher de Hamel. Bloomington, IN, The Lilly Library, 2010.
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[Item], Ricketts mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Purchase: 1973
Obtained in 1907 from Ludwig Rosenthal (Inv. n. 351206).
Physical Description: Parchment, a leaf, 519 mm. by 367 mm., 2 columns, ruled in plummet, 50 lines, each column 398 mm. by 118 mm. with 25 mm. between columns, script beginning above top ruled line; written in a large late romanesque textura, capitula numbers in red; 25 large initials, mostly 3-line, either in colour (red, blue, green or yellow) with contrasting infill and flourishing, or in highly burnished gold on coloured panels infilled with delicate coloured foliage. (de Hamel 2010, n. 24, p. 54)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceObtained in Paris from Barroux, Cat. 25 (1930), n. 8953.
Obtained in 1907 from Hill and Son, London.
Obtained in Paris from Barroux, Cat. 24 (1929), n. 8588.
Physical Description: Gothic script. 388 leaves. 2 columns, 53 lines to the page. On very fine white vellum. Marginal numerical indicators and conections in contemporary hands (several shaved in binding). Modern pagination in pencil, 1-769, but repeating 601-606. 26 gatherinrrs; of 2 leaves p. 1-4; of 16, pp. 5-34 (but wanting leaf containing beginning of Genesis, 1:1-2:6, after p. 8); of 16, pp. 35-418; of 18, pp. 419-454; of 16, pp. 455-518; of 12, pp . 519-542; of 16, pp. 543-728; of 16, pp. 729-758 (but wantinp, final loaf, possibly containing index to New Testament other than the Gospels); of 10, pp. 759-769 (but wanting leaves 6-9, leaf 10 is paste-down). Traces of quire catch-words, and of alphabetical signing a-h within some quires towards the end. 136 very delicate small zoomorphic, foliate and inhabited initials in rose, blue, yellow, red and white. One historiated initial at p. 5, showing St. Jerome at his desk as a scribe. Headlines and rubrication in red and/or blue with penwork decoration to the plain initials. Bound in sheepskin over thin beechen boards; traces of two green ribbon clasps hinging on the upper cover and fastening to studs in the middle of the lower cover. Edges painted in red with a double-line lattice pattern. 14th century? (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Dimensions: 17 x 12 cm. (trimmed)
Scope and Contents: Copy in a 13th-century hand of a Bull of Gregory IX (dated 14 May, 1227) confirming the Dominican Order in its rights to preach and hear confession (the Order had been founded in 1218, and 1227 was the first year of Gregory's papacy), p. 1; chapter index to Genesis up to the beginning of Job and to the Gospels, pp. 2-4, 757-758; St. Jerome's prologue (wanting last few sentences), pp. 5-8; Bible (wanting Genesis 1:1-2:6), pp. 9-680; interpretation of the Hebrew names, pp. 681-742; list of Gospels and Epistles for the daily offices, pp. 742-747; list of lections for principal festivals, saints' days and special occasions, pp. 748-756; a church calendar with emphases indicating a French Dominican house, and including the feast of St. Peter of Verona, here called 'Blessed', but who was canonised in 1253 (wanting November and December), pp. 759-768; ownership inscription, p. 769. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
ProvenanceHanc Bibliam emi ego Guillelmus Aynaudi in Lugduno pretio 16 florenorum pro monasterio Cartuse in Ast. Bears also the ex-libris of the Asti Carthusiaus : lxxii monasterii Cartusie Ast. (Asti in Piemont). -- Jam (ca. 1830) ex lib. sacerdotis Viglione Jacob. Ant., dominici S. Albani; et a fratre dulcissimo et dilectissimo Johanni Staglio, Joseph Pinelli, 1843. -- Obtained in 1922 from W. M. Voynich.
Physical Description: Gothic script. 295, iv leaves. 2 columns, 59 lines to the page. On vellum. 22 x 16 cm. (trimmed) Many marginal corrections, notes and comments in hands of the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries (shaving affects several notes and headlines), with a few words of Greek in the latest hand. Modern foliation in pencil. 25 gatherings; of 12 leaves, ff. 1-60; of 14, ff. 61-74; of 12, ff. 75-146; of 4, ff. 147-150; of 13, ff. 151-163; of 12, ff. 164-283; of 14, ff. 284-295 (but wanting final two leaves containing Revelation 21:23-22[end]). A pair of modern vellum fly-leaves at beginning and at end. Quires numbered in 14th-century roman ordinals ius-[xxivus], but counting ff. 147-163 as one; modern quire number in pencil. 18th-century pagination in ink, 1-588 but repeating pp. 226-227. 72 divided initials in red and blue with foliate filling and marginal or column pendants in green. 61 divided or plain initials in red and/or blue with penwork decoration. Headlines and rubrication in red and/or blue. Bound in crushed olive morocco stamped in black with central diaper of a formal flower tool; gilt quatrefoils in corners. Edges gilt. 19th century, English. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Scope and Contents: Contents list made for the Bibliotheca Swaniana, f.1r; blank, f.1v; modern notes recording examination of the ms. by Thomas D. Hardy, William Hardy and J.A. Herbert, f.iir; blank, f.iiv; St. Jerome's prologue, ff.1r-2v; Old Testament (with books of Esdras not in the normal order of the Vulgate, without Psalms), f.3r-233r; list in 14th-century hand of the commentators for the various books of the Bible--"Hi vocantur doctores tractantes de unoquoque libro sancte scripture", f.233v; New Testament (wanting Revelation 21:32-22[end]), ff.234r-295v; blank ff.iii r-iv v. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
ProvenanceWas in 1793 in the "Bibliotheca Swaniana"; Peter Hardy sale (London, 29 July 1863, n. 265) to Willis. -- Obtained from Leighton, Cat. of mss. [1912], n. 24, facs. (de Ricci 1935, p. 618)
Provenance(i) Thomas Jakson (inscriptions ff. 56, 154, 289), ca. 1600 (? Thomas Jackson, 1579-1640, president of Corpus Christi, Oxford, who left his books to the College); (ii) Bibliotheca Swaniana, 1793 (inscription on f. i); (iii) Peter Hardy (initialed note on f. ii), sale London 29 July 1863, no. 265 to Willis. Acquired by C.L. Ricketts from Leighton, Cat. of mss. [1912], no. 24 (illus.). (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Obtained from Tregaskis.
Physical Description: Parchment, 160 leaves (last blank), 331 mm. by 230 mm., collation: i 1+8 (including original flyleaf, foliated '1'), ii-ix 8 , x 4 , xi-xv 8 , xvi 7 [of 8, blank viii cancelled after fol. 124], xvii-xx 8 , xxi 4 , with horizontal catchwords; ruled in plummet for 44 lines, with the biblical texts in a central column of varying width (written on alternate ruled lines) and the glosses fitted in interlocking blocks on either side of the biblical text (written on the ruled lines themselves), combined written-space 209 mm. by 133 mm.; written in two sizes of a calligraphic gothic textura, a few small textual initials in red and blue, running-titles in alternating red and blue letters, each gloss beginning with a paragraph-mark alternating red and blue trailing penwork decoration embellished with sprays in the contrasting colour; ten large illuminated initials in ornamental designs of plant stems and some small lions on panels, painted in colours with infilling in burnished gold (fols. 4r, 79r, 89v, 100r, 107v, 119r, 120v, 121v, 125r and 126r, together with a small illuminated initial on fol. 78r); some marginal additions; bound in late eighteenth-century French calf, gilt spine, paper endleaves, printed label inside lower cover "Relié à Chartres, chez Hamerville Libraire ruë de trois Maillets" (as reproduced in Gruel 1905, p. 91); in a green cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 28, p. 62)
Language: Latin .
Scope and Contents: Blank, f.1r; incomplete contents list by folio for Acts using hte early foliation (14th-century ? hand), f.1v; introduction and contents list for Acts, ff.2r-3v; Acts, ff.4r-77r; blank, 77v; Epistole 'canonice', ff.78r-124v; Apocalipsis, ff.125r-159v; blank, 160r; erased notes and a list of the desirable ways to pray, f.160v. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
ProvenancePierre Gélis-Didot sale (Paris, 1897, n. 3); Cecil Mallaby Firth coll.; bought (March 1906) by George Dunn; his sale (London, 1913. I, n. 356) to Young. -- Obtained from Young. (de Ricci 1935, p. 619)
ProvenanceBound in Chartres, and perhaps from an institutional library in that region dispersed at the French Revolution; Pierre Gélis-Didot (b. 1853), his sale, Paris, Belin-Drouot, 12 April 1897, lot 3; Cecil Mallaby Firth (1878-1931), Egyptologist, with his bookplate; George Dunn (1865-1912), with his booklabel, bought in March 1900, probably from Sydney Cockerell (to judge from Dunn's pencil note "S.C.C."); Dunn sale, Sotheby's, 11 February 1913, lot 356, to Young; bought the following day by C.L. Ricketts. (de Hamel 2010, n. 28, p. 62)
Obtained in 1926 from Quaritch.
Physical Description: Parchment, 500 leaves (last blank), 225 mm. by 154 mm., collation: i 13 [of 14, lacking i], ii-xiii 14 , xiv 8 , xv 14 , xvi-xvii 16 , xviii-xxvi 14 , xxvii 18 , xxviii-xxxiii 14 , xxxiv 9 [of 10, blank x cancelled after fol. 472], xxxv-xxxvi 14 , with traces of catchwords in cartouches (just visible, for example, on fols. 139v, 291v and 488v, ends of quires x, xxi and xxxv); 2 columns, ruled in plummet, 50-51 lines, each column 128 mm. by 41 mm. with 5 mm. between columns, script beginning below top ruled line; written in a small rounded italianate textura, headings in red, running-titles in alternating red and blue capitals, chapter initials in red or blue with full-length penwork decoration on most pages in the contrasting colour, some larger painted initials in colours on panelled grounds; eighty-three historiated initials up to the full height of the page (the Genesis initial) but mostly about 8 lines high, in elaborate leafy and animal designs in colours and burnished gold (fols. 2v, 3r, 21r, 35v, 45v, 60r, 73r, 82r, 91v, 93r, 93v, 106v, 116v, 128v, 140r, 151r, 165r, 169r, 174v, 180v, 190r, 194r, 199r, 205r, 215r, 218r, 220r, 222r, 224r, 226v, 229r, 231v, 236r, 244r, 247r, 248v, 254v, 270r, 288r, 311r, 313v, 333v, 342r, 345r, 346r, 348v, 349r, 351v (two initials), 353r, 353v, 355r, 355v, 359r, 360r, 371v, 380r, 391v, 399v, 412v, 422v, 427v, 432r, 435r, 436v, 438r, 439r, 440r, 441r, 442r, 443r, 444r, 444v, 445r, 448v, 461v, 462v, 464r, 464v, 466r (three initials) and 467r); some rubbing and lifting of ink (as often with Italian parchment); found in fifteenth-century Italian blind-stamped leather over thin wooden boards sewn on 5 thongs, the sides panelled with a broad frame infilled with multiple impressions of ropework tools, the central compartments with a geometrical design in ropework stamps resembling an 8-pointed star (or two squares at angles to each other), lacking 2 clasps and catches, parchment pastedowns; in a green cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 31, p. 68)
Language: Latin .
Scope and Contents: Final portion of Jerome's prologue to Paulinus, beginning "regiam et tantus amator legis divine...", and the preface to the Pentateuch, ff.1r-3r; Biblia, ff.3r-472v; interpretation of the Hebrew names, ff.473r-499r; blank, 499v-500v.
A present from W. M. Voynich (1916).
Two of these ff. were obtained from Tregaskis, Cat. 777 (14 Feb. 1916) n. 37.
Obtained in 1924 from Weyhe, New York.
Physical Description: Parchment, 11 disbound leaves, 449 mm. by 310 mm., 2 columns, ruled in plummet, 22 lines, each column 311 mm. by 93 mm. with 17 mm. between columns; written in brown ink in a very large gothic display textura, headings in red; chapter numbers and running-titles in alternating red and blue capitals; some 2-line chapter initials in burnished gold on blue and pink panels with white tracery and branching marginal sprays terminating in coloured petals; two 3-line illuminated initials for prologues, one enclosing an animal; three 4-line historiated initials showing Baruch writing, with full bar border surrounding the page and between teh columns (fol. 261r), Daniel in the lions' den (fol. 339r), and God appearing to Amos as a shepherd (fol. 380v); eighteenth-century folio numbers (followed here) in pale red ink. (de Hamel 2010, n. 47, p. 104)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceObtained in 1930 from Tregaskis (1 f.) and Myers (2 ff.). -- For another leaf of the same ms., cf. Chicago Art Institute (31.25) and for 4 others, cf. Newberry Library (Ry. I). Purdue University; Bodleian, Oxford. (de Ricci 1935, p. 620)
ProvenancePerhaps the Carmelite convent in Chester (see below); Richard Legh, of East Hall, High Legh, Cheshire, 1613; Richard Maria Domville (c. 1600-1667) who gave it in 1665 to Sir Peter Leycester (1614-1678), of Nether Tabley, Cheshire, and it apparently remained at Nether Tabley probably until the 1920s; broken up by Myers, bookseller of New Bond Street, London; leaves bought in 1930 by C. L. Ricketts. (de Hamel 2010, n. 47, p. 104)
Physical Description: Humanistic script. 160 leaves. 50-55 lines to the page. On two different papers manufactured in Italy, and in use in Venetia and north-eastern Italy, 1456-1476 (Watermarks: Griffon-Briquet 7464, Zonghi 854; Calender or paper polisher--Briquet 2878, Zonghi 1580). 29 x 21 cm. Possibly in two very similar hands; the old-fashioned gothic "stroking" of "i" ceases at f.49r. Modern foliation at commencement of gatherings in pencil. 16 gatherings of 10 leaves, ff. 1-160. Two fly-leaves of thick wove paper, at beginning and end. Quire catch-words. Tituli in a mixture of roman capitals and uncials, and in red in the second half of the volume. Book initials 'divided' and painted in blue with red penwork decoration; plain initials and paragraph marks painted in red or blue. Outlines in pen and pencil for 4 arcaded canon tables, only three of the tables are written in (in red). Bound in lightly sprinkled brown calf, with three-line frame in gilt; spine panelled in gilt with red morocco lettering piece: "S. Jeronimi liber proverbiorum, &c." Edges sprinkled. 18th century, French (end-papers have Limousin Moyen watermark of the mid-18th century). (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Scope and Contents: Proverbs (with chapter list), ff.1r-12v; Ecclesiastes (with chapter list), ff.13r-17r; Song of Songs, ff.17r-19r; Wisdom (with chapter list), ff.19r-27v.; Ecclesiasticus (with chapter list), ff.27v-49r; I-II Chronicles, ff.49r-78r; I-II Ezra, ff.78v-90v; Job (with Jerome's first preface only), ff.90v-103v; Tobit, ff.103v-108r; Judith, ff.108v-114v; Esther, ff.114v-120r; I-II Maccabees (with chapter lists), ff.120r-146r; blank, ff.146v-150v; Canon tables of the Gospels, ff.151r-152v; prefaces to the Gospels and summary of Matthew, ff.153r-155v; blank, ff.156r-160v.
ProvenanceColl. of the Duke of Sussex ( Bibl. Sussexiana, I, 1, pp. C-CI, n. 24); his sale (London, 1844, II, n. 379), bought by Payne and Foss; given (Dec. 1850) by Frederick Sergent to the Protestant College, Malta. -- Obtained in 1924 from Miles, Leeds.
Physical Description: Parchment, 3 disbound leaves, 490 mm. by 330 mm., 2 columns, ruled in plummet, 30 lines, prickings in outer margins only, each column 330 mm. by 98 mm. with 22 mm. between columns; written in dark brown ink in a large semi-cursive bookhand, rubrics in red, versal initials and running-titles in alternating red and blue letters; second leaf with a 2-line initial in blue with penwork decoration in lines of burnished gold; each leaf with a very large 6-line illuminated initial, approximately 67 mm. by 69 mm., with a three-quarter illuminated floral border, including two perching birds. (de Hamel 2010, n. 65, p. 146)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceObtained from E. von Scherling, Cat. 11 (1930), n. 953.
Physical Description: Parchment, a leaf, 293 mm. by 203 mm., ruled in plummet, recto blank, verso with an illuminated miniature 184 mm. by 140 mm. divided into four compartments, with four marginal captions in French in a gothic textualis, small initials in alternating blue or red with contrasting penwork. (de Hamel 2010, n. 43, p. 94)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceObtained from J. Rimell, ca. 1909. -- Three other ff. of the same ms. are in the Chicago Art Institute, n. 22, 1-3.
Physical Description: Parchment, 288 leaves, 367 mm. by 257 mm., collation: i-xxxvi 8 , with contemporary numerical signatures on last versos, one catchword (fol. 144v, end of quire xviii); 2 columns, ruled in plummet for 43 lines but the text broken into consecutive blocks of text (written on alternate ruled lines) and commentary (written on the ruled lines themselves), each column 264 mm. by 82 mm. with 11 mm. between each column, prickings in outer margins; written in two sizes of a rather square early Germanic gothic textura, headings in dark red, authorities in dark red in margins keyed into the text with pairs of dark red dots, one-line verse initials and 2-line psalm initials throughout in red, opening letters of major psalms in red and blue capitals; seventeen large initials in many colours on stepped panelled grounds (two illuminated and historiated, fols. 1v and 213r, five illuminated but with animals or other decoration, fols. 3r (two initials), 96v (two initials) and 190v, three historiated but without gold or silver, fols. 45v, 73r and 186v, and seven in small painted or leafy designs, fols. 97v, 125v, 158v, 220r, 257r, 265r and 276r), showing, 1, a sainted biship writing at a desk, at the upper left a seated angel reaching through the initial to command the writer, and, at the lower left, an angry demon falling backwards, being snarled at by one of the lion-headed finials of the writer's chair (fol. 1v, prologue, approximately 90 mm. by 85 mm.), 2-3, a naked man in the foliage and a 'B' with a dragon (fol. 3r, psalm 1, text and gloss, 104 mm. by 70 mm. and 52 mm. by 33 mm.), 4 a half-length bearded priest holding an inscribed open book, blessed by the hand of God, a naked man above being overturned and devoured by a green dragon forming the initial's ascender (fol. 45v, psalm 26, 48 mm. extending to 63 mm. by 43 mm.), 5, David playing the harp (fol. 73r, psalm 38, 53 mm. by 45 mm.), 6-7, two initials 'Q', one with a crouching man in a red tunic below spewing forth a dragon which forms the tail of the initial (fol. 96v, psalm 51, text and gloss, 90 mm. extending to 107 mm. by 66 mm. extending to 98 mm., and 44 mm. by 36 mm. extending to 63 mm.), 8, initial 'D' (fol. 97v, psalm 52, 42 mm. by 35 mm.), 9, initial 'S' (fol. 125v, psalm 68, 43 mm. by 30 mm.), 10, initial 'E' (fol. 158v, psalm 90, 40 mm. by 40 mm.), 11, a wild-haired Samson tearing at the jaws of a lion with his legs clasped around the lion's neck (fol. 186v, psalm 97, 47 mm. by 41 mm.), 12, initial 'D' (fol. 190v, psalm 101, 70 mm. by 72 mm.), 13, Christ seated blessing, holding a book (fol. 213r, psalm 109, 54 mm. by 44 mm.), 14, initial 'D' formed of a dragon emerging from the mouth of a naked child (fol. 220r, psalm 114), 15, traces only of an initial scraped away, perhaps because it showed a 'C' or 'S', rather than 'M' (fol. 257r, psalm 191), 16, initial 'C' enclosing two fighting lions (fol. 265r, psalm 137, 35 mm. by 28 mm.) and 17, initial 'B' (fol. 276r, psalm 143, 55 mm. by 45 mm.); some thirteenth-century additions or corrections (e.g., fols. 115v, 205v and 214r-v); bound in nineteenth-century blind-stamped brown morocco [by Charles Tucket, c. 1860, according to de Ricci], paper pastedowns, text block broken away from binding; in a dark brown cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 27, pp. 60-61)
Language: Latin .
Scope and Contents: Blank, f.1r; preface, ff.1v-2v; Psalterium with commentary, ff.34-287v; postscript, ff.287v-288r; blank f.288v.
The incipits of the psalms having decorated initials are in red and blue; plain initials in red or blue; marginal references in red to teh authors (Augustine, Cassiorus, Remigius of Auxere, Jerome) cited in the adjacent column--the citations in the text are marked by two superscript red dots. Words in the commentary which are being explained are underlined in red.
An initial (f. 45 v.) shows the portrait of a priest with the inscription : [indistinct] plebanus de Lindaugia qui nobis dedit hunc librum. -- Belonged in the XVIIIth c. to the Praemonstratensians at Weissenau. -- Probably n. 106 in a sale by Sotheby (London, 6 Feb. 1861, bought by Boone). English bookplate removed and inscription erased. -- Obtained in Jan. 1917 from W. M. Voynich. -- An initial is reproduced by E. F. Rothschild, The Univ. of Chicago magazine, XXII (Feb. 1930), p. 194. (de Ricci 1935, p. 621)
ProvenanceGiven by Rudolf, priest of Lindau, to a monastery, doubtless the Premonstratensian imperian abbey of Weissenau (founded in 1145, suppressed in 1803), where it was by the time of the eighteenth-century inscription on fol. 1r, "Bibliothecę Weissenaw"; probably one of the two twelfth- to thirteenth-century Psalter commentaries noted by M. Gerbert on his visit to Weissenau in 1760 (Lehmann 1918, p. 408); many manuscripts from Weissenau were appropriated by the last abbot, Bonaventura Brem (1755-1818), who retired to Schloss Liebenau, whence they were bought c. 1842 by Georg von Waldburg-Zeil, S.J. (1823-1866), for the Jesuit College at Fribourg-en-Suisse, but were dispersed in 1854 before the presentation had been made; bound in London, c. 1860; probably not lot 106 in the Savile sale, Sotheby's, 6 February 1861 (as suggested by de Ricci); Sir Thomas Brooke (1830-1908), by 1891; his sale, Sotheby's, 24 November 1913, lot 13; bought from W. M. Voynich in January 1917 by C. L. Ricketts. (de Hamel 2010, n. 27, pp. 60-61)
Obtained in 1929 from E. Weyhe, New York.
Obtained in 1929 from E. von Scherling (compare his Cat. 8, Dec. 1929, n. 765?).
Physical Description: Parchment, 33 leaves, 197 mm. by 125 mm., a fragment of a much larger manuscript, 2 columns, ruled in red ink, 32 lines, each column 145 mm. by 37 mm. with 6 mm. between columns; written in dark brown ink in a small liturgical textura, extensive rubrics in red, versal initals in alternating blue with red penwork and burnished gold with red or pale blue penwork; 2- to 3-line initials throughout in burnished gold on red and blue panel grounds with white tracery; traces of different sequences of old folio numbers in ink and in pencil (now mostly erased); bound in black morocco. (de Hamel 2010, n. 41, p. 90)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceObtained from Tregaskis. (de Ricci 1935, pp. 621 and 625)
ProvenanceThe Benedictine abbey of Saint Peter, Chertsey, Surrey (see below); C.L. Ricketts, who bought 27 leaves from Leighton, Catalogue of Manuscripts, 1912, no. 49 (now Ricketts MS 47) and 6 further leaves from Tregaskis (now Ricketts MS 23). (de Hamel 2010, n. 41, p. 90)
Related Materials: See also Ricketts 47.
Physical Description: Parchment, 203 leaves, 108 mm. by 79 mm., made in two stages, (a) fols. 1-152 (quires i-xix), c. 1250, with two leaves replaced) and (b) fols. 153-203 (quires xx-xxvi), c. 1360, collation: (a) i-xiii 8 , xiv 7+1 [of 8, lacking iii, replaced c. 1360, fol. 107], xv 7+1 [of 8, lacking viii, replaced c. 1360, fol. 120], xv-xix 8 and (b) xx 7 [of 8, lacking iii, a leaf after fol. 154], xxi-xxv 8 , xxvi 4 , with horizontal catchwords in (b); (a) ruled in plummet, 19 lines, written-space 72 mm. by 53 mm., beginning below top ruled line, (b) ruled apparently in ink, 19 lines also, written-space 73 mm. by 50 mm., both parts written in a small textura (the later part in paler ink and notably better written), red and blue versal initials throughout; 2-line illuminated initials for psalms; eight historiated initials in the first part, mostly 7-line, showing Samuel anointing David (fol. 21v, Dominus illuminatio, psalm 26), David pointing to his mouth (fol. 35r, Dixi custodiam, psalm 38), the fool with his club and bauble (fol. 47v, Dixit insipiens, psalm 52), David in the water praying to God abov (fol. 60r, Salvum me fac, psalm 68), David with a viol (fol. 75v, Exultate deo, psalm 80), 3 priests at a lectern (fol. 90r, Cantate domino, psalm 97), the Father and Son together (fol. 105r, Dixit dominus, psalm 109) and a bier between candles (fol. 108r, Dilexi quoniam, psalm 114); two larger illuminated initials in the second part (fols. 174v and 190v) by the same hand which erased the original initial on fol. 1r and replaced it with a 14-line Beatus initial in gothic style enclosing David and Goliath in the upper compartment; bound in modern calf preserving parts of sides and spine of early sixteenth-century blind-stamped leather including repeated quatrefoils within lozenges; in a brown cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 48, pp. 107-108)
Language: Latin .
Scope and Contents: Psalterium, ff.1r-136v; canticles, ff.136v-149v; litany, ff.149v-152v; (the following sections all in a different hand) verses, "O Maria mater pia", ff.153r-154v; cantica to the B.V.M., on the psalms, ff.154v-175v; Aves to the B.V.M. in rhyming couplets and in two sections, beginning, "Ave lignum excelsum glorie" and, on f.190v, "Ave virgo lignum mite", ff.175v-203r; blank, f.203v.
9 historiated and illuminated initials mostly with foliate and cusped marginal extensions; 2 decorated and illuminated initials; 185 small plain illuminated initials. Tituli in red; plain initials painted in red or blue. Colours: blue, rose, lavender, grey, white, rust.
Successively owned (XVth c.) by Sœur Ragonde Materne and Sœur Anne de Saintray, of the royal monastery at Poissy. -- Tregaskis, Cat. 466 (18 June 1900), n. 489; Cat. 472 (16 Sept. 1900), n. 601; Cat. 479 (10 Dec. 1900), n. 623; William Harris Arnold sale (New York, 10 Nov. 1924, n. 601). (de Ricci 1935, p. 621)
ProvenanceThe Dominican convent of Poissy, on the Seine, near Paris, probably there by c. 1360 and certainly at Poissy by the late fifteenth century; Tregaskis cat. 466 (June 1900), no. 489, cat. 472 (September 1900), no. 601, and cat. 479 (December 1900), no. 623; William Harris Arnold (1854-1924), with his bookplate; his sale, Anderson, New York, 10 November 1924, lot 601; C. L. Ricketts. (de Hamel 2010, n. 48, pp. 107-108)
Physical Description: Gothic script. 30 leaves only of an original estimated to contain about 248 leaves; the leaves are not consecutive and are bound in random order. 16 lines to the page. On vellum, 19 x 12 cm. Modern foliation in pencil; the true order of the leaves is indicated by an alphabetical sequence in pencil in the bottom margin, a-z and A-D. Gatherings probably originally of 8 and 6 leaves. Quire numbers in red roman ordinals, and catch-words, all in ornamental frames survive for gatherings ii, iii, v, xiiii, and xxii. 7 illuminated initials painted in blue, rose, and rust, infilled by and with marginal extensions of ivy branches; 368 small illuminated initials on irregular rectangles of blue and rose ornamented in white; illuminated line endings of strips divided into various geometrical patterns and painted in blue, rose, and white; tituli in red. Bound in brown morocco; two gilt metal clasps hinging on the lower cover; red edges. 2nd quarter of 19th century, English. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Scope and Contents:
The Duke of Sussex coll.; Robert Steele sale (London, 15 June 1903, n. 468) to Tregaskis, Cat. 546 (23 Nov. 1903), n. 470; Cat. 552 (14 March 1904), n. 487; Cat. 558 (11 July 1904), n. 447; Cat. 568 (9 Jan. 1905), n. 431; Cat. 578 (10 July 1905), n. 418; sale by Puttick (London, 1 Aug. 1906, n. 436) to Leighton (Cat. of mss. [1912], n. 328), from whom it was obtained by the present owner. -- The only ms. in the Duke of Sussex coll. which seems to correspond in any way with the above description is the following : Psalmi paenitentiales septem. Vel. (XVth c.), 36 ff. (19 x 12 cm.), from the Meerman coll. (not traceable in Meerman sale, 1824); Bibl. Sussexiana, I, 1, p. CLXXXIV, n. 127; Duke of Sussex sale (London, 1844, II, n. 396) to Thorpe. (de Ricci 1935, p. 621-22)
Provenance(i) ? Augustus Frederick, duke of Sussex (bookplate detached, but see remarks at end for doubts on this); (ii) Robert Steele, Wandsworth Common (bookplate) -- sale, London, June 15, 1903, item no. 468 to (iii) Tregaskis, Catalogues, 546 (November 23, 1903), no. 470; 552 (March 14, 1904), no. 487; 558 (July 11, 1904), no. 447; 568 (January 9, 1905), no. 431; 578 (July 10, 1905), no. 418; sale by Puttick, London, August 1, 1906, item no. 436, to (iv) Leighton, Catalogue of manuscripts, 1912, no. 328. Acquired by C. L. Ricketts from Leighton, 1912
The loose Sussex bookplate has abrasions on the back but shows no sign of the colour of the marbled endpapers; conversely the endpapers do not appear damaged in any way and have no traces of what might have been the bookplate adhering to them. It is doubtful if this manuscript was ever in the Sussex collection. De Ricci's suggestion in the Census that it could only have been item 396 in the Sussex sale of 1844 will not stand up to analysis for several reasons. It cannot possibly be considered a manuscript of the seven penitencial psalms, as not one of these psalms is present, and even if it is accepted that the 36 leaves given by De Ricci is a misprint or misreading for 30, the hand of the present manuscript would require only 9 leaves to cover all seven psalms. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Physical Description: Parchment, 119 leaves (2 blank), 227 mm. by 153 mm., collation: i 7 [first blank (not included in foliation), of 8, a second blank ii cancelled], ii-xv 8 [last blank], with horizontal catchwords mostly in simple cartouches, some contemporary leaf signatures; ruled in brown, apparently in ink, 23 lines, written-space 154 mm. by 98 mm.; written in brown ink in a regular well-formed gothic textura, rubrics in red, versal initials in red or blue; 2-line psalm initials in blue with red penwork; eight large illuminated initials in coloured leafy designs on illuminated panels with three-quarter bar branching borders (the first with a full border), on fols. 7r (psalm 1), 22v (psalm 26), 32v (psalm 38), 42r (psalm 52), 51r (psalm 68), 62r (psalm 80), 72r (psalm 97) and 83r (psalm 109); a few early additions; bound in early eighteenth-century English mottled calf, red speckled edges, paper endleaves; in a green cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 53, p. 118)
Language: Latin .
Scope and Contents: Blank, unnumbered initial leaf; kalendar, ff.1r-6v; psalms, ff.7r-103v; canticles, ff.103v-113r; litany, ff.113r-117v; blank, f.118.
A few births and obits of members of the Tyryngham (i.e., Tyringham) family of Bucks from the 1520s have been written into the Kalendar but erased. All papal references in the Kalendar have been defaced, probably in the 1540s.
ProvenanceObtained in 1912 from Sotheran.
Physical Description: Written in England (Sarum use). Gothic script. 89 (of 92) leaves. 2 columns and principally 31 lines to the page, but with changes of hand towards the end there are 41 and 40 lines to the page. On vellum, 18 x 12 cm. Pencilled note on verso of front free end-paper assigning the Psalter to England ca. 1400 and signed S.C. Cockerell. Modern foliation in pencil, 1-89, (i) 12 gatherings: of 8 leaves, ff.1-40; of 8, ff.41-47 (but wanting second leaf); of 8, ff.48-79; of 8, ff.80-85 (but wanting outermost fold); of 4, ff.86-89, plus a single leaf which originally preceded f.1. Quire catchwords on ornamental coloured scrolls. The multi-coloured catch-word scrolls and accompanying devices are of very considerable interest: f.8v - a forearm grasps a horn; f.16v - two demi-angels with wings spread support the same arms which appear in the borders; f.24v - the lion of St. Mark; f.32v - head and shoulders of a crowned king; f.40v - a jewelled ring; f.47v - two birds standing with wings flapping; f.55v - a horn suspended by a ribbon; f.63v - the Paraclete; f.71v - a branch forming the letter M, surmounted by a dagger; f.79v - a demi-angel. Bound in straight-grained red morocco with a border roll of linked C's or curves within a frame of three-line rolls; the central panels are outlined in blind with straight and wavy lines and have bird-like floral corner pieces; spine gilt with double beaded bands and with Greek key tooling at head and tail; brown and blue marbled end-papers; edges gilt. First quarter of 19th century, English. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Scope and Contents: Psalter with versicles and responses for the weekday hours, ff.1r-74v; canticles, etc., ff.74v-77r; littanies, ff.77r-80r; note (in Latin) on the period of indulgence granted to sayers and hearers of the Sarum use, f.80r; blank, f.80v; Hours of the Virgin (in a smaller hand; 41 lines), ff.81r-85v; Hours of the Cross, ff.86r-87v; In commemoracione sancte thome (in a different ink; 40 lines), ff.87v-88v; a note (in Latin) on how St. Thomas a Becket was found to be dressed when he was being prepared for burial, and on his hasty burial in spite of the prohibitions of "impious men", ff.88v-89r; blank, 89v; beginning of a Requiem Mass in a crude 16th-century hand, f.(i)r; beginning of an English translation of Psalm 1 in a late 18th- or early 19th-century hand, f.(i)v.
7 pages with full illuminated foliate and floriated borders and each with a blue and rose historiated initial on an irregular rectangle of burnished gold; the decorations of the borders and of column dividers are supported on a gold bar frame. The principal colours used in the borders and historiations are blue, rose, orange, red, green, powdered gold, and grey, and the principal motif of the borders is an interlace of curving acanthus leaves in blue and rose at the corners and centre of all four sides of the frames; a delicate ground of fine penwork tendrils and branches, with flower terminals and tiny gold ivy leaves and disks, fills in the interstices.
Arms of first owners (gules a cross or, Barnaveile, Burnaville or Burge ) with their initials (MB and LB in a monogram); owned ca. 1500 by Thomas Bowles Powell, of Cambridgeshire. -- Obtained from Leighton, Cat. of mss. [1912], n. 268, facs. (de Ricci 1935, p. 622)
Provenance(i) Barnaveile, Burnaville or Burge (arms and initials of original owners); (ii) Thomas Bowles or Powell of Cambridgeshire (variant 16th century trial signatures on f.(i)r); (iii) "In s..abbey st amblavitoris (??) no assurance, quod huius ex Selby" (very tentative reading of erased 16th-century inscription on f.(i)v); (iv) pressmark or initials C.A.A. on f.(i)r; (v) Charles Fox (inscription). Acquired by C.L. Ricketts from Leighton Catalogue of Manuscripts [1912], no. 268 facsimile.
Taking several factors in the decoration into consideration, it is tempting to assume that this Psalter was a wedding gift (the linked monograms, the ring in the catchword) for two people with surnames begining with B (MB and LB); the arms have been variously ascribed to the Barnaveile, Burnaville or Burge families and the grasped horn of the catchwords is the crest and armorial charge of the Bagshawes of Derbyshire. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Physical Description: Parchment, 138 leaves, 278 mm. by 184 mm., collation: i 6 , ii-xvii 8 , xviii 4 , with horizontal catchwords and traces of contemporary leaf signatures; ruled in red ink, 21 lines, written-space 167 mm. by 102 mm.; written in dark brown ink in a fine compressed liturgical textura, headings in red, versal initials in alternating blue with red penwork and burnished gold with purple penwork; 2-line psalm initials in gold on red and blue grounds with white tracery, and 3-line initials in gold on panels infilled with coloured leaves and with marginal sprays (for psalms 101, 114, etc.); seven 6-line initials with three-quarter illuminated borders, on fols. 23v (psalm 26), 34v (psalm 38), 44v (psalm 52), 54r (psalm 68), 66v (rather rubbed, psalm 80), 78r (psalm 97) and 90r (psalm 109); 6-line historiated and full border on fol. 7r, approximately 40 mm. by 55 mm., showing a man in red kneeling before David with his harp; some pages very rubbed; bound in old (perhaps seventeenth-century) blue silk over pasteboards, marbled endleaves, paper flyleaves, worn; in a brown morocco case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 57, pp. 126-127)
Language: Latin .
Scope and Contents: Kalendar, ff.1r-6v; psalms, ff.74-115r; canticles, ff.115r-126r; litany, ff.126r-131r; Office of the dead, ff.131v-138r; blank, f.138v.
Many births, marriages and daths of members of the Hunt, Starkey and Sanders familys of Leicestershire and London noted in the margins of ff.103v-109v in various hands of the 16th-18th century; the period covered is 1582-1728. All papal references save one have been defaced in the Kalendar.
ProvenanceGiven (1585) by Mary Lusher to her husband John Hunt; passes (ca. 1650) to the Starkey family; Quaritch, Gen. cat., 1880, n. 8575; Cat. 332 (1880), n. 41; Gen. cat., VIII (1884), n. 17397; Cat. 369 (1886), n. 35668; Cat. 138 (1893), n. 52; sold (14 March 1895) by Quaritch to H. Yates Thompson; his sale (London, 1920, n. 43) to Tregaskis, Cat. 850 (Jan. 1922), n. 17 and 871 (June 1923), n. 15, facs., from whom it was obtained in 1924 by the present owner. -- Cf. M. R. James, A descriptive cat. of 50 mss. from the coll. of H.Y. Thompson, 1898, pp. 138-140, n. 29; H. Y. Thompson, Illustrations from one hundred MSS., IV (1914), pl. LXXIII-LXXIV. (de Ricci 1935, p. 622)
ProvenanceInscribed at foot of fol. 1r, "Sum Liber Johannis Hunt ex dono Mariae Lussher 1.5.8.5", doubtless John Hunt (c. 1560-1612), of Gaydon, Staffordshire, etc., given to him in 1585 by Mary Lusher (c. 1564-1634, daughter of Nicholas Lusher, of Shooland in Putterham, Surrey), whom he had married in 1582; by descent to their daughter Bridget, who in 1633 married George Starkey (d. 1679); and to Bridget's daughter Elizabeth, who in 1690 married Richard Sanders (d. 1723)--all of whom appear in the genealogical notes added in the margins of fols. 103v-109v; sale at Sotheby's, 6 August 1878, lot 1440 (among 'other properties'), to Quaritch (his General Catalogue, 1880, no. 8575; cat. 332, 1880, no. 41; General Catalogue VIII, 1884, no. 17397; and cat. 369, 1886, no. 35668); Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), bought from Quaritch, 14 March 1895, with his bookplate, his no. 29; his sale, Sotheby's, 23 March 1920, lot 43, to Tregaskis (his cat. 850, 1922, no. 17, and cat. 871, 1923, no. 15); C. L. Ricketts. (de Hamel 2010, n. 57, pp. 126-127)
Obtained from E. von Scherling, Cat. 10 (1929), n. 868 (cf. ibid., n. 867, the description of 4 other ff. of the same ms.).
Physical Description: Parchment, 246 leaves, 110 mm. by 72 mm., collation: i 13 [apparently, presumably of 14, i cancelled], ii 7 [of 8, lacking i, before fol. 14], iii-viii 8 , ix 7 [of 8, lacking viii, after fol. 74], x-xix 8 , xx 7 [of 8, lacking vii, after fol. 161], xxi-xxx 8 , xxxi 4 [perhaps of 8, lacking all after iv], with horizontal catchwords and contemporary leaf signatures; ruled apparently in ink, 18 lines, written-space 62 mm. by 42 mm.; written in dark brown ink in a small textura, headings and Latin key words in red, versal capitals in alternating red and blue; 2-line psalm initials in blue with red penwork; sixteen illuminated initials (mostly 5- or 6-line) with three-quarter illuminated borders, on fols. 42r (psalm 26), 60v (psalm 38), 77v (psalm 52), 96v (psalm 68), 120r (psalm 80), 140v (psalm 97, initial for psalm 109 lacking but offsets on fol. 162r), 205v (canticles, mostly torn away), 225v (Matins), 229r (Lauds), 233v (Prime), 235r (Terce), 236v (Sext), 237v (None), 239v (Vespers), 241v (Compline) and 243v (Penitential Psalms); much used and very worn, many edges defective from damp; pages at end almost illegible where the acidic ink has eaten through the parchment (mostly now patched); bound c. 1900 in black morocco by Riviere & Son, parchment endleaves; in a brown cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 58, p. 128)
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500) .
Scope and Contents: A table of roman numerals with their arabic equivalents, running from 1 to 1,000,000,000, ff.1r-2r; a calendar for the period 1425-1488 giving dominical letters for leap and ordinary years, "golden" numbers of the cycle of lunar years, and the dates for Easter, ff.2v-3r; table of days in the months with equivalent lunar days (correction strip of vellum missing), f.3v; "table of signes of the moone" for the cycle of 19 lunar years, with signs of the Zodiac, f.4r; Kalendar, ff.4v-13r; blank, f.13v; psalms (wanting 1:1-2:3; 49:9-22; 108:21-109:3), ff.14r-205v (f.205 imperfect); canticles, ff.205v-225v; Hours of the Virgin, ff.225v-243v; incipits for the seven penitential psalms, ff.243v-244r; incipits for the "15 psalms", ff.244r-244v; litany (incomplete and much damaged), ff.244v-246v.
ProvenanceGeorge C. Thomas sale (Philadelphia, 18 Nov. 1924, n. 205). (de Ricci 1935, p. 623)
ProvenanceSignature "Ann Money" on fol. 84r, probably eighteenth-century; George C. Thomas (1839-1909), banker and picture collector; his sale, Philadelphia, 18 November 1924, lot 205; C. L. Ricketts. (de Hamel 2010, n. 58, p. 128)
Obtained in London in 1916 (n. 777 in a catalogue).
Obtained in 1929 from Belmore, Rome.
Presented in 1913 by J. W. Bradley (who owned 30 other initials from the same book).
Obtained from Tregaskis, Cat. 780 (1916), n. 4.
Physical Description: 34 leaves only (for the period of the Church year, St Zeno--23rd Sunday after Pentecost, including week day offices [approximatley 8th December--late October], with gaps). 23 lines to the page. On vellum, 26 x 18 cm. A very few marginal scribblings and pen trials imitating words from the text. Modern foliation in pencil, 1-34, but the original numbering system for the complete manuscript in roman numberals in ink is still visible at the head of each leaf. The 3 complete gatherings which survive are of 8 leaves each. Tituli and lection initials in red. Disbound. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Scope and Contents:
Obtained in 1907 from Saffroy Frères, Le Pré Saint-Gervais.
Obtained in 1910 from Hill and Son, London.
Physical Description: In roman and italic characters, with headings in roman and italic capitals; music on f.7. 52 leaves. 23 lines to the page. On vellum, 37 x 25 cm. Modern foliation in pencil. 26 bifolia. 50 miniatures in colours and gold, mostly framed in cartouches of scrollwork and flowers at the head of each lection; 50 illuminated initials in floriated rectangles, a few historiated; 45 elaborate tail-pieces, mostly of flowers and fruit, but a few emblematic or historiated, a number are full-page. Each group of miniature, initial and tail-piece is most carefully balanced in colouring, and the same flower or scroll motif is often carried out through each. Each page is surrounded by a plain gold fillet border edged with maroon or brown, and the tituli are in gold (outlined in maroon ink), red, and blue. Bound in modern red velvet with two silk ties; vellum end-leaves; edges gilt. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Scope and Contents:
Robert Hoe coll. (Cat., 1909, p. 185; sale (New York, 1911, I, n. 2126) to G. D. Smith. (de Ricci 1935, p. 624)
Provenance(i) Church of Notre Dame at Versailles; (ii) Robert Hoe (book label) Catalogue of manuscripts, 1909, p. 185; sale New York, 1911, I, no. 2126 to (iii) G.D. Smith.
Both the Hoe catalogue and the Hoe sale catalogue suggest an artist of the school of Jarry, but De Ricci, possibly misled by some description by G.D. Smith, states clearly "certainly by Nicholas Jarry." The ascription to Jarry cannot hold, as he died in 1674 and the church of Notre Dame at Versailles was not dedicated until October 30, 1686; J.H. Mansart commenced to build it in 1684. An earlier church was demolished in 1678, but the new structure was partially devoted to the Mission of Lazarists, which would possibly account for the presence of St. Charles Borromeo, one of only three lesser saints memorialised in the volume. (See Pierre Bourget: Jules Hardouin Mansart. Paris, 1956, p. 157, etc.) The style of the painting is not consistent with signed specimens of Jarry's work in the Lilly Library. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Obtained in 1925 from Baer (n. 41 in a cat.)
Obtained in 1925 from Baer (n. 2 in a cat.).
Obtained in March 1915 from P. M. Barnard.
Obtained in 1926 from Quaritch. -- Two other ff. of this beautiful ms. belong to Sir Frederic Kenyon; two others to Mr. Ricketts' son-in-law, Mr. Jasper Seymour King; a similar leaf (from this ms.?) has been described supra, as belonging to Mrs. Millard, at Pasadena, Cal. Several others have belonged to Mssrs. Quaritch.
Physical Description: Gothic script. 396 leaves only. 2 columns, 26 lines to the page. On vellum, 24 x 17 cm. Wanting at least one gathering plus three leaves at the beginning (Advent-Easter); leaf between f.177 and f.178; and at least one gathering at the end (December 11-24 of the Proprium de Sanctis, and possibly other sections of the normal Breviary). Modern foliation in pencil at every tenth leaf and at the beginning of each gathering. 40 gatherings, all of 10 leaves (first gathering wants initial 3 leaves; gathering containing ff.178-186 wants first leaf); ff.101, 104, 121, 124, 141, 144, 280, 283, 290, 293, 319, 324 are disjunct. Quire catch-words; first 5 surviving quires not signed, remainder signed a-e, a-f, a-g, a-h. Numerous plain initials painted in red or violet with violet or red penwork decoration respectively. A more elaborate divided initial, with bracket motif in red and violet, and with an extension forming a column divider and decorating the upper and lower margins, on f.1r. Initials for the special saints in the Proprium de Sanctis are also divided and bracketed using both colours; they are larger than the normal plain initials. Rubrics and tituli in red, but a few liturgical rubrics are in black framed in red rules. The instructions for the rubricator are still visible in places, and he has not always completed his work. Bound in brown goatskin tooled in mudejar style in blind over bevelled beechen boards; clasp sites and catches for two clasps which hinged on the lower cover; portion of a chain staple remains rivetted to the centre of the lower edge of the same cover, which also has pasted at the top a vellum title label with the word 'breviarium.' Early 15th-century, Spanish. The tools of the outer and inner borders, and the diaper of four-painted stars filling the central lozenges outlined by strapwork, are as those on the binding illustrated on plate XXXIV of Henry Thomas: Early Spanish bookbindings. Thomas groups this indefinitely with the Salamanca school, but a vellum lease in Spanish used as paste-downs on the present binding is dated from the abbey of Cordova; also, many of the saints and martyrs honoured in the Proprium de Sanctis are of Cordovan or Andalucian origin. It is probable that the portion missing from the beginning of the Breviary was already absent when this binding was put on; the thongs pass tightly into teh front board and would not allow for an additional gathering. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Scope and Contents: Proprium de Sanctis, beginning with St. Stephen (December 26) and ending with St. Eulalia (December 10), ff.93r-396v.
ProvenanceBelonged to G. A. Baker; sale by Anderson (New York, 1 Apr. 1919, n. 159) to C. L. Ricketts.
Obtained in 1912 from Tregaskis.
Physical Description: Parchment, 33 leaves, 197 mm. by 125 mm., a fragment of a much larger manuscript, 2 columns, ruled in red ink, 32 lines, each column 145 mm. by 37 mm. with 6 mm. between columns; written in dark brown ink in a small liturgical textura, extensive rubrics in red, versal initals in alternating blue with red penwork and burnished gold with red or pale blue penwork; 2- to 3-line initials throughout in burnished gold on red and blue panel grounds with white tracery; traces of different sequences of old folio numbers in ink and in pencil (now mostly erased); bound in black morocco. (de Hamel 2010, n. 41, p. 90)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceObtained from Leighton, Cat. of mss. [1912], n. 49. (de Ricci 1935, pp. 621 and 625)
ProvenanceThe Benedictine abbey of Saint Peter, Chertsey, Surrey (see below); C.L. Ricketts, who bought 27 leaves from Leighton, Catalogue of Manuscripts, 1912, no. 49 (now Ricketts MS 47) and 6 further leaves from Tregaskis (now Ricketts MS 23). (de Hamel 2010, n. 41, p. 90)
Related Materials: See also Ricketts 23.
Physical Description: Gothic script. 237 leaves (of 238?). 28 lines to the page. On vellum, 11 x 8 cm. Modern foliation in pencil at the beginning of each gathering. 28 gatherings: of 8 leaves, ff.1-32; of 10, ff.33-42; of 8, ff.43-50; of 10, ff.51-70; of 8, ff.71-118; of 10, ff.119-128; of 10, ff.129-137 (but last leaf excised, without loss of text); of 8, ff.138-161; of 8, ff.162-167 (but first and sixth leaves excised, without loss of text); of 8, ff.168-175; of 10, ff.176-184 (but seventh leaf excised, without loss of text); of 10, ff.185-193 (but ninth leaf excised, without loss of text); of 10, ff.194-203; of 8, ff.204-211; of 10, ff.212-220 (but first leaf excised, without loss of text); of 8, ff.221-228, of 10, ff.229-237 (but wanting final leaf). 36 large initials painted in red or blue, all with most delicate marginal penwork decoration in blue/or lilac, and red, infilled with very fine penwork floriation in the complementary colour, the motifs being rosettes, acanthus leaves and bell-shaped flowers; most of these initials are 'panelled' in the body, the designs in the self colour of the vellum being a quatrefoil and S-scrolls; two of these large initials (Psalm 1 and the opening of the Proprium de Tempore) are 'divided' in blue and red and employ green to block in the background of the infilling. 126 other small initials in the same style, but none panelled. Numerous plain initials and line turn-over brackets in red or blue. Tituli and rubrics in red. Vellum faults decorated with foliage and scrollwork. Bound in calf (rubbed) over bevelled wooden boards; outer and innter frame of double and triple fillets respectively, mitred at the corners, the central panels having a fleur-de-lys pointing inwards at each corner; two brass catches for clasps which hinged on the lower cover; paper end-leaves at front, vellum and paper end-leaves at back; index knobs of knotted thread. Mid-17th century ?, Dutch ? (end-leaves have watermark of the arms of the Seven Provinces). (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Scope and Contents: Psalms 1-148 with versicles and responses for the week-day hours, ff.1r-83v; Litany, ff.83v-86v; Office of the dead, ff.86v-94v; hymns for the liturgical year, ff.95r-109v; Proprium de Tempore, ff.110r-182v; Proprium de Sanctis, ff.182v-225r; Commune Sanctorum, ff.225r-263v; Office for St Monica (in a different hand), ff.236v-237v.
ProvenanceObtained from Leighton, Cat. of mss. [1912], n. 47, facs.
Obtained in 1926 from Ludwig Rosenthal.
Physical Description: 1499 (dated on f.174v). Written in southern Bavaria. Gothic script. 176 leaves. 21 lines to the page. On thick vellum, 18 x 14 cm. Inscription on front vellum paste-down, "Das puch gehort in das Clost", with an erased ownership statement. Modern foliation in pencil at the beginning of each gathering. 19 gatherings: of 6 leaves, ff.1-6; of 10, ff.7-76; of 8, ff.77-84; of 10, ff.85-94; of 8, ff.95-102; of 10, ff.103-142; of 8, ff.143-150; of 10, ff.151-170; of 6, ff.171-176. Quire catch-words (except for gatherings ending on f.102v); traces of signatures in arabic numerals. F.7r has a large inital E in blue (overlaid with acanthus leaf decoration modelled in white and light blue) on a ground of burnished gold impressed with a diaper of circles and quatrefoils, within a frame of moulding in eight alternating segments of red and green. From teh base of the frame an illuminated foliate and floriated border extends round the inner, top, and bottom margins, the flowers being a columbine, a pink and an aroid, and the colours blue, pink, green, scarlet, dark red, buff, and grey. Kaldendar in red, blue, and black; tituli and rubrics painted in red; numerous plain and flourished initials in red and blue. Bound in calf (rubbed) over beechen boards, the upper cover with borders of square tools of the four signs of the Evangelists framing two parallel panels which each contain four impressions of a diamond-shaped tool showing the Virgin and Child supported on a crescent moon; the lower cover is diapered with diamond-shaped tools of a double fleur-de-lys, an eagle passant with wings outstretched, and a lion with plumed tail passant. The tools are all very finely cut and the entire pattern of both covers and spine is outlined with punched dots. Two brass catches on the upper cover; vellum half end-leaves; triple head-bands woven in red, green, and black silk; edges painted yellow. Contemporary with manuscript, German (?). (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Scope and Contents: Kalendar, ff.1r-6v; Proprium de Tempore (Advent to Easter only), ff.7r-68r; Lord's prayer, f.68r; Ave Maria, f.68r; Credo, f.68v; diurnal Offices, ff.68v-102r; various prayers and antiphons, ff.102r-103r; Proprium de Sanctis (Nov. 27-Vitalis and Agricola-through April 5-St. Vincent Ferrer), ff.103r-148r; Office "in invencione S. Stephani", ff.148r-150r; Commune sanctorum, ff.150r-159v; Commemoration of the B.V.M., ff.159v-162r; Office for St Dominic, ff.162-164v; patrons (Thomas Aquinas, Vincent Ferrer and Catherine of Siena), ff.164v-165r; miscellaneous prayers, ff.165r-167v; Cursus Beate Virginis Marie, ff.167v-174v; blank, ff.175-176.
ProvenanceOwned ca. 1600 by a Dominican, Franciscus Linckh; sale by Scott (New York, 26 March 1918, n. 306). (de Ricci 1935, p. 625)
Provenance(i) A Dominican foundation of southern Bavaria possibly dedicated to St Vincent Ferrer (the Kalendar contains many saints associated wiht Augsburg and Ratisbon and there is a special Office for St. Dominic, and emphasis on St. Vincent); (ii) Franciscus Linkh, a Dominican friar, ca. 1750 (inscription on f.1r); (iii) sale by Scott, New York (March 26, 1918), n. 306. Acquired by C.L. Ricketts in 1930 (?). (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Physical Description: Parchment, 2 volumes, 69 and 116 leaves (185 altogether), 158 mm. by 110 mm., collation: volume 1: i 10 [first originally blank], ii 4 [of 8, i-iv in volume 2], iii-vi 8 , vii 7 [of 8, lacking i, before fol. 47], viii-ix 8 , volume 2: i-xiv 8 , xv 4 [of 8, v-viii in volume 1], with a few tiny traces of catchwords; ruled in black, apparently in ink, 28 lines, written-space 100 mm. by 62 mm.; written in a neat hybrid semi-cursive liturgical hand with some very fine calligraphic cadels and flourishes in upper and lower margins, rubrics in red; 2-line illuminated initials throughout (1157 of them, according to Ricketts' counting) in leafy designs in colours and burnished gold with very fine sprays of coloured leaves scrolling and twirling into the margins; a 10-line illuminated initial on fol. 1r of volume 2; two historiated initials, both 10 lines high, showing Saint Andrew (volume 1, fol. 11r) and Saints Peter and Paul (volume 1, fol. 50r); some sixteenth-century marginal notes; bound in old (perhaps early nineteenth-century) parchment over pasteboards; in a brown cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 92, p. 200) 2 historiated and illuminated foliate initials: Vol. 1, f.11r, St. Andrew, in a blue and gray robe with green lining, stands before a red backdrop; with his left hand he supports a saltire cross and in his right he holds a book from which he is reading; Vol. 1, f.50r, St. Peter, in papal tiara and a blue robe lined with orange, holds in his left hand an archbishop's three-barred cross; St. Paul, in a rose robe lined with green, supports a reversed sword with his right hand. One large illuminated floriate initial in lavender, infilled with buff foliage on a black ground, Vol. 2, f.1r. 874 small foliate initials on burnished gold grounds (Vol. 1, 278; Vol. 2, 596); most have curling interlaces of foliage, reminiscent of ironwork, as marginal extensions, and some wild flowers in these extensions (e.g., forget-me-nots, nightshade, poppies and poppyseed heads, rose hips, etc.); the infilling is foliate or floriated and in a colour contrasting with the body of each initial. The principal colours throughout are green, blue, rose, lavender, orange, rust, yellow, wine, gray and powdered gold. Tituli and rubrics in red. The letters of the top and bottom lines of some pages have elaborate marginal extensions, some like paraphs or calligraphic flourishes, and all again reminiscent of ironwork. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Language: Latin .
Scope and Contents: Vol. 1, later notes as above, f.1r; blank, f.1v; Kalendar, ff.2r-7v; chronological index and general index to lesser Offices, ff.8r-10v; Proprium de Sanctis (Santurninus through Urban, Nov. 29-May 25 only; probably a small gathering missing after f.46), ff.11r-46v; In dedicatione ecclesie, ff.47r-49v; Commune sanctorum, ff.50r-65v; De commemoracione beate virginis, ff.65v-67v; Cursus beate virginis, ff.67v-69r. Vol. 2, Proprium de Tempore, ff.1r-116v.
It is vry likely that, when this Diurnale was rebound in the 19th century, the sections were rearranged in a different order. The indexes indicate the order Proprium de Tempore, Proprium de Sanctis, Commune sanctorum, etc. (the normal order). The two gatherings of 4 disjunct leaves in each of the present volumes were probably a single gathering of 8 before the rebinding, and the Kalendar has been bound into the wrong volume.
ProvenanceBelonged (1876) to E. J. H...gs (in Germany); Henry Willett sale (London, 5 July 1905, n. 15) to Parsons. -- Obtained in 1913 from E. Parsons (Cat., 1906 [?], n. 376; also Cat. 261, 1907, n. 455).
ProvenancePhilipps von der Pflaz (1480-1541), prince bishop of Freising 1507-41, and presumably bequeathed by him to the Benedictine cathedral church of the Virgin Mary and Saint Corbinianus, Freising, founded in 1020 and suppressed in 1802; Henry Willett (1823-1905); his sale, Sotheby's, 5 July 1905, lot 15, to E. Parsons; Parsons cat. 261 (1907), no. 455; C. L. Ricketts. (de Hamel 2010, n. 92, p. 200)
Obtained in 1910 from Saffroy Frères, Le Pré Saint-Gervais.
Obtained from Tregaskis, Cat. 780 (1916), n. 12.
Obtained from E. von Scherling, Cat. 10 (1929), n. 861.
Obtained from E. von Scherling, Cat. 10 (1929), n. 862.
Obtained in 1928 from Ludwig Rosenthal.
Obtained in 1928 from Ludwig Rosenthal.
Obtained in 1929 from E. Weyhe, New York.
Obtained in 1928 from E. Weyhe, New York.
Physical Description: Parchment, 281 leaves (4 blank), 190 mm. by 131 mm., collation: i 8 [i and viii blank, foliation omits first leaf], ii-xii 10 , xiii 10 [apparently of 10+1, a single-sheet Canon miniature now lacking after fol. 122], xiv-xxvi 10 , xxvii 9 [of 10, x cancelled and replaced in the fifteenth century with what are now fols. 266-81], xxviii 6 , xxix 8 , with horizontal catchwords, some within decorative penwork cartouches or radiating penwork; pencil foliation (followed here) repeats '83'; 2 columns, ruled apparently in ink, 30 lines, each column 120 mm. by 40 mm. with 9 mm. between columns; written in dark brown and red in two sizes of a rounded gothic textura, some pages of music on a 3-line red stave; one- and 2-line initials throughout in burnished gold with delicate and elegant penwork in blue or purple; fifty-two historiated initials, mostly 6 lines high, with lush leafy marginal extensions and gold bezants, mostly showing saints or simplified biblical scenes on fols. 8r (two initials, with full border of coloured and gold petals on hairline stems and with a historiated cartouche in lower margin), 17r, 23r, 80r, 84r, 89r, 96r, 107r, 123r, 127r, 138r, 141v, 148v, 171v (two), 172v, 173r, 176r, 179r, 181r, 182v, 184v, 187v, 190r, 192v, 193v, 196v, 197r, 198r, 200v, 202r, 204r, 206r, 207v, 209r, 210r, 212r, 213r, 214r, 217r, 217v, 218v, 221r, 224r, 226r, 231r, 235v, 237r, 240r, 242v and 265v; a stained rectangle (105 mm. by 91 mm.) above the opening of the Canon on fol. 120r where a miniature has once been pasted and now removed; bound in nineteenth-century Italian calf gilt, spine title-labels in red and green morocco including initials 'CC', red marbled endleaves, gilt edges; in a blue cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 50, p. 112-113)
Language: Latin .
Scope and Contents: Ownership inscription, f.ir; blank, f.1v; Kalendar, ff.1r-6v; blank, f.7; Proprium de Tempore, Advent to Easter, ff.8r-116v; Ordinarium Missae, ff.116v-122v; Canon Missae, ff.123r-127r; Proprium de Tempore, Easter to Advent, ff.127r-171r; Proprium de Sanctis, ff.171v-216v; Commune sanctorum, ff.216v-239v; In anniversarie dedicationis ecclesie, ff.240r-241r; votive Masses, beginning with the Trinity Masses for the dead, ff.241-264r; Benedictio salis et aque, ff.264r-265r; further votive Masses, beginning with the Visitation of the B.V.M., ff.265v-276v; blessings, ff.276v-278r; blank, ff.278v-279v.
f.1r has an illuminated ornamental border and column divider of straight gold bars, outlined with blue and decorated with hairline racemes of golden, red, green and blue flowerets and leaves. Strung on the border bars are cup-shaped curled leaves like beads; the bar of hte top margin is irregularly broken; in the centre of the bar of the bottom margin is set a barbed quatrefoil of burnished gold, bearing on a blue shield a miniature of St. Lucy holding in her hands a palm frond and a lamp. 55 other historiated, foliate and illuminated initials on burnished golden grounds, with marginal extensions of large curling leaves and golden disks; the infilling ground of each initial is in deep blue. The other principal colours used throughout are green, rose, red, rust, brown and painting in grisaille. Numerous plain initials and paragraph marks in gold with extended penwork decoration in light blue and purple, the most frequent motif being a spiral with blue penwork decoration to the plain gold initials.
Given (25 Jan. 1881) by John Ruskin to his secretary Laurence J. Hilliard; William K. Bixby sale (New York, 29 March 1916, n. 743) to G. Wells. -- Obtained (1924) from the estate of G. D. Smith. (de Ricci 1935, p. 627)
ProvenanceWilliam Bragge (1823-1884); his sale, Sotheby's, 7 June 1876, lot 237, to Quaritch (his cat. 31, June 1876, no. 87); John Ruskin (1819-1900), inscribed by him to Lawrence Hilliard, Brantwood, 25 January 1881; William K. Bixby (1857-1931); his sale, Anderson, New York, 29 March 1916, lot 743, to Gabriel Wells; bought by C. L. Ricketts in 1924 from the estate of the bookseller George D. Smith (d. 1920). (de Hamel 2010, n. 50, p. 112-113)
Obtained in 1911 from Hiersemann.
Physical Description: Parchment, 4 disbound leaves, 350 mm. by 257 mm., 2 columns, ruled apparently in pale brown ink, 32 lines, each column 237 mm. by 74 mm., with 21 mm. between columns; written in brown ink in a neat gothic liturgical textualis, headings in red, original folio numbers (in roman numerals) and versal capitals in alternating blue with ren penwork and burnished gold with dark blue penwork; 2- to 4-line initials in gothic leafy designs in colours and burnished gold on panelled grounds, with full ivyleaf bar borders, including dragons; five column-width miniatures, 10 lines high, showing the Crucifixion (original fol. 100v), the Nativity of the Virgin (original fol. 100v), the Nativity of the Virgin (original fol. 45r), Saint Helen finding the True Cross Ioriginal fol. 45v), Saint Michael vanquishing the Devil (original fol. 49r) and the martyrdom of Saint Andrew (original fol. 57r); some wear. (de Hamel 2010, n. 51, p. 114)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceFrom Rouen. -- Obtained from Lemallier (1907). (de Ricci 1935, p. 627)
ProvenanceÉtienne de Loypeau, bishop of Loypeau, bishop of Luçon 1388-1407; Louis d'Harcourt, patriarch of Jerusalem and bishop of Bayeaux 1460-79, who on 12 April 1474 gave it to the cathedral of Bayeaux; recorded in the inventory of the cathedral treasury in 1476, "Premièrement, ung excellent missel, portant tout l'office pontifical..." (Delisle 1887, p. 434); leaves (including those here) were lost by at least 1887; these leaves were bought by C. L. Ricketts in Paris from Lemallier, 1907. (de Hamel 2010, n. 51, p. 114)
Given in 1918 by Oliver R. Barrett.
Obtained in 1926 from Quaritch. -- Antoher leaf from this ms. is in the Jasper Seymour King collection.
Obtained from Tregaskis, Cat. 850 (January 1922), n. 41.
Obtained from E. von Scherling, Cat. 10 (1930), n. 901.
Obtained from E. von Scherling, Cat. 11 (1930), n. 982 (cf. ibid, n. 981, another leaf from the same ms.).
Physical Description: Gothic script. 294 leaves. 2 columns, 30 lines to the page. On vellum, 23 x 17 cm. One or two marginal notes and corrections, an addition to the Kalendar, and two prayers written in on blank leaves in 16th- and 17th-century hands. Square note musical notation on red four-line staves, ff.Ir-VIIIv. Modern foliation in pencil, 1-6 (Kalendar); original foliation in red ink at head of each leaf, i-xxxix, xxxixix-cviii[cix-cxi]; modern foliation in pencil, cxiii-cclxvii[cclxviii]. 38 gatherings: of 6 leaves, ff.1-6; of 8, ff.i-xxxii; of 9, ff.xxxiii-xxxix, xxxixbis-xl (xxxixbis is a single inserted leaf); of 8, ff.xli-civ; of 8, ff.cv-[cxi] (but final blank excised); of 8, ff.I-VIII; of 6, ff.IX-XIV; of 8, ff.XV-XX (but final 2 blanks excised); of 8, ff.cxiii-cclxiv; of 6, ff.cclxv-[cclxviii] (but final 2 blanks excised). The Kalendar is unsigned, but the remainder of the text has signatures running a-o [A-C], r-z, A-N; quire catchwords are vertical in the inside margin and in a semi-bastarda. Leaves [cix-cxi] are in on stubs, and the presence of off-sets on them indicates that they were possibly once placed elsewhere. 13 pages with full foliate and floriated illuminated borders within red ruled frames edged with gold; penwork racemes with small gold disks form the column dividers. The background of the borders consists of a network of fine curling penwork stems with tiny golden leaves of ivy and kidney shape; superimposed on this ground are large branching scrolls of foliage in blue and powdered gold and numerous delicately painted rising stems of flowers and fruits--cornflowers, daisies, strawberries, raspberries, pansies, petunias, thistles, campanula, violets, blackberries, red currants, St. John's wort, roses, lobelia, clover, etc. A few of the borders contain small brown birds and 4 have in the centre at the bottom a blue shield bearing the initials G M, in gold, linked by a red cordeliere; flanking the shield are scrolls with the words "grace attendent". 6 other pages with "half-borders" in the same style, surrounding only one column, or in top and bottom margins only. On each of the border pages is a foliate initial in light blue, on a powdered gold ground and infilled with flowers and fruits in the same style; a few of these initials are in a darker blue on a burnished ground and the infilling is of a pattern more usually associated with the 13th and 14th centuries. (The bordered pages are placed as follows: f.ir-Advent, f.xir-Christmas, f.lxxviiir-Palm Sunday, f.civ-Holy Saturday [Preconium], f. XVr-Prefaces, f.cxiii r-Easter Sunday, f.cxxix r-Saturday on the eve of Pentecost, f.cxxx v-Pentecost, f.cxxxviii r-Trinity Sunday, f.cxxxix r-Trinity, f.clxv r-Proprium de Sanctis, f.clxxvi v-Purification of the B.V.M., f.clxxx r-Annunciation of the B.V.M., f.cxcii r-John the Baptist, f.cxcv v-Sts. Peter and Paul, f.ccxxi v-All Saints, f.ccxxxv r-Commune sanctorum, f.ccxlv r-Ad memoriam B.V.M., f.cclxi v-Benedictio salis). Numerous plain initials painted in red or blue, with blue or red penwork decoration respectively; Kalendar in red, black and blue; tituli and rubrics in red. Bound in blind-tooled and stamped purple morocco, with a diaper of flowerets within central panels outlined by a border of a ragged staff; gilt edges. Binder's monogram R C stamped on verso of front free end-paper; modern, English.
Scope and Contents: Kalendar, ff.1r-6v; Proprium de Tempore (Advent to Easter), ff.i-cviii v; Oratio ante Missam dicenda (in a 17th-century hand), f.[cix]r; blank, ff.[cix]v-[cxi]v; Prefaces with music, ff.Ir-VIIIv; Ordinary of the Mass, ff.IXr-XVv; Canon of the Mass, ff.XVv-XXv; Proprium de Tempore (Easter to Advent), ff.cxiii r-clxiv v; Proprium de Sanctis, ff.clxv r-ccxxviii v; votive Masses, ff.ccxxix r-ccxxxiv r; Commune sanctorum, ff.ccxxxv r-ccliv r; votive Masses (B.V.M., Holy Cross), ff.cclv r-cclix v; marriage service, ff.cclix v-cclxi r; benedictions, ff.cclxi r-cclxii v; antiphons and sequences, ff.cclxiii r-cclxvi r; Missa beatissime virginis Marie de pietate, f.cclxvii; prayer to the B.V.M. (in a 17th-century book hand), f.[cclxviii]r; blank but for device of steppedwoven cross with nails, f.[cclxviii]v.
ProvenanceInitials of first owners : GM, with the motto : grace attenden. -- Obtained in Jan. 1917 from W. M. Voynich.
Obtained in 1918 from Tregaskis.
Physical Description: Parchment, 366 leaves, 328 mm. by 231 mm., collation: early flyleaf + i-ii 4 [both added c. 1500], iii 6+1 [last leaf added], iv 10 , v 9 [of 10, lacking iv, once foliated 'xiv'], vi-xvi 10 , xvii 9 [of 10, lacking iv, once foliated 'cxxxiv'], xviii-xxii 10 , xxiii 13 [text complete but perhaps of 14, with a blank leaf cancelled after 'cxci'], xxiv 10 , xxv 2 , xxvi-xxxiv 10 , xxxv 9 [of 10, lacking ix, once foliated 'cccxiv'], xxxvi-xxxviii 10 , xxxix 9 [of 10, blank x cancelled at end], with horizontal catchwords; medieval foliation (followed here) runs 'i'-'ccliv' (lacking 3 leaves but + 15 unfoliated leaves at the beginning = 366); faint ruling in black, apparently in plummet, 2 columns, 30 lines, each column 222 mm. by 61 mm. with 21 mm. between columns; written in brown ink in a rounded liturgical textura, rubrics in red; 2-line initials throughout in alternating blue with red penwork and red with purple penwork; many (Ricketts counted 68) large illuminated initials with full-length bar borders sprouting into elaborate sprays of coloured and gold foliage in the upper and lower margins; three historiated initials, showing Pentecost (fol. cliv verso, 5-line), the Crucifixion (fol. ccvi verso, 6-line) and Saint Stephen (fol. cclvi verso, 4-line); bound in late seventeenth-century red morocco, gilt edges, spine gilt, marbled pastedowns, paper flyleaves; in a blue-grey cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 68, p. 152)
Physical Description: 68 of an original 71 pages with illuminated foliate borders forming 1/2 or 3/4 marginal extensions (or column dividers) to initials; branching scrolls of acanthus foliage in blue, green, rose, scarlet and buff, with grain heads, catkins and flower terminals, sprout from gold bars edged with colours; the underlying ground is of racemes terminated with small gold disk "flowers", each with three coloured "petals." A few borders are inhabited by naked men, birds, and two-legged animal grotesques. The initials on these pages are on burnished gold grounds with impressed patterns of dots and are in blue and/or rose with ornamental panels in fine white penwork; the infilling is foliate and floriated. (The ordinary bordered leaves are placed as follows: ff.i, ii, iii, iiii, ix, x, xi, xiii, xviii, xxi, xxiiii, xxv, xxvi v, xxviiii v, xlii v, li v, lxi, lxxi, lxxxiii v, lxxxiv v, xci, xcv v, cv v, cxlix, clxii v, clxiv, cxcviii v, ccviii, ccxv, ccxxviii, cclvii v, cclviii, cclxi v, cclxiii v, cclxix, cclxxiiii, cclxxv v, cclxxvi v, cclxxviii, cclxxx v, cclxxxii, cclxxxiii v, cclxxxiiii, ccxcii, ccxciiii, ccxcv, ccxcvi, ccci, ccciiii v, cccviii, cccix, cccxii, cccxxiii, cccxxvii v, cccxxix, cccxxxiii v, cccxxxv, cccxxxviii v, cccxli, cccxlvi v, cccxlviii, cccxlix v, cccli v, cccliii. The Pentecost page (f.cliv v) has a complete border outside a continuous gold bar frame which surrounds the text (there is also a column divider in the style of the rest of the volume); from the frame sprout 10 regularly spaced roundels of formalised foliage, the centre space of each being painted with a delicately coloured bird, flower or grotesque animal surrounded by a golden ground; the continuous background of the border consists of a fine lace-like band of the same gold disk "flowers" mentioned above and spirals of hairline stems with flower terminals; in the lower border a naked huntsman aims his bow at small brown birds sitting among the flowers; the inhabitants of the other three sides of the border are climbing naked men, birds, a grotesque with a human head, a green wyvern, a white dog, and several two-legged animal grotesques clearly related to the dromedary, one of which wears a blue jerking and carries a club on its shoulder; the initial is historiated, showing the Apostles kneeling round the B.V.M., their hands clasped as they look heavenward to the branching flame of the Holy Spirit--the Virgin has eyes downcast. The Canon Missae page (f.ccvi v) has an historiated initial of the Crucifixion in a rocky landscape with pyramidal trees; Mary and St. John (?) flank the two-barred cross. The opening page of the Proprium de Sanctis (f.cclvii v) has a complete border, divided from text on left and right only by blue and gold bars; there is a knotted blue and gold column divider strung with bead-like floral "cups"; the components of the border are as for the general description of the other borders in the volume, but the inhabitants include a finely painted peacock with tail hanging down, two-legged animal grotesques, coloured birds, and a wyvern with wings folded; the initial is historiated, showing St. Stephen as a deacon, carrying a green book under his left arm and giving benedcition with his right hand--the background is diagonally chequered in gold and wine. Numerous plain red or blue initials with violet or red penwork decoration respectively. Red tituli; rubrics underlined with red ink; "rubricated" in yellow. Kalendar in red, black, blue and violet. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Language: Latin , Spanish; Castilian .
Scope and Contents: Blank, f.1, Missa pro gratiarum actione, Missa pro beati Bernardini confessoris, f.2r; blank, f.2v; marriage service (rubrics in Spanish), ff.3r-8r; prayers for before and after Mass, ff.8v-9r; blank, f.9v; Kalendar (March 11 given as the anniversary of the founding of "ecclesie hispalensis"), ff.10r-15r; calendar wheel of the principal movable feasts for the period 1448-1488 (the central volvelle for indicating each coming year is missing; the instructions are in Spanish), f. 16r; blank, f.16v; Benedictiones salis et panis, ff.ir-iir; Proprium de Tempore, ff.ii r-cxci r; blank, f.cxci v; Ordinary of the Mass, ff.cxcii r-ccvi v; Canon of the Mass, ff.ccvi v-ccxi r; the common preface, and special prefaces (without music), ff.ccxi r-ccxiiii r; proses (Ascension, Corpus Christi) in a different hand of the same period, f.ccxiiii r & v; Commune sanctorum, ff.ccxv r-ccxxvi r; votive Masses, ff.ccxxvi r-ccxxviii r; In commemoratione, etc., B.V.M., ff.cxxviii r-ccxxxii r; Officium defunctorum, ff.ccxxxii r-ccxxxiiii r; votive Masses, etc., ff.ccxxxiiii r-ccl v; prayers, ff.ccl v-cclii v; Special Offices for reception of prelates and kings, for sending out a bishop on his visitation, and "ad reconciliandum ecclesiam non consecratam", blessings for implements of war, ff.cclii v-cclv r; Doctrina de clausulis que debent dici in missa per totum annum, Doctrina de festivitatibus in quibus debet dici credo, ff.cclv v-cclvi r; Sanctorale secundum consuetudinem ecclesie yspalensis (Seville) beginning with St Stephen (Dec. 26) and ending with St. Thomas (Dec. 21); appended are an Office for the translation of St. Isidore, and the Office for St. Mary of Egypt which was omitted at its proper place (April 2), ff.cclvi v-cccliii v.
The date set by the calendar wheel (1448) as the probable date of writing is confirmed by the addition of the Mass for St. Bernardinus on the opening leaves, and the writing in of his name over an erasure in the Kalendar--he was not canonised until 1450.
ProvenanceObtained from Quaritch, Handlist, 1923, n. 26.
Physical Description: Parchment, 7 disbound leaves, 428 mm. by 313 mm., ruled in plummet, 8 lines of text alternating with 8 of music, written-space 317 mm. by 207 mm., written in a formal liturgical textualis, rubrics in red, music in black neumes on 4-line red staves, capitals touched in red; large initials in red and blue with extensive infilling and marginal extensions in both colours; later folio numbers. (de Hamel 2010, n. 35, p. 78)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceObtained in 1922 from Tregaskis. -- As recognized by E. Millar and A. J. Collins, these leaves are from the celebrated Antiphonary of the Cistercian nuns of Beaupré, near Grammont (Belgium) formerly owned by John Ruskin (who extracted from it these and other leaves ca. 1854) and by H. Yates Thompson, subsequently in the A. Chester Beatty coll, n. 63. -- Other leaves belong to the Victoria and Albert Museum (7939-7940), to the Oxford School of painting, and to a Belgian collector. (de Ricci 1935, p. 629)
ProvenanceFrom volume III of the Antiphoner made for the prioress of the Cistercian nunnery of Beaupré (founded 1228, suppressed 1796), at Grimminge, east of Brussels and north of Cambron; gothic foliation in roman numerals added during the revision of the text under Jacquemine Hendricx, abbess of Beaupré 1473-1500, and pagination in arabic numerals during the revision under Angéline de Lossy, abbess 1755-96; sold with the Beaupré manuscripts in 1797; John Ruskin (1819-1900), who owned six volumes from two sets of choirbooks from Beaupré and removed the present leaves himself (see below); probably Laurence Hilliard (d. 1887, aged 32), Ruskin's secretary, who was given many manuscript specimens by Ruskin; sale by his heirs, Sotheby's, 28 April 1913, part of lot 508; C. L. Ricketts, bought from Tregaskis, 1922. (de Hamel 2010, n. 35, p. 78)
Obtained from Barroux, Cat. 24 (1929), n. 8587.
Obtained in 1930 from Quaritch. Probably from the same ms. as the following.
Obtained in 1929 from Ludwig Rosenthal.
Physical Description: Parchment, 220 leaves, 559 mm. by 397 mm., collation: i-xviii 8 , xix-xx 10 , xxi-xxvi 8 , xxvii 4+4 [once of 4, last originally blank, with 2 bifolia inserted probably in the late seventeenth century between iii and iv--now fols. 216-19--with the text now continuing through to fol. 220r], with horizontal catchwords (that on fol. 79v within a cartouche shaped like a fish) and a few traces of leaf signatures; ruled in faint plummet, 6 lines of text alternating with 6 of music, written-space 380 mm. by 260 mm.; written in a large rounded liturgical textualis, rubrics in red, music in black neumes on 4-line red staves, capitals touched in red, small initials in red or blue with penwork in the contrasting colour; large and small painted initials throughout in lush floral designs on delicately decorated panels, come very large, e.g., 78v, 83v, 88r, 101r, 105r, etc.; seventeen large historiated initials, showing the Entry into Jerusalem (fol. 1v), the Agony in the Garden (fol. 23v), the Crucifixion (fol. 41r), the sealing of the Tomb of Christ and placing three sentries to guard it (fol. 54v), the Resurrection (fol. 67v), the risen Christ appearing to the apostles (fol. 113v), Christ blessing (fol. 117v), David playing a psaltery (fol. 119v), the Ascension (fol. 126r), Christ blessing (fol. 150v), the apostles preaching in tongues (fol. 154r), the Annuncation (fol. 167r), Saint Peter Martyr, attended by Dominicans, reattaching the severed leg of the young man who had kicked his mother and had cut off his own leg in remorse (fol. 187v), Saint Helen and the Cross (fol. 199v), and the mocking of Christ, illustrating the Crown of Thorns (fol. 207v); bound in massive wooden boards sewn on 7 double thongs, covered with leather, large metal fittings on sides and clusters of large pegs in thickness of all outer edges, stubs of 4 clasps and straps from the fore-edge and upper and lower edges of upper cover with corresponding pins on the lower cover; spine bare; many soft leather markers knotted together and suspended loosely between the pages. (de Hamel 2010, n. 36, pp. 80-81)
Language: Latin .
Scope and Contents: Music for the hours Offices, Proprium de Tempore (Palm Sunday to Saturday after Pentecost), ff.1r-164v; Annunciation, ff.165r-174r; Commune sanctorum, ff.174r-184v; Proprium de Sanctis, etc. (e.g., St. Peter Martyr, Holy Cross, Corona Domini, ff.184v-214v; St. John before the Latin gate, appended probably in the 17th century to fulfill, a cross reference on f.206r, ff.214v-215r; St. Catherine, not canonised until 1461, added in the 17th century, but not in same hand, ff.215r-215v; "Invention" of the Holy Cross, 17th century with yet another change of hand, f.215v; Blessed Pius V [beatified May 10, 1672] on an inserted gathering of 4 leaves in another 17th-century hand, ff.216r-219v; a prayer to St. Anthony in same hand as on f.215v, f.220r; blank, f.220v.
Peter Martyr, Catherine, and Pope Pius V were all Dominicans; the period covered by the Antiphonary in the church year is roughly March to May.
ProvenanceCortland F. Bishop coll.; sale by Anderson (New York, 12 Apr. 1915, n. 293) to J. Martini. (de Ricci 1935, p. 630)
ProvenancePerhaps from the Dominican church of San Jacopo di Ripoli, Florence; Cortlandt Field Bishop (1870-1935); his sale, New York, Anderson, 12 April 1915, lot 293; C.L. Ricketts. (de Hamel 2010, n. 36, pp. 80-81)
Physical Description: Gothic script. 190 leaves only. 8 staves to the page. On vellum, 33 x 24 cm. (trimmed). Square note musical notation on red four-line staves. Wanting ff.cxxviii and cxxxv in the original foliation (f.cxxviii was missing when the 18th-century ink foliation was added). Original foliation in red ink in centre of outside margin of verso of each leaf (but beginning on actual f.2v), i-clxxxxi; ? 18th-century English foliation in ink, 1-191, but wanting f.135 (i.e. orig. f.cxxxv); 19th-century foliation in pencil at foot of each leaf (used throughout this description). 24 gatherings: of 8 leaves, ff.1-128; of 8, ff.129-134 (but wanting the outermost fold); of 8, ff.135-190. Gatherings numbered on first leaf of each with numeral between decorative penwork columns with yellow colouring, primus--viii; then from the ninth gathering onwards there are catch-words in the normal position at the end of each, instead of numbers. A single historiated, foliate initial on a blue ground on f.2v; the latter form and the marginal extension are painted in rose, lavender grey, orange and blue; within the initial King David kneels at prayer, and from his raised hands rises his soul in the form of a naked man ("Ad te levavi animam meam"). 102 large divided initials in blue and red, infilled and ornamented with red penwork decoration brightened with touches of blue (a few have the colouring of the decoration reversed); the principal motif is a regular spiral meander, each spiral having a centre in solid colour bearing three small beads. Gathering iii has 4 quite different initials in red, blue, yellow and green, both the letter form and the infilling being made up of various geometrical shapes in garish "folk" patterns. Numerous plain initials painted in red or blue, and with blue or red penwork spiral decoration respectively. Tituli and rubrics in red. Bound in brown calf over bevelled wooden boards, tooled in blind with two different concentric borders of plaited ropework enclosing central panels of knotwork built up from impressions of one diamond-shaped tool; in the corners of the panels there is a quarter-circle tool with a design of an urn with flowers; there is an irregular diaper of a small azured quatrefoil over the central panels, and the same tool is used outside the borders and between them. The clasps for two catches, which hinged on the upper cover, remain. There are eight of an original ten metal centre and corner-pieces with bosses. Lined with vellum. 15th century, Italian. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Scope and Contents: 'Incipit Graduale,' Gloria patri et filio et spiritu sancto... in the eight Gregorian modes, ff.1r-2r; Daspersione [sic] aque, f.2r-2v; Proprium de Tempore (including Litany, ff.119v-127r), ff.2v-187v; In die consecrationis et in anniversarium dedicationis ecclesie, ff.187v-190r; cross references to other places in the Gradual for De spiritu sancto Officium, Infra Septuagesimum Officium, Pro quacunque necessitate Officium, f.190r; catch-word only, leading to Proprium de Sanctis, f.190v.
ProvenanceApparently belonged to a nunnery of Santa Cattarina Martire. -- Placed by Luigi Lubrano, of Naples, in a sale by Anderson (New York, 12 Apr. 1915, n. 214), bought by J. Martini.
Sale by Sotheby (London, 8 Apr. 1919, n. 594) to Quaritch. -- Obtained in 1919 from Quaritch.
George A. Crawley sale (London, 9 May 1927, nn. 33 and 31) to Quaritch.
From a sale by Sotheby (London, 30 March 1912, n. 439) to Quaritch.
Physical Description: Parchment, a leaf, 567 mm. by 400 mm., ruled in red ink (with distinctive double ruling for vertical bounding lines), 7 lines of text alternating with 7 of music, written-space 417 mm. by 280 mm.; written in a formal gothic liturgical textualis, rubrics in red, music in diamond-shaped neumes on 4-line red staves, capitals infilled in yellow, a small initial in blue; recto with large historiated initial 'M' ("Magi videntes..."), 170 mm. by 152 mm., showing the three Magi adoring the Child on the Virgin's lap, on a tooled burnished gold ground with long leafy extensions scrolling the length of two margins; a parchment indexing tab attached to lower outer edge. (de Hamel 2010, n. 55, p. 122)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceObtained in 1930 from Maggs, Cat. 512 (1928), n. 291, pl. XXXIII. (de Ricci 1935, p. 631)
ProvenanceAccording to a sixteenth-century Latin poem formerly pasted inside the manuscript's upper cover, the volume was transferred in 1504 from the Benedictine abbey of St. Peter in Salzburg, to the Cistercian abbey of Raitenhaslach, Bavaria (founded 1143, suppressed in 1803); the Benedictine abbey of Seitenstetten, Lower Austria (founded 1112, still functioning); sold by the monks in about 1926, probably to Jacques Rosenthal of Munich, and taken apart, the leaves with miniatures being dispersed by Maggs; this leaf, Maggs cat. 512 (1928), no. 291; C. L. Ricketts. (de Hamel 2010, n. 55, p. 122)
Fritz Hasselmann coll., Munich (his sale, Munich, 24 Nov. 1892). -- Obtained (1921) from Saffroy, Paris.
Obtained in 1915 from P. M. Barnard.
Physical Description: Parchment, a cutting, 102 mm. by 114 mm., recto with a large historiated initial 'O' enclosing the Virgin and Child seated on a classical marble throne, the Virgin holding a book, the Child holding a bird, angel musicians with lutes perched on the arms of the throne, set in a meadow of flowers with roses behind, all within a faceted red initial including gothic architectural compartments from which putti emerge with trumpets, one with a banner showing a red cross on a white ground, all on a burnished gold panel; verso (formerly laid down) with traces of music on a 4-line red stave 42 mm. high and part of two words "e largit us " in a large rounded liturgical hand. (de Hamel 2010, n. 76, p. 168)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceLord Northwick sale (London, 21 May 1928, part of n. 14, facs.) to Quaritch. (de Ricci 1935, p. 632)
ProvenanceProbably William Young Ottley (1771-1836); John Rushout, second Baron Northwick (1770-1859); Northwick Park sale, Sotheby's, 21 May 1928, part of lot 14; C.L. Ricketts. (de Hamel 2010, n. 76, p. 168)
Lord Northwick sale (London, 21 May 1928, part of n. 14, facs.) to Quaritch.
Physical Description: Gothic script (but roman minuscule in second half). 44 leaves of vellum, followed by 35 leaves of paper (17th century). 8 staves to the page. 23 x 15 cm. Square note musical notation on red four-line staves. Syllable measure "bar" lines and accidentals have been crudely added in red at a later date. A few marginal notes in red or black in French, and several short deletions and extensions in the music. The material in the later paper section has been keyed into the original vellum section by the addition of page references. Original foliation of vellum section in red, lxxxxi-lxxxxiii, lxxxxiii bis-Cxiiii, Cxiiii bis-Cxxxii; modern foliation of paper section in pencil, I-V, then original pagination, i-xlv[xlvi-lix]. Modern foliation throughout in pencil at the beginning of each gathering, 1-79 (used throughout this description). 6 gatherings of vellum, 5 gatherings of paper: of 8 leaves, ff.1-40, of 8, ff.41-44 (but last four leaves excised); of 4, ff.45-48 (first and last leaves disjunct); of 10, ff.49-57 (but last leaf excised); of 8, ff.58-73; of 6, ff.74-79. Irregular leaf catch-words in the paper section only. Four leaves of English paper of first half of 17th century (pot watermark) and 31 of French (watermark of Edmond Denise II of Troyes) found in use 1590-1606 (Briquet 5097, Le Clert, Le Papier de Troyes, 113). 4 pages with foliate brown historiated initials, heightened with fine gold modelling, on blue or green rectangles; each page also has a panel border the length of the text, in the outer margin only, the decoration consisting of large flowers, birds, insects and branches, which throw shadows on the dull gold ground. Principal colours: red, green, blue, rose, lavender and white. F.1r (Resurrexi et adhuc tecum sum-Easter). Initial: On a dull gold ground, the risen Christ, with the hat and spade of a gardener, appears to Mary Magdalene who kneels before Him wiht a pot of spices in her hand. Border: Sweet pea, pinks and violas with a butterfly, and a bird with a seed head in its beak. F.15r (Viri Galylei-Ascension). Initial: On a dull gold ground, the risen Christ, with a crossed staff in His left hand, stands on a hillock and blesses Mary and the Apostles just before His Ascension. Initial: Rose, gesso-like acanthus branch, violas, with a small bird holding a twig of berries in its claw. F.18v (Spiritus domini replevit orbem terrarum-Pentecost). Initial: The kneeling Apostles surround the enthroned Mary while the flames of the Holy Spirit descend upon them from the Paraclete above. Border: A pot of pinks with a cane support, a man walking with a stick in his hand and holding a fox thrown over his right shoulder by its left hind paw, a gesso-like acanthus branch, a viola, a strawberry, butterflies and a bee. F.24r (Cibavit eos ex adipe frumenti-Corpus Christi). Initial: An altar with a monstrance under a canopy; to left and right stand a pope and a bishop, and in front kneel two censing priests. Border: Pinks, columbine, lilies, a strawberry, with two multi-coloured birds. 54 small foliate initials modelled in white, on orange rectangles decorated with gold ornamentation, or in gold on blue rectangles also decorated with gold. One of these initials (f.22v-Trinity) is as the large historiated initials, on a green rectangle and infilled with violas on a dull gold ground. Many calligraphic flourished initials with touches of pale yellow and blue colouring, several of these with drawings of grotesque faces, half fleurs-de-lys, fish, or scrolls worked into the bowls and curves. Tituli in red in a bastard hand. Bound in sombre dark calf, with three triple-rule frames in blind forming a central panel in which is an oval stamp in gilt, with the IHS and the instruments of the Crucifixion within a border of flames; small crudely gilded fleuron tools at the corners of the two inner frames. Two brass clasps hinging on the lower cover, catches present on the upper. Sprinkled edges. Early 17th century, northern France or Flanders. Rebacked in the 19th century, with marbled end-papers. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Scope and Contents: Proprium de Tempore (Easter to 23rd Sunday after Pentecost only), ff.1r-44v; offertories, tracts, versicles, responsory, introit, invitatory, communion anthem, ff.45r-73v; Kyries, Glorias, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, ff.74r-79r; blank, f.79v.
ProvenanceObtained from E. Parsons (Cat., 1909, n. 306).
Provenance(i) Anne de Monci (inscription on a scroll decorating a calligraphic initial on f.3v). Acquired by C.L. Ricketts from E. Parsons Catalogue (1909), no. 306. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Physical Description: Parchment, five strips of border ornament, including multiple-shaped compartments of blue and gold acanthus leaves on blue or plain grounds dotted in black, or of coloured flowers on liquid gold grounds dotted in black, one with a bird, (a) vertical, a left-hand margin, 371 mm. by 59 mm., including the letter 'A' in rustic design in gold enclosing the heraldic ermine of Brittany, verso with the extreme ends of musical staves in red, each 14 mm. apart and 45 mm. between lines of music, (b) horizontal, an upper margin, formerly joined at the corner with the previous piece, 47 mm. by 265 mm., including the letters 'L' and 'A' in rustic designs in gold, (c) vertical, 524 mm. by 63 mm., (d) vertical, 319 mm. by 53 mm., including the royal arms of France surmounted by a crown and two panels with alternating lozenges of the fleur-de-lys of France and the ermine of Brittany, and (e) vertical, 510 mm. by 49 mm., including the letter 'L' in rustic design in red threaded through a gold crown, the letter 'A' in rustic deisn in red surmounted by a gold crown and enclosing the ermine of Brittany, and the royal arms of France surmounted by a crown and two triangular compartments with alternating lozenges of the fleur-de-lys and ermine; all bu (b) blank on versos. (de Hamel 2010, n. 83, p. 182)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceObtained in 1914 from Martini. -- Other fragments of the same ms. are in the Robert Lehman coll., New York, and 1 f. is at Wellesley College (n. 6); three pieces are described by Martini, Cat. 11 (1914), nn. 132-134, and only one, by Martini, Cat. 12 (1915), n. 17; two were in the J. Pearson sale (London, 7 Dec. 1924, n. 900, to Maggs); others in a sale by Sotheby (London, 1 June 1905, n. 723, to Warton). (de Ricci 1935, p. 633)
ProvenanceAnne of Brittany (1477-1514) and her husband Louis XII (1462-1515, king of France 1498-1515); C. L. Ricketts, bought from Joseph Martini, 1914. (de Hamel 2010, n. 83, p. 182)
Physical Description: Parchment, a cutting, 311 mm. by 192 mm., recto with very large historiated initial 'D' in coloured leafy design, approximately 147 mm. square, showing the Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew (Matthew 4: 18-19), Christ standing on a bare rocky shore on the left, the apostles in their boat with a net and apparently a fishing rod, distant ships towards the horizon, all on a burnished gold panel; below, a panel within a faceted frame showing two putti in a landscape supporting a coat-of-arms in a roundel; border panel at the foot with formal flowers on a liquid gold ground with the date "M.DXXXIIII" in a roundel; border along left and upper margins with meandering stems of formal coloured flowers and leaves infilled with tiny gold bezants within brown penwork; verso with part of 3 lines in text in a rounded gothic hand and of music in black neumes on a 4-line red stave. (de Hamel 2010, n. 95, p. 206)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceImpaled arms of first owner : 1, or a column argent ensigned by a fleur-de-lis gules entwined by a scroll or motto-band inscribed DNS FIRMAMENTVM; 2, per gale gules and vert, over all between two plates bordured or in bend sinister, a bend argent charged with three birds (doves?) proper. -- Obtained from Tregaskis, Cat. 764 (1 Dec. 1914), n. 28.
Obtained in 1928 from Tregaskis.
Obtained in 1922 from Tregaskis.
Physical Description: Gothic script. 198 (of 199) leaves. 15 lines to a page. On vellum, 8 x 6 cm. (trimmed). Several contemporary marginal corrections; St. Thomas à Becket has been erased in the Kalendar and written in again in a mid-16th century hand; added prayers in 16th-century cursive and Irish hands; or few marginal scribblings. Modern foliation in pencil. 27 gatherings: of 6 leaves, ff.1-12; of 5, ff.13-17 (last leaf is disjunct); of 8, ff.18-73; of 6, ff.74-78 (but first leaf excised); of 8, ff.79-94; of 9, ff.95-103 (last leaf disjunct); of 8, ff.104-159; of 8, ff.160-166 (but wanting seventh leaf); of 6, ff.167-171 (but first leaf excised); of 8, ff.172-195; of 4, ff.196-198 (but last leaf excised). Quire catch-words. 13 pages with full foliate borders in blue and wine supported on burnished gold bars with cusped corners, the borders stemming from foliate initials in blue and wine, infilled with rather heavy floriation and on burnished gold rectangles; the ground of the borders is of green-tipped racemes with small gold ivy leaves and disks, and larger coloured leaves, and each page is enclosed within red ruled frames. The principal colours are wine, blue, lime green, orange, and white. (ff.18r, 27v, 45v, 50v, 54r, 57r, 59v, 62r, 79r, 104r, 152r, 172r, 180r). 168 small gold initials, on wine and blue irregular rectangles with white penwork decoration, each with a marginal extension consisting of three or five green-leaved racemes terminating in small golden grain heads, disks or leaves. Numerous plain initials in red or blue and with blue/black or red penwork frames respectively. Kalendar in red and black. Tituli in red. Bound in black morocco over thin wooden boards, tooled in blind with an acorn in each corner. Lined with vellum. A single leather and brass clasp hinging on the upper cover. Blue edges. 16th-century, English. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Scope and Contents: Kalendar, ff.1r-12v; prayers to the guardian angel, f.13r-13v; memoria of St. Christopher, ff.14r-15r; verses of St. Bernard, ff.15v-16r; memoria of St. Antony Abbot, ff.16v-174; general prayer for delivery from the triumphing of adversaries, in a 16th-century hand, f.17r; prayer of St. Brendan, "Libera me domine" (incomplete), in the same hand, f.17v; Hours of the Virgin and Hours of the Cross mixed (Nones wrongly titled as Sext), ff.18r-66v; Salve regina, prayers and joys, ff.66v-69v; seven joys, and prayers to the Virgin (including "0 intemerata" and "Obsecro te"), ff.69v-78v; prayer in Irish, in a 16th-century hand, f.78v; seven penitential psalms, ff.79r-90v; fifteen psalms of degrees (incipits only for Psalms 119-130), ff.90v-93v; litany, ff.93v-103r; blank, f.103v; Office of the dead, ff.104r-151r; blank, f.151v; commendaciones animarum, ff.152r-171v; psalms of the Passion, ff.172-179v; Psalter of St. Jerome, ff.180r-198v.
ProvenanceSamuel W. Pennypacker coll. (Not identified in his sales, Philadelphia, 1905-1909). -- Obtained in 1912 in Philadelphia.
Provenance(i) C or T..... G..... erased on f.1r; (ii) John Haky (16th-century inscriptions on ff.95r and 125r, one with request for return if lost); (iii) 17th- or 18th-century pressmark, "No. 1964 .64 .35", on f.1r; (iv) Samuel W. Pennypacker (not identified in his sales, Philadelphia, 1905-1909). Acquired by C.L. Ricketts in 1912 in Philadelphia. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Obtained in 1910 from Hiersemann.
Obtained in 1910 from Edward P. Dietrich, London.
Obtained in 1915 from Young.
Physical Description: Parchment, 42 leaves only, 223 mm. by 165 mm.; ruled in red ink, 21 lines, written-space 120 mm. by 83 mm., written in brown ink in a compressed gothic liturgical textura, rubrics in red; one- to 5-line illuminated initials throughout, with three-quarter illuminated borders round every text page; ten large miniatures above 6 lines of text and within full borders, showing Saint Margaret emerging from the dragon (fol. 4v, suffrage), Saint Christopher carrying the Christ Child (fol. 5v, suffrage), Saint Katherine (fol. 6v, suffrage), the Agony in the Garden (fol. 7v, Matins), the Arrest of Christ (fol. 8r, Lauds), Adam and Eve beside the Tree of Knowledge with the Crucifixion in its branches (fol. 19r, prayers to the image of Christ), the Last Judgement (fol. 26r, Penitential Psalms), a funeral service (fol. 40r, Office of the Dead), Christ as the Man of Sorrows (fol. 41r, Psalms of the Passion) and Saint Jerome taking a thorn out of the lion's foot (fol. 42v, Psalter of Saint Jerome); very worn and fragile from damp; bound in quarter black morocco and blue cloth boards; in a fawn cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 60, p. 132)
Language: Latin .
Scope and Contents: 15 Oes (?) [incomplete--6 only], ff.1r-2v; end of prayer for deliverance from triumph of adversaries, f.3r; prayer of St. Brandan, "Libera me domine", f.3r-3v; Memoria of St. Mary Magdalene (end only), f.4r; Memoria of St. Margaret (beginning only), f.4v; Memoria of St. George (end only), f.54; Memoria of St. Christopher, f.5v-6r; Memoria of St. Catherine (beginning only), f.6v; Memoria of St. Barbara (end only), f.7r; Hours of the Virgin "secundum usum anglie" (Matins, to middle of opening prayer only, f.7v, Lauds to last few verses of first proper psalm, f.8r-8v (wants all else); salve regina, farced (incomplete, beginning "salve ad te clamamus exules filii eve"), ff.9r-12r; prayers (O intemerata, Obsecro te, Ave mundi spes maria, Adiuvet nos quesumus domine), ff.12r-16v; seven joys, "Virgo templum trinitatis" by Pope Clement (with note of indulgence granted by Pope Clement), ff.16v-18r; prayers (to the Holy Face, the Cross, the five wounds of Christ, B.V.M., St. John the Evangelist), ff.19r-21v; Venerable Bede's prayer on the Words from the Cross, ff.21v-23r; prayers, etc. (Precor te piissime domine, Deus qui voluisti pro dedempcione mundi, Ave domine ihesu christe verbum patris, Domine ihesu christe qui hanc sacratissimam carnem ... with note of an indulgence granted by Pope Boniface VI "ad supplicationem philippi regis francie"), ff.23r-25r; blank, f.25v; seven penitential psalsms, ff.26r-32v; fifteen psalms of degrees (incipits only for psalms 119-130), ff.32v-34r; Litany (imperfect), ff.34r-39v; Office of the dead (beginning only), f.40r-40v; psalms of the Passion (beginning and end only), ff.41r-42r; psalter of St. Jerome (beginning only), f.42v.
In the original volume the order of the surviving Memoriae was more likely to have been Sts. George, Christopher, Catherine, Mary Magdalene, Margaret, Barbara. The Boniface mentioned in the indulgence note is probably a misnumbering for Boniface VIII (pope 1294-1303), the only pope of that name during the reign of a French Philip (in this case Philip IV), though their relations as pope and king could not have been worse.
10 pages with illuminated miniatures in arched gold frames; three-quarter inhabited borders of branching scrolls of foliage in blue, orange, green and rose, with knotted branches and small flowers (roses, cornflowers, etc.), against a ground of broken penwork tendrils with small golden ivy leaves and grain heads (the borders are separated from text at base and both sides by segmented bars in rose and blue with white penwork decoration); each of these pages has a large foliate initial in blue or rose, on a rectangle of burnished gold and infilled with an interlace of coloured ivy tendrils.
The figure drawing throughout is poor and the faces inclined to be grotesque.
There are 3 other foliate initials on golden rectangles in the same style as on these pages iwht miniatures
42 pages have three-quarter borders of fine ivy tendrils with golden leaves and disks and a few coloured flower terminals; against this background, in the top and bottom margins, stands a formal spray of blue and orange foliage or a sprig of fantastic flowers; the borders are divided from the text, on the lefthand side only, by a gold and rose bar
421 small gold initials, on irregular rectangles of blue and rose with white penwork decoration
Processing Information: De Ricci has this manuscript "Written in England," but de Hamel places it in Bruges.
ProvenanceObtained in 1907 from E. Parsons.
Physical Description: Parchment, 138 leaves (2 blank), 205 mm. by 154 mm., collation: i 12 , ii 6 , iii 8 , iv 7 [of 8, lacking i, before fol. 27], v 7 [of 8, lacking vi, after fol. 38], vi 6 [of 8, lacking vi, after fol. 38], vi 6 [of 8, lacking ii and vi, after fols. 41 and 44], vii-ix 8 , x 7 [of 8, lacking vi, after fol. 75], xi-xvii 8 , xviii 5 [of 8, lacking vi-viii at end], with horizontal catchwords; ruled in red ink, 18 lines, written-space 122 mm. by 77 mm.; written in dark brown ink in a good liturgical textualis, rubrics in red, Calendar in alternating lines of red and blue with major entries in gold; illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout; 2-line initials all with half borders of gold ivy leaves around the outer side of the pages and (if on recto pages) with marginal sprays in the inner margins too; 24 Calendar miniatures of the occupations of the months and the signs of the zodiac; four 6-line historiated initials, showing Saints John (fol. 14r), Luke (fol. 15r), Matthew (fol. 16r) and Mark (fol. 17r); seven three-quarter-page miniatures with full borders, showing the Annunciation (fol. 19r, Matins, miniature for Lauds missing), the Nativity (fol. 36r, Prime, miniatures for Terce, Sext, and None missing), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 48r, Vespers), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 55r, Compline, miniature for the Hours of the Cross missing), Pentecost (fol. 82r, Hours of the Holy Ghost), David in prayer (fol. 87v, Penitential Psalms) and a funeral (fol. 105v, Office of the Dead); bound in late eighteenth-century English red morocco, marbled endleaves, gilt edges, re-backed; in a fawn cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 56, pp. 124-125)
Language: Latin .
Scope and Contents: Kalendar, ff.1r-12v; blank, f.13; Sequentiae of the Gospels, ff.14r-17v; blank, f.18; Hours of the Virgin, "a lusage de Romme" (wanting opening leaves of Lauds, Tierce, Sext, Nones), ff.19r-59v (Compline contains prayers and antiphons to the B.V.M., f.57v, All Saints, ff.57v-58v; Salve regina, ff.58v-59r; prayer and antiphon to St. Francis, ff.59r-59v); psalms for Tuesdays and Fridays, ff.59v-63r; psalms for Wednesdays and Saturdays, ff.63r-66v; Office of the Virgin in Advent, ff.67r-75r; blank, f.75v; Hours of the Cross (wanting opening leaf), ff.76r-81v; Hours of the Holy Ghost, ff.82r-87r; seven penitential psalms, ff.87v-96v; Litany, ff.96v-104r; Office of the dead (wanting short portion at the end), ff.104v-138v.
The 4 historiated initials in the Sequentiae each show an Evangelist at work on his Gospel; all are writing on rolls, not in books:
St. John on an island with a devil behind him instead of his eagle--the devil grasps the saint's pen case and has upset the ink-bottle which is tied to the case.
St. Luke, in a cap with liripipe and a blue robe, sits at a two-sided screw lectern--the bull lies quietly at his feet. The background is chequered in blue, gold and rust.
St. Matthew, in a cap and green robe, sits at a revolving screw table on which is a writing slope--his angel, in a blue tunic and with red and white wings, kneels on the black and white tessellated pavement and holds the saint's ink-bottle in his hand; with his left he steadies a book which holds down the free end of the saint's roll. The background is wine with silver (?) tracery.
St. Mark, in a grey skull cap and hood and a red robe wiht a blue purse at his girdle, sits on a faldstool and examines the point of his pen; the roll on the desk beside him is scarcely begun and there is an ink horn in a bracket at the side of the desk--the saint's lion peers round from behind the desk and holds a blank scroll in his mouth (the other end of the saint's roll?). The background is blue with fine gold "fern" tracery.
1827 small initials in blue and rose, on irregular rectangles of burnished gold and with foliate infilling in blue and rust--the K L heading initials in the Kalendar are particularly fine and have elaborate white penwork decoration in the body of the letters. Numerous foliate and geometrical line-endings in blue and rust on gold bar grounds. The Kalendar is in blue, red and gold; the tituli are in red; the rubrics are underlined in red. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
ProvenanceEnglish armorial bookplate (with the Bracebridge and Holte arms) of Abraham Bracebridge who married, in 1775, Mary Elizabeth Holte; belonged (at least until 1871) to C. H. Bracebridge, of Atherstone Hall. -- Obtained in 1922 from Leighton, Cat. II, 3 (ca. 1922), n. 1726, pl. II-III. (de Ricci 1935, p. 635)
ProvenanceAnne Holte (1733-1799), wife of Sir Charles Holte (1721-1782), with her signature on the flyleaf; armorial bookplate with the arms of her daughter Mary Elizabeth (1757-1819) impaling those of Mary's husband, Abraham Bracebridge (c. 1747-1832), of Atherstone Hall, Warwickshire; note by their son, Charles Holte Bracebridge (1799-1872), formerly enclosed, "This Missal dated 1640 has been preserved in my family up to this time", Atherstone, 20 May 1871 (mistaking a number '1640' on the front pastedown for a date); Leighton, cat. II, 3 (May 1921), no. 1726; C. L. Ricketts. (de Hamel 2010, n. 56, pp. 124-125)
Physical Description: Parchment, 170 leaves (17 blank), 237 mm. by 164 mm., collation: 4 medieval blanks (included in foliation) + i 8 , ii 4 , iii 6 , iv 7 [of 8, lacking i, before fol. 23], v 7+1 [of 8+1, lacking iii, before fol. 32, with opening of Lauds, last leaf (fol. 37) is added, with its own catchword], vi 8+2 [of 8, now including a bifolium (fols. 40-41) misbound from the following quire], vii 2 [of 8, iii-iv now misbound in the previous quire, lacking v-viii with text of Prime], viii 7 [of 8, lacking i, before fol. 50, with opening of Terce], ix 8 , x 7 [of 8, lacking i, before fol. 65, with opening of Vespers of the Cross], xi 8 , xii 2+1 , xiii-xiv 8 , xv 7+6 [of 8, blank viii cancelled and replaced by 6 blanks, now fols. 106-111], xvi-xxi 8 , xxii 2+1 , xxiii 8 , mostly with horizontal catchwords; ruled in red ink, 16 lines, written-space 120 mm. by 64 mm.; written in a gothic liturgical textualis, rubrics in red, Calendar in alternating lines of red and blue with major entries in gold; 1 and 2-line initials throughout and illuminated borders surrounding every page; 24 Calendar miniatures of the occupations of the months and the signs of the zodiac; 11 large or full-page miniatures, showing the Nativity (fol. 40r, misbound, Prime of the Virgin, three-quarter page), the Scourging of Christ (fol. 52v, Terce of the Cross, full-page, with border), the Magi (fol. 54v, Sext of the Virgin, three-quarter page), the Deposition (fol. 70v, Vespers of the Cross, full-page, with border), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 72r, Compline of the Virgin, three-quarter-page), the Entombment (fol. 78v, Compline of the Cross, full-page, with border), David in prayer in the wilderness (fol. 83r, Penitential Psalms, three-quarter-page) and a funeral service in a church (fol. 112r, Office of the Dead, three-quarter-page); bound in eighteenth-century English calf, red edges, defective and broken; in a fawn cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 59, pp. 130-131)
Language: Latin .
Scope and Contents: Blank, ff.1-4; Kalendar, ff.5r-16v; sequentiae of the Gospels, ff.17r-21v; blank, f.22; Hours of the Virgin and of the Cross, mixed, ff.23r-79v; Salve regina, etc., ff.79v-81r; five joys, ff.81r-82r; blank, f.82v; seven penitential psalms, ff.83r-94r; fifteen psalms of degrees (incipits only for Psalms 119-130), ff.94r-96v; litany, ff.96v-105r; blank, ff.105v-111v; Office of the dead, ff.112r-143v; Commendationes animarum, ff.144r-162v; Obsecro te, ff.163r-166r; O intemerata, ff.166r-169r; blank, ff.169v-170v.
Amongst the various Sarum and French saints given in gold in the Kalendar is Bishop Wulfstan of Worcester.
11 pages have large illuminated miniatures, and the Kalendar has 24 small miniatures. Every page has a full inhabited illuminated border of regularly curling ivy branches with golden leaves and grain heads, each branch having a coloured flower terminal (cornflowers, strawberries, forget-me-nots, gooseberries, campanulas, marigolds (?), mallows (?), aroids, columbine, pinks, rose buds); the inhabitants include long-tailed green birds, orange butterflies, peacocks with tails displayed and seen from directly in front ravens, doves and other birds, centaur-like grotesques with clubs or bows, naked men, praying angels, dragon birds, fools, two-legged grotesques with human heads, and dragons. The borders are divided from the text by a frame of thin gold, blue, and rose bars on three sides, the bottom corners and the top terminals of these bars extending to form curving branches of acanthus in blue and orange; or pots and sprays of flowers; or the tails or tongues of large blue, green, pink or orange dragons; or animal masks. The left hand side of the frame is sometimes broken to form, or to take in, the gold ground for neighboring initials.
The large miniatures are in arched golden frames and, in all cases but one, those for the Hours of the Virgin are linked to the text by a heavy gold bar frame on three sides within the borders; against these bars is floriated and foliate decoration in different formal patterns. Those for the Hours of the Cross have the same type of frames, but stand alone on pages without text. The quality of the portraiture is good; the colouring throughout is strong, though the greens and oranges are unpleasantly acid.
8 foliate initials in blue or rose, with white penwork decoration and on rose or blue irregular rectangles respectively; each has foliate infilling in blue and orange on a ground of burnished gold. 176 smaller foliate initials in blue or rose, with white penwork decoration and infilled with blue and orange foliage, on irregular rectangles of gold. 1279 small plain initials in gold, on blue and rose irregular rectangles with white penwork decoration. Numerous bar line-endings in blue and rose, with serpentine or running chevron decoration in white penwork and with gold disks or diamonds. The Kalendar is in blue, vermilion, gold, and black; the tituli are in red. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
ProvenanceFrom Draycot House (XVIIIth c.). -- Obtained in Dec. 1922 from Maggs. (de Ricci 1935, p. 635)
Provenance"Draycot House" (eighteenth-century inscription on front pastedown), presumably the former country house near Chippenham, Wiltshire, built in 1784 for Sir James Tylney-Long (1736-1794), seventh baronet; C.L. Ricketts, bought from Maggs, December 1922. (de Hamel 2010, n. 59, pp. 130-131)
Obtained in 1915 from P. M. Barnard.
Physical Description: Gothic script. 194 leaves. 20 lines to the page. On vellum, 14 x 10 cm. Marginal drawings in ocher crayon pastel on ff.35v (a seated woman; a pensive man), 99v (backview of a priest in chasuble standing at an altar). Erased contemporary note in Dutch on f.194v. Modern foliation in pencil. 24 gatherings: of 10 leaves, ff.1-10; of 8, ff.11-194. 7 large divided initials painted in red and blue with bracket motifs, on irregular rectangles of, and infilled with large curling acanthus leaves in red and purple penwork, and with the background picked out in solid green; there are also touches of solid blue and yellow. Marginal extensions in the same style form borders on three or four sides. 40 smaller 'panelled' initials painted in blue, on irregular rectangles of, and infilled with curling foliage in red penwork, and with the background picked out in solid green; marginal extensions of red penwork flourishes with touches of solid green. Numerous plain initials in red or blue; Latin and Dutch tituli in red; later (?) sectional tituli, in Dutch and a semi-bastarda hand, have been added in scarlet. Bound in black leather over thin bevelled oak boards; signs of two clasps which hinged on the lower cover; two brass staples engraved with a strawberry at the top of the covers, for suspending the book from a belt; vellum end-leaves; blue edges. Contemporary, Dutch. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Language: Dutch; Flemish .
Scope and Contents: Kalendar, ff.1r-10v; Hours of the Virgin (with Salve regine at f.45r), ff.11r-45v; prayer to the B.V.M., f.45v; Hours of the Eternal Wisdom, ff.46r-66r; Hours of All Saints, ff.66v-90v; Hours of the Holy Ghost, ff.91r-114v; Hours of the Cross (Compline wrongly titled as Nones), ff.115r-136v; seven penitential psalms, ff.137r-145r; litany, ff.145r-156v; Office of the dead, ff.157r-191v; prayer to the Trinity, ff.191v-194r; prayer, f.194r-194v.
Saints in red in the Kalendar include Pontianus, Pancras, Odulph, Lebuinus, Lambert, Gereon and Willibrord.
ProvenanceFrom a New York sale (ca. 1919).
Physical Description: Gothic script. 123 (of 175?) leaves. 18 lines to the page. On vellum, 14 x 10 cm. (trimmed). A few, possibly 16th-century, additions at ff.35v, 39r, 95r-95v, 121v-122v. Modern foliation in pencil at commencement of each gathering, 1-122 (there is a miniature stuck to the verso of f.87, thus making 123 leaves in all). The volume has been rebound in the 19th century, resulting in an extraordinarily haphazard arrangement of the leaves. As originally bound and when complete it probably contained 22 gatherings (running [1] 12 , [2-5] 8 , [6] 6 (first leaf excised), [7-13] 8 , [14] 6 , [15-16] 8 , [17] 4 , [18-21] 8 , [22] 6 ); a description of the present arrangement would be utterly misleading. Bound in calf over thin bevelled wooden boards, with a border of a double arabesque tool forming a centre panel, which contains two diamonds (arranged vertically) of fine knotwork, each diamond made up of four impressions of the same knot tool. At the corners of the border and of the central panel is a small leaf. All the decoration was originally in gilt, though possibly painted on rather than hot-tooled. Lined with vellum cut from a manuscript, the writing being on the underside. The leather of the spine and of the edges of the boards has been renewed in the 19th century, but there is even the possibility that the whole binding was "assembled" at that period, using the leather from the covers of another binding. The style of the decoration is decidedly Venetian, of the late 15th or early 16th century, and not what one would expect to find on a Flemish manuscript of the period.
Language: Dutch; Flemish .
Scope and Contents: 5 (of an original 6?) full-page illuminated miniatures very rudely painted and with very thick "metallic" gold backgrounds; they are within thin rectangular golden frames lined with rose and from the corners and from the centre of the inner margin of the frames sprout simple curves of black penwork branches with small green leaves, formalised coloured flowerets with golden centres, and gold disks, all forming a full border. In the misbinding several of the miniatures (which are all on disjunct leaves) have been placed at the commencement of the wrong sections:
f.13v (Hours of the Virgin). The Annunciation. Gabriel, in rose and with red and blue wings, kneels on the green tessellated pavement on the left; he carries a blank streamer scroll in his left hand and blesses with his right Mary, who kneels at a rose and white prie-dieu with her back to him, but half turning. Above Mary hangs a red curtain caught up to the right.
f.36v (Hours of the Eternal Wisdom?) [should be before f.88?]. God the Father, in a finely draped blue mantle lined with rose over a green robe, sits on a simple wooden throne, which is pleased on a green tessellated pavement; He holds three naked men in a napkin stretched between his hands (the weighing of souls?, or Creator of all things?).
f.50v (Penitential psalms). King David, crownless, kneels in penitence in a flatly painted green "landscape"; he wears an ermine-lined rose mantle over a green robe, and his harp is propped beside him on the right. Above, to the right, are the head and shoulders of the God the Father in a blue cloud.
f.74v (Hours of the Holy Ghost). Pentecost. Mary sits surrounded by the seated Apostles who are in mantles and robes of orange, grey, blue, green, and red. Again the tessellated pavement is green. This is the most finely painted of an altogether poor set of miniatures; the draping of the Virgin's robe is good, and the haloes, to contrast with the burnished gold background, are in powdered gold.
f.87v [miniature stuck down on leaf] (Hours of the Cross?) [should be before f.37?] Christ the King, uncrowned and in a poorly draped rose robe, gives benediction and carries a golden orb in this left hand.
[Miniature for Office of the dead missing.]
The opening pages of 5 sections (again some misplaced) have large blue or rose initials, with white penwork decoration and on irregular rectangles of burnished gold; the initials are infilled with chequered patterns or coarse branches of foliage in blue, red, and white. The text on these pages is contained within narrow panel bars in rose, gold, and blue to left and right, and outside these, forming a border in the three outer margins, is a simple gold rule frame, crossing at the corners and decorated with small green leaves and grape-like bunches of small gold dots or heavily drawn gold ivy leaves; the narrow inner margin border is composed of multicoloured flowerets or leaves.
17 pages, containing the opening of the various hours from Lauds to Compline, have plain gold initials on blue and rose rectangles, which have heavy white pen work decoration. In the outer margins are cusped bars of rose and blue lined with gold, which sprout at top and bottom into light racemes with green leaves and golden trefoil terminals. Outside the bars in many cases are vertical groups of multi-coloured flowerets.
Numerous plain initials painted in red or blue, some with red penwork decoration which extends the height of the text; blue and red 'bracket' line endings (gold and blue in the litany); red tituli.
Scope and Contents: Saints in red in the Kalendar include Pontianus, Pancras, Odulph, Lebuinus, Lambert, Gereon, and Willibrord.
N. 12 in a Tregaskis (?) cat., ca. 1895. -- Purchased in Chicago (1905).
Belonged to Maggs; William Harris Arnold sale (New York, 1924, n. 447) to Ricketts.
Physical Description: Bastarda gothic script. 123 (of 125) leaves. 20 lines to the page. On vellum, 18 x 12 cm. Modern foliation in pencil. 16 gatherings: of 12 leaves, ff.1-12; of 8, ff.13-20; of 9, ff.21-29 (last leaf disjunct); of 8, ff.30-53; of 8, ff.54-59 (wanting fourth and fifth leaves); of 8, ff.60-75; of 2, ff.76-77; of 8, ff.78-117; of 6, ff.118-123. Bound in black morocco, with double line gilt frame and with a single tool deeply impressed on front and back covers--instruments of the Passion on, hanging from, and propped against the Cross, with the skull of Golgotha beneath; vellum free end-leaves and paste-downs, the latter now covered iwth an 18th-century marbled paper; gilt edges. Early 17th century, French. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Language: Kalendar and some rubrics in French.
Scope and Contents: Kalendar, ff.1r-12v; sequentiae of the Gospels, ff.13r-17r; Obsecro te, ff.17v-20v; O intemerata, ff.20v-23r; Salutatio B.V.M. ("Missus est"), ff.23v-29r; blank except for border panel, f.29v; Hours of the Virgin (wanting beginning of Nones), ff.30r-67r; Hours of the Cross, ff.67v-72v; Hours of the Holy Ghost, ff.73r-77v; seven penitential psalms, ff.78r-87r; litany, ff.87r-92v; Office of the dead, ff.92r-123v. The only unusual saint in gold in the Kalendar is St. Taurinus of Evreux; both in the Kalendar and in the Litany St. Ursinus of Lisieux appears.
Scope and Contents: 14 of an original 15 illuminated miniatures in narrow arched frames of a gold wash, the arcs being engrailed. The miniature pages have full foliate and floriated borders on grounds of a gold wash, the foliage being in the shape of branching scrolls in red and blue, pink and blue, or lavender and white, and the finely coloured flowers being in naturalistic sprigs (daisies, hare-bells, forget-me-nots, thistles, berries, lobelia, trumpet-flowers, pimpernel?, corn-flowers, petunias, rose hips, blackberries, raspberries, roses, strawberries, poppies, violas, and aroids). All the remaining pages have a vertical panel border the height of the text in the outer margins only; the decoration is of the same types of flowers and foliage, except that the branching scrolls are in blue and a gold wash, and the ground is uncoloured; the panels are outlined with rules in a rust-red ink. Frequently there is a narrow "page-divider" panel of the same type in the gutter of the righthand pages.
184 initials in blue-white gesso-like modeling over wine, on rectangles of a gold wash and infilled with single tiny coloured flowers and berries of the varieties found in the borders. Numerous small plain initials in powdered gold, on rectangles of pinkish-brown or blue; bar line-endings in one or other of the same colours, with gold pen-work decoration in various patterns; tituli and rubrics in a faded red; rubricated in yellow (?); Kalendar in gold, faded red, and blue.
Michel de La Cour Damonville coll. (his engraved portrait on vellum); belonged ca. 1700 to Michael Tyson and ca. 1740 to James Norman (his bookplate); A. C. Norman sale (London, 11 Dec. 1922, n. 22) to Tregaskis. -- Possibly identical with one of two ms. Horae listed in the La Cour Damonville ms. catalogue (S. de Ricci coll.), f. 68 r. -- Cf. his sale, Paris, 27 July 1756, p. 35, part of n. 26.
Physical Description: Gothic script. 131 (of 135) leaves. 17 lines to the page. On vellum, 16 x 12 cm. (trimmed). Modern foliation at commencement of each gathering. 17 gatherings: of 12 leaves, ff.1-12; of 6, ff.13-17 (but wanting first leaf); of 8, ff.18-24 (but wanting first leaf); of 8, ff.25-48; of 9, ff.49-57 (last leaf is disjunct); of 8, ff.58-64 (but wanting first leaf); of 8, ff.65-120; of 8, ff.121-127 (but wanting fifth leaf); of 4, ff.128-131. Bound in blind-stamped red morocco with four-line frames and cornerpieces in gold; the central panels are elongated hexagons of flower sprays forming borders round lozenges of a regular wavy grain texture; spine gilt and signed W.P. Cassassus [of Rouen?]; edges gilt; vellum end-leaves with pastedowns of flower and wavy grain blind-impressed blue paper. Ca. 1835-1840, French. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Language: Kalendar, some tituli, and last section in French.
Scope and Contents: Kalendar, ff.1r-12v; sequentiae of the Gospels (wanting opening miniature of St. John or the Evangelists?), ff.13r-17r; arms of the owners, f.17v; Hours of the Virgin (wanting beginning of Matins, with miniature), ff.18r-57v; seven penitential psalms (wanting beginning; with miniature), ff.57v-67r; litany, ff.67r-72r; Hours of the Cross, ff.72r-77r; Hours of the Holy Ghost, ff.77r-80v; Office of the dead, ff.81r-118r; Obsecro te, ff.118r-121r; O intemerata, ff.121r-124v; fifteen joys (in French, and wanting beginning), ff.125r-128v; seven requests (in French), ff.128v-131r; blank, f.131v.
Scope and Contents: One of an original 3 illuminated miniatures in a narrow arched golden frame, the arc being engrailed, at f.81r (Office of the dead): A burial scene. Two laymen kneeling to left and right in the foreground, in blue and deep rose tunics respectively, lower a shrouded corpse into a grave; in the centre stand the three officiating clergy in decorated copes of deep rose, lavender and blue, and in surpluses; the priest on the left holds a pot of holy water in his left hand and sprinkles the corpse with an aspergillum in his right; the priest on the right holds the service-book open for his colleague in his right hand; behind the priests can be seen the heads and shoulders of two tonsured deacons? in surpluses, and on either side of them stand two groups of deeply cowled mourning monks; the background is formed by what may be a small chapel on the left and the cemetery wall on the right.
13 pages at the beginning of the less important sections and at the opening of the various hours from Lauds to Compline have 1/2 or 3/4 borders, and the page with the miniature has a full border, all in the same style: the panels of decoration are contained within single red rules and are irregularly segmented by straight and curved lines, the ground of the segments being alternately in a wash gold, and in the natural colour of the vellum; over this ground are branching scrolls of foliage in blue and a wash of gold, and naturalistic coloured flowers and fruits (raspberries, red currants, blackberries, daisies, forget-me-nots, hare bells, thistles, strawberries, roses, violas, black currants), the foliate scrolls never being on a gold background; the interstices between the leaves and flowers are filled with tiny black penwork flecks. Marginal sketches on ff.83v (a grotesque skull, in yellow cap and bells, decomposing and spitting blood), and 86r (a face similarly adorned, though not spitting).
These same pages also have initials in blue outlined in wine, and with white penwork decoration, infilled with trefoils in the same colours, and on rectangles of gold. 1301 plain initials in gold, on irregular rectangles of blue and wine with white penwork decoration; segmented bar line-endings in the same colours and with the same decoration, but with the addition of central gold spots; tituli in red.
ProvenanceSale of comte Georges de Nédonchel (Gand, 1903, n. 53); obtained from Charles Sessler (n. 291, facs., in a cat.).
(i) Painted arms of original owners (probably husband and wife) at f.17v: Two escutcheons hanging on a tree surmounted by a plumed helmet (crest?), [a] Azure, on a chief dancetty argent, a lion passant sable (supporters: Two naked but sashed putti), [b] Barry of five argent and azure (supporters: Two unicorns); and at f.124v, Per pale the same arms as before, dexter [a], sinister [b] (supporters: Two stoats? or weasels?); there is a partially legible contemporary inscription under the arms on f.17v: Ce livre el parti (?) Sire Jehan le Marchaut ... Caudtart (??); (ii) Comte Georges de Nedonchel (bookplate); sale Ghent (1903), no. 53. Acquired by C.L. Ricketts from Charles Sesller (no. 291, with a facsimile, in an unidentified catalogue). (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Physical Description: Bastarda Gothic script. 110 (of 135?) leaves. 20 lines to the page. On vellum, 20 x 14 cm. Wanting 2 leaves before f.2; leaves before ff.21, 32; 3 leaves before f.38; leaf before f.39; 2 leaves between ff.40 and 41; leaf before f.42; 6 leaves between ff.47 and 48; leaf before f.65; 4 leaves between ff.89 and 90; leaf between ff.93 and 94. (17 of these leaves had miniatures). Modern foliation in pencil. 19 gatherings: of 6 leaves, ff.1-6 (but wanting second and third leaves); of 8, ff.5-20; of 8, ff.21-27 (but wanting first leaf); of 8, ff.28-34 (but wanting fifth leaf); of 3, ff.35-37 (third leaf is disjunct); of 4?, f.8 (but wanting first through third leaves); of 8, ff.39-42 (but wanting first, fourth, fifth, and seventh leaves); of 8, ff.43-44 (but wanting second through seventh leaves); of 8, ff.45-50 (but wanting fourth and fifth leaves); of 8, ff.51-58; of 6, ff.59-64; of 8, ff.65-71 (but wanting first leaf); of 8, ff.72-87; of 8, ff.88-91 (but wanting third through sixth leaves); of 8, ff.92-98 (but wanting third leaf); of 8, ff.99-106; of 4, ff.107-110. A very few catch-words low down in the gutter and underlined in red. Bound in black morocco, with blind-rolled thick and thin double line border; four metal corner-pieces missing; straight-combed marbled end-papers; edges gilt and gauffered. Mid-19th century, French. (W. Gordon Wheeler, 1966-67)
Scope and Contents: Blank, f.1r; incipit, f.1v; sequentiae of the Gospels (wanting the passage from St. John and beginning of the passage from St. Luke), ff.2r-4r; blank, f.4v; eight prayers for before and after Mass, ff.5r-9r; four miscellaneous prayers, addressed to the Deity and to Jesus, ff.9r-15r; contemplation of St. Anselm on the crucified Christ, ff.15r-17r; litany of Blessed Peter of Luxemburg, ff.17r-19v; seven verses of St. Bernard, ff.19v-20r; prayer, O omnipotens sempiterne deus qui ezechie rege iude..., f.20r-20v; Hours of the Virgin, Matins and Lauds, with proper psalms for days of the week (wanting beginning of each Hour, ff.21r-37v; Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Ghost, mixed, Prime through Compline (wanting most of Prime, beginning of Terce, most of Sext, beginning of Nones, all Vespers, most of Compline), ff.38r-45r; ordinary according to season of the Church year, Advent, Christmas through octave of the Purification, Easter through Trinity, ff.45v-46r; suffrages to the B.V.M. (Alma redemptoris mater, Salve regina, Inviolate integra et casta, Ave regina celorum, Ave ancille trinitatis, ff.46v-47v; seven penitential psalms (wanting first two and beginning of the third), ff.48r-53v; litany, ff.53v-59r; prayers and suffrages (on getting up, on leaving the house, on entering a church, on taking holy water, before the crucifix [2], on the priest turning to the congregation, on teh elevation of the Host, on the elevation of the chalice, general prayer, between elevation of the Eucharist and the Agnus Dei [with note of indulgence from Pope Boniface], for peace, before receiving the Host, after receiving the Host, against storms, for the king, against evil thoughts, against tribulations and temptation of the flesh, for a friend in trouble, for travellers, for benefactors, for a friend in need, for a deceased friend, for peace), ff.59v-64v; Office of the dead, with psalms for feast days before and after the eulogy of the deceased, and with prayers for the deceased at burial (wanting beginning of the Office), ff.65r-88v; memoriae, the Trinity, the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, the Holy Fade (wanting Angel, Patriarch, and Apostles), Sts. Sebastian, Christopher, Nicholas, Claude of Besançon, Jerome, Antony Abbot (wanting Maur and beginning of Anne), Mary Magdalene, Catherine, Margaret, Barbara, Apollonia, Libaria, All Saints, ff.88r-97v; seven prayers of St. Gregory, ff.97v-98v; Obsecro te, ff.99r-101r; O intemerata, ff.101r-103v; prayer of St. Augustine to the B.V.M., ff.103v-107r; prayers, O Maria tu es paradisi porta, Stabat Mater, Ave cuius conceptio..., Deus qui nos conceptionis nativitatis..., ff.107r-109r; seven joys of the B.V.M., ff.109v-110r.
Doubtless the little known patroness of Grand St. Libaria, who washed her head in a stream and "went to sleep in the Lord" (whereupon there was a great trembling of the earth and the walls and towers of the city fell down), and who planted her spindles and distaff which then sprouted branches, was included in the Memoriae for the benefit of the original owners and in reference to their arms.
The presence of St. Claude in the Memoriae would suggest Paris as the place of origin, but the use is, in some respects only, more like that of Rouen; on the other hand, saints in the litany range for the most part from north-western to north-eastern France, but with emphasis on the east.
It is puzzling to find Peter of Luxemburg already described as "Blessed": he was not beatified until 1527, and this Horae is almost certainly not as late as that.
Scope and Contents: 18 (of an original 36 or 37) small illuminated miniatures painted in strong colours accompany the opening initials of sections (the initials are not historiated in the usual sense), each within a frame of vermilion rules and having the same gold and brown plain columns to extreme left and right of every scene. There is considerable use of gold shading. The pages with miniatures have full or 3/4 frames of segmented bars in blue and brown, with gold decoration in various foliate and geometrical patterns, or else the same types of frame made up of straight leafless branches painted in a wash of gold, or occasionally, bars of a dull gold ground painted with a line of single flowers and strawberries.
The outer margins of these miniature pages, and of 113 other pages which begin sub-sections, have a rectangular panel of foliate and floriated illuminated decoration painted in bright colours the height of the text. Each panel is outlined by a gold and dull red rule to left and right only, and the treatment and division of the ground ranges through a most ingenious variety of foliate and geometrical shapes and segements painted gold, brown, or blue with the background left in the natural colour of the vellum; within these shapes (lily leaves, hearts, triangles, tablets, mitred crenellations, diamonds, half fleurs-de-lys, semicircles, scrolls, quatrefoils, circles, parallelograms, slipped trefoils, rectangles, streamers, ogee shapes, slipped octofoils, holly leaves, ivy leaves) are painted sprays of naturalistic flowers (daisies, lobelia, hare bells, strawberries, berries, roses, aroids, forget-me-nots, raspberries, nightshade lanterns, thistles, violas, petunias, seed pods, columbine?, cornflowers) in gold on the brown and blue shapes, and in colours on the gold shapes; the spaces between teh shapes are filled with the same flowers and/or with branching scrolls of foliage in blue or green, or pink, and a gold wash. A few panels are without background shapes and are filled solely with the same flowers and foliage, occasionally with the addition of coloured birds and snails, vertical leafless branches, or diagonally placed short tree trunks in gold; these branches occur sometimes instead of one or other, or both, of the side rules of the panels. The background shapes here and there bear the monograms in gold of Ihesus or Maria.
195 initials painted in brown with gold decoration, on rectangles of blue with silver decoration, or vice versa (a few are painted in gold alone on brown rectangles with gold decoration). Numerous small plain initials in gold, on blue or brown rectangles with gold penwork decoration; segmented bar line-endings in the same colours and with foliate and geometrical decoration in gold; tituli in vermilion or occasionally blue; 'rubricated' in ? yellow.
Arms of first owner : azure 3 fusils [i.e., spindles] [or more probably pilgrim's staves] or and in chief an escallop-shell argent (his motto : a deine ). -- Apparently n. 95508 in a Claudin catalogue (not identified). -- Obtained in 1913 from J. Randon, Paris.
Physical Description: Parchment, 150 leaves (3 blank) + pastedowns, 187 mm. by 134 mm., collation: i 11 [of 12, blank i probably the front pastedown], ii 8+2 [fols. 11 and 12 added with miniatures], iii-iv 8 , v 8+1 [fol. 41 added with miniature], vi 8 , vii 8+1 [fol. 61 added with miniature], viii-ix 8 , x 8+1 [fol. 79 added with miniature], xi 8 , xii 8+1 [fol. 99 added with miniature], xiii 8 , xiv 6+1 [fol. 113 added with miniature], xv 8+1 [fol. 120 added with miniature], xvi-xvii 8 , xviii 5 [of 6, vi now the rear pastedown]; ruled in brown ink, 21 lines, written-space 103 mm. by 65 mm.; written in dark brown ink in a small rather prickly liturgical textura, rubrics in red or underlined in red, capitals touched in red, versal initials in alternating blue and burnished gold; illuminated initials throughout in burnished gold on blue and pink grounds with white tracery, usually with full-length marginal baguettes sprouting into sprays of coloured flowers and leaves, some pages with full baguette borders surrounding the pages with extensive marginal decoration; twelve historiated initials, 8 to 11 lines high (mostly 9-line), showing the Virgin and Child (fol. 12r, border with the ancestors of Christ, Matins of the Virgin), the Resurrection (fol. 68r, Lauds of the Eternal Wisdom), the Noli me tangere (fol. 71v, Terce of the Eternal Wisdom), the supper at Emmaus (fol. 74r, None of the Eternal Wisdom), the Ascension (fol. 77r, Compline of the Eternal Wisdom), feeding the hungry (fol. 85v, Lauds of the Holy Ghost), giving drink to the thirsty (fol. 87v, Prime of the Holy Ghost), clothing the naked (fol. 89v, Terce of the Holy Ghost), lodging pilgrims (fol. 91v, Sext of the Holy Ghost), comforting prisoners (fol. 93r, None of the Holy Ghost), ministering to the sick (fol. 94v, Vespers of the Holy Ghost), and burying the dead (fol. 97r, Compline of the Holy Ghost); nineteen small miniatures, column-width, 11 to 13 lines high (mostly 12-line), showing the Visitation (fol. 18r, Lauds of the Virgin), the Nativity (fol. 24r, Prime of the Virgin), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 26v, Terce of the Virgin), the Circumcision (fol. 28v, Sext of the Virgin), the Magi (fol. 31r, None of the Virgin), the Presentation in the Temple (fol. 33v, Vespers of the Virgin), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 37v, Compline of the Virgin), Christ before Caiphas (fol. 47r, Lauds of the Cross), Christ before Pilate (fol. 50r, Prime of the Cross), the Ecce Homo (fol. 51v, Terce of the Cross), the Way to the Cross (fol. 53v, Sext of the Cross), the Crucifixion (fol. 55r, None of the Cross, border with a pelican in her piety), the Deposition (fol. 56v, Vespers of the Cross), the Entombment (fol. 59r, Compline of the Cross, the Ara Coeli (fol. 115r, prayers to the Virgin), Saint Michael (fol. 116r, suffrage), Saint John the Evangelist (fol. 117r, suffrage), Saint Katherine (fol. 118v, suffrage) and Saint Barbara (fol. 119r, suffrage); seven full-page miniatures in arched compartments within full borders, showing the Annunciation (fol. 11v, border with angel musicians, Matins of the Virgin), the Arrest of Christ (fol. 41v, Matins of the Cross), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 61v, Matins of the Eternal Wisdom), Pentecost (fol. 79v, Matins of the Holy Ghost), the Last Judgement (fol. 99v, Penitential Psalms), the Mass of Saint Gregory (fol. 113v, the Verses of Saint Gregory) and Saint Michael weighing souls (fol. 120v, Office of the Dead); contemporary blind-stamped binding of slightly bevelled wooden boards sewn on 4 thongs and covered with calf, panelled with multiple frames of triple lines, blind-stamped with tools of (a) Saint Anthony in a lozenge (type of Hulshof and Schretlen 1921, pls. II: 5), (b) a rosette in a circle, (c) a splayed eagle in a circle and (d) several very small flower heads, metal fittings (only) for two pairs of engraved silver-gilt clasps and catches, covers repaired, upper cover detached; in a fawn cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 81, pp. 178-179)
Language: Dutch; Flemish .
Scope and Contents: 19th-century notes, f.(i)r; blank, f.(i)v; Kalendar, ff.1r-10r; blank, f.10v-11r; Hours of the Virgin, ff.11v-40v; blank, f.41r; Hours of the Cross, ff.41v-60v; blank, f.61r; Hours of the Eternal Wisdom, ff.61v-78v; blank, f.79r; Hours of the Holy Ghost, ff.79v-98v; blank, f.99r; seven penitential psalms, ff.99v-106v; litany, ff.107r-111v; blank, ff.112r-113r; seven prayers of St. Gregory, ff.113v-114v; suffrages and memoriae (to the B.V.M., archangels, Sts. Michael, Peter, John the Evangelist, Antony Abbot, Sebastian, Catherine, Barbara), ff.115r-119v; blank, f.120r; Office of the dead, ff.120v-148r; blank, ff.148v-149v.
Scope and Contents: 7 of the principal sections have illuminated two-page openings, with full segmented or continuous foliate and naturalistic floriated borders on gold, coloured or plain grounds within red or black ruled frames, the same patterns and motifs being employed around each pair of facing pages. The lefthand pages contain full-page illuminated miniatures within narrow gold bar arched frames edged with blue, lavender or rose, and the righthand pages have the text enclosed within rectangular narrow gold bar frames, and are headed by a large coloured or gold foliate historiated or decorated initial on an irregular rectangle of burnished gold, or on a square coloured ground. [These large miniatures are all on disjunct leaves.]
14 pages, opening the various Hours from Lauds to Compline, have small illuminated miniatures in either arched or rectangular plain ruled frames, and the ¾ borders are of delicately painted branching scrolls of foliage on a ground of closely spaced rayed small gold disks and black penwork racemes, the borders being within a single outer red rule and being broader at the top and bottom than in the outer margin. [In several cases the instructions for the miniaturist can be seen written in a tiny cursive hand in the gutter].
The 14 sub-sections in the Hours of the Eternal Wisdom and the Hours of the Holy Ghost open with illuminated historiated initials, on coloured grounds and with the same borders as above, but three being merely decorated or illuminated foliate initials without historiation.
5 other small miniatures, in the Memoriae, on patterned coloured grounds within plain ruled frames; in this case the ¾ borders are of fine-line trellises entwined with continuous meanders of light foliage, all painted in gold, but with a few touches of colour in the form of small flower terminals and curls of foliage.
11 pages containing the beginnings of Psalms, Canticles, Lessons, and so on, have ½ borders formed by a segmented bar, in gold, rose, and blue, running the height of the text in the outer margin, and having branching tendrils with rayed gold disks and gold trefoils, forming rectangular terminals at top and bottom. 27 other pages with similar contents have yet a further form of ½ border, related to the borders in the Memoriae, though less elaborate and without ruled frames or colours other than gold.
278 small plain gold initials, on irregular rectangles of blue and rose with white penwork decoration; numerous small plain initials in blue or gold; line endings in the Litany in blue, rose, or gold featherwork; tituli in red and text rubricated.
Belonged to Margareta van Cleyburch (d. 1491), wife of Boudewyn Willemsz van Drenckwaert. -- A. D. Schinkel sale (The Hague, 21 Nov. 1864, n. 16); modern bookplate of Col. Eustace James Anthony Balfour (Burlington Fine Arts Club, illum. mss., 1908, n. 244); last belonged to Hiersemann and to Voynich. -- Obtained from the latter in 1921. (de Ricci 1935, p. 637)
ProvenanceWritten in 1491 (dated on fol. 148r) probably for Margaretha van Cleyburg (d. 1537), wife and later widow of Boudewijn Willemszoon van Drenckwaert (c. 1468-1496), bailiff and steward of Voorne; and by descent to her daughter, Catherina van Drenckwaert (wife of Jan Pauwelszoon van der Dycke), granddaughter, Margareta van der Dycke (wife of Jan van den Steen, burgomaster of Bergen-op-Zoom), and in 1578 great-granddaughter, Catharina van den Steen (wife of Jan de Langue, secretary of Brielle), all recorded inside the upper cover; A. D. Schinkel (1784-1864), of the Hague, printer; his sale, The Hague, 21 November 1864, lot 3; William Bragge (1823-1884); probably no. 54 in Burlington Fine Arts Club 1874, p. 11, lent by Bragge; his sale, Sotheby's, 7 June 1876, lot 221, to Ellis; Col. Eustace Balfour (1854-1911, younger brother of Lord Balfour, prime minister 1902-05); sale at Sotheby's, 28 July 1919, lot 99a; C. L. Ricketts, bought from Voynitch in 1921. (de Hamel 2010, n. 81, pp. 178-179)
In the borders the initials A d M and M d M of the XVIth c. owners, covering earlier initials (KC or RC). On one page, arms of the first owner (3 crescents; pastoral staff accompnaying the arms) covered by the Vaudrey arms of Franche Comté (gules emanché of 2 pieces argent); according to Mr. A. J. Collins, who has investigated very thoroughly these leaves, these are the arms of Anne de Vaudrey, seigneur de St. Phal, bailiff of Troyes (ca. 1510-1579). -- Obtained in 1922 from Maggs, who owned some other ff. of the same book (including one with arms : azure three portals or).
Physical Description: Parchment, 75 leaves, 217 mm. by 140 mm., 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 with miniature], vii 6+1 [of 8+4, lacking i and vii before fols. 32 and 38, fol. 33 added with miniature, and lacking further added leaves after fols. 31, 34 and 37 with miniatures], lacking another whole gathering after fol. 38 [once of 4 leaves, plus 2 inserted miniatures], ix 8+2 [fol. 39 added with miniature, and fol. 48 added to complete the section within a quire], x 9 [probably of 10+1, blank i probably cancelled, and lacking an added leaf before fol. 49], xi 8 , xii 6 , xiii 4 + 3 blank flyleaves at end; ruled in red ink, 20 lines, written-space 134 mm. by 81 mm.; written in dark brown ink in a lettre bâtarde sometimes with elaborate cadels in the upper margins including faces touched in coloured wash; large and small initials throughout in liquid gold on blue and brown grounds; 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, 554, 59r, 59v, 60v, 65r, 65v and 66v) and a larger 14-line miniature of Job and his family giving thanks (fol. 69v), together with suffrage miniatures showing the Meeting at the Golden Gate (fol. 71r) and Saints Michael (fol. 71v), Anthony and Sebastian (both fol. 72r), Anthony of Padua (fol. 73r), Laurence and Anne with a kneeling donor (both fol. 73v), Mary Magdalene (fol. 74r), Katherine (fol. 74v) and Margaret (fol. 75r); five fullppage miniatures, showing the Annunciation, set in a ghothic church (fol. 7r, Matins), the Visitation, before a tall gothic castle (fol. 20r, Lauds, a bit smudged), the Nativity (fol. 30r, unexpectedly for Terce), the Circumcision (fol. 33r, None), and David outside his palace, being admonished by Nathan who points to Uriah and Bathsheba, watched by a figure of Death (fol. 39r, Penitential Psalms); 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, spine gilt, parchment endleaves; in a fawn cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 84, pp. 184-185)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceOwned (1717) by Thoumin, sieur Du Bouillon, avocat fiscal du marquisat de Lassay, au Maine; ca. 1800 by Mme. Villate, at Lassay; modern English bookplate of D.P.? [On each of three piles, two issuant from the chief and one from the base, a pomegranate; on a chief three leopards' heads cabossed]. -- From a sale by Sotheby (London, 7 Feb. 1923, n. 568) to Quaritch. (de Ricci 1935, pp. 637-38)
ProvenanceThouvin, 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 Poole 24; his sale, Sotheby's, 16 December 1903, lot 383; Charles William Dyson Perrins (1864-1958), who also owned Medieval and Renaissance 30, with his bookplate, 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. (de Hamel 2010, n. 84, pp. 184-185)
Obtained in 1922 from Maggs. -- This is apparently one of the mss. owned ca. 1850 by John Boykett Jarman and injured by water during a flood of the Thames.
Obtained in 1922 from Maggs. -- Damaged by water and probably from the John Boykett Jarman collection.
Robert Hoe coll. (Cat., 1909, pp. 192-193); his sale (New York, 1912, II, n. 2494).
Physical Description: Parchment, 17 leaves, 90 mm. by 142 mm., illuminated on rectos only with copies of miniatures from two Books of Hours, showing Saint John on Patmos (fol. 1r), Saint Luke painting in his studio (fol. 2r), Saint Matthew writing at a desk (fol. 3r), Saint Mark at his desk (fol. 4r), the Virgin and Child among cherubim (fol. 5r), the Annunciation (fol. 6r), the Visitation (fol. 7r), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 8r), the Nativity (fol. 9r), the Magi (fol. 10r), the Presentation in the Temple (fol. 11r), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 12r), the Crucifixion (fol. 13r), Pentecost (fol. 14r), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 15r), a burial and angels taking a soul to God (fol. 16r), and David and Nathan (fol. 17r); bound in dark red velvet over pasteboards, paper endleaves, rebacked; in a salmon-pink cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 100, p. 216)
ProvenancePainted ca. 1858 for John Boykett Jarman; his sale (London, 13 June 1864, n. 78) to Cecil Dunn Gardner; his sale (London, 1880, n. 823) to Ellis; W. H. Crawford sale (London, 1891, n. 1661) to H. Walton Lawrence; his sale (London, 15 Dec. 1892, n. 235) to Robson. -- Obtained in 1915 from Robson, Cat. 96 (1916), n. 219.
Physical Description: Parchment, 168 leaves, 190 mm. by 122 mm., collation: i 6 , ii-xi 10 , xii 8 [of 10, lacking v-vi, 2 leaves after fol. 110], xiii 10 , xiv 8 , xv-xvii 10 , xviii 6 ; ruled in brown, apparently in plummet, 20 lines, written-space 121 mm. by 70 mm.; written in a small flamboyant semi-humanistic miniscule with some calligraphic flourishes; most opening words of prayers in capitals, sometimes in burnished gold; one- and 2-line initials throughout in alternating blue with extensive red penwork and gold with extensive purple penwork; seventeen large white-vine illuminated initials (fols. 8r, 15r, 20v, 22v, 24r, 25v, 27r, 30v, 37r, 58r, 65r, 73r, 80v, 94v, 104v, 135r and 150r); eleven half-page rectangular miniatures within full white-vine illuminated borders, showing the Nativity of Christ (fol. 7r, Hours of the Virgin), the Magi (fol. 7v, Matins), the Purification, set in a landscape (fol. 37r, Office of the Purification), the Annunciation (fol. 58v, Office of the Annunciation), the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (fol. 65r, Office of Saint Elizabeth), the Virgin and Child sending snow onto the Esquiline Hill in Rome (fol. 73r, Office of the Virgin of the Snow), the burial of the Virgin, and her assumption into Heaven, between two angels (fol. 80v, Office of the Assumption), the Nativity of the Virgin (fol. 94v, Office of the Nativity of the Virgin), the meeting at the Golden Gate (fol. 104v, Office of the Conception of the Virgin), a funeral (fol. 135r, Office of the Dead), and David in prayer in a landscape (fol. 156r, Penitential Psalms); very thumbed and some offsetting from the gold; bound in early nineteenth-century (probably English) brown straight-grain morocco, gilt edges, paper endleaves; in a fawn cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 79, pp. 174-175)
Language: Dutch; Flemish .
ProvenanceArms of Colonna (gules a column or crowned of the second) at beginning. -- Edward Quaile coll. (E. Quaile, Illuminated MSS., Liverpool, 1897, 80, p. 145, pl. XXVI); his sale (London, 1901, n. 223) to Leighton; J. Martini, Cat. 17 (1921), n. 17, and Cat. 18 (1922), n. 14. (de Ricci 1935, p. 638)
ProvenanceWritten for Giovanni Colonna (1456-1508) or a member of his family; William Bragge (1823-1884); probably no. 63 in Burlington Fine Arts Club 1874, p. 13, lent by Bragge; his sale, Sotheby's, 7 June 1876, lot 474; Quaritch cat. 31 (june 1876), no. 171, and Quaritch, General Catalogue (1877), no. 18381; Edward Quaile (d. 1900); his sale, Sotheby's, 10 May 1901, lot 223, to Leighton; J. Martini, cat. 17 (1921), no. 17, and cat. 18 (1922), no. 14, at $1,100; C. L. Ricketts. (de Hamel 2010, n. 79, pp. 174-175)
Obtained in 1912 from Tregaskis.
Obtained in 1912 from Tregaskis.
Physical Description: Parchment, 242 leaves (one blank), 125 mm. by 88 mm., collation: i 12 , ii-xxiv 10 , with horizontal catchwords; ruled in pale red ink, 13 lines, written-space 64 mm. by 45 mm.; written in dark brown ink in a neat upright humanistic miniscule; small initials in alternating red and blue, some 4-line initials in burnished gold on coloured panels with tracery in white and yellow; eight large white-vine illuminated initials, with marginal extensions (fols. 28v, 44r, 50v, 57r, 62v, 68v, 79r and 85v); five large historiated initials, the first with a full floral border, others with three-quarter floral borders, showing the Virgin and Child, three-quarter length (fol. 13r), Matins, text in gold capitals on a blue panel), a skeleton, head and shoulders (fol. 113r, Office of the Dead), David with his psaltery (fol. 173r, Penitential Psalms), Christ as the Man of Sorrows, half-length (fol. 203r, Hours of the Passion) and a cross on a hilltop (fol. 237r, Hours of the Cross); some wear; old (probably eighteenth-century) leather over pasteboards, paper endleaves, rebacked; in a fawn cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 75, p. 166)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceArms of first owners (identified by A. Van de Put) : 1. Argent three bars sable (Lotii, of Florence); 2. Argent a crescent azure and in chief a label of three points gules (Canigiani, of Florence) -- XVIIIth c. bookplate of Franciscus Aloysius Philippus (J. Gelli, Ex libris italiani, 1908, p. 168). -- Obtained in Nov. 1924 from Lathrop C. Harper, New York.
Arms of first owners, Pandolfini and Buondelmonte, of Florence, as kindly pointed out by A. Van de Put : 1. Azure three fishes in bend sinister or, in chief three fleurs-de-lis or between the points of a label of four, gules, all debruised by a canton argent in the sinister chief charged with a column or (Pandolfini); 2. Or on a mount of six coupeaux azure a cross gules (Buondelmonte). -- Belonged to L. S. Olsehki, Florence, Inv., n. 29259 (P. d'Ancona, La Bibliofilia, X, 1908-1909, pp. 48-49); Susan Minns sale (New York, 1922, n. 422) to J. Martini. -- Obtained in 1922 from Martini.
Obtained in 1923 from Tregaskis.
Obtained in 1923 from Maggs.
Physical Description: Parchment, 212 leaves, 140 mm. by 73 mm., collation, i 8 , ii 4 , iii-xx 8 , xxi 4 , xxii-xxvii 8 , xxviii 4 , with vertical catchwords, legible from the left, and alphabetical leaf signatures; ruled in pale red ink, 22 lines, written-space 100 mm. by 40 mm.; written in a widely-spaced upright humanistic miniscule, with some calligraphic flourishes at the ends of lines, rubrics in pale red; 2-line initials throughout in alternating red and green; two 5-line historiated initials, showing Saint Ambrose (fol. 63r) and a skull (fol. 164r); elaborate double-page opening on fols. 12v-13r with, on the left, a miniature of the Nativity (98 mm. by 54 mm.) in a landscape above a classical tablet "Quem virgo concepti, virgo peperit, virgo post partum quem genuit adoravit" (part of the responses for the feast of the Purification) and, on the right, the opening of the text with full border including angels and the Coronation of the Virgin in a mandorla; very worn and faded; bound in eighteenth-century Italian sheep gilt, parchment endleaves, repaired; in a green cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 87, p. 190)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceA gift from Oliver R. Barrett (1918). (de Ricci 1935, p. 640)
ProvenanceWritten in 1505 for Giovanni Pietro Visconti (1478-1515), provost of Milan cathedral; Oliver Rogers Barrett (1873-1950), Chicago attorney, who gave it to C. L. Ricketts in 1918. (de Hamel 2010, n. 87, p. 190)
Placed by Luigi Lubrano, of Naples, in a sale by Anderson (New York, 12 Apr. 1915, n. 333) to J. Martini.
A gift from Oliver R. Barrett (1918).
Obtained in 1922 from Tregaskis.
Longuemare sale (Paris, 6 Dec. 1853, n. 28); Charles Giraud sale (Paris, 1855, n. 70) to Potier for baron S. de La Roche Lacarelle; resold to Potier (Cat., 1859, n. 10); Guyot de Villeneuve sale (Paris, 1900, I, n. 16); Robert Hoe coll. (Cat., 1909, p. 191); his sale (New York, 1912, ii, N. 2481) to Quaritch; Quaritch, Cat. 357 (Feb. 1920), n. 396; Quaritch, Handlist (1923), n. 24 -- Cf. R. Portalis, Jarry (1897), p. 66.
Physical Description: Parchment, 109 mm. by 64 mm., 54 leaves, paginated by Jarry (1-80) from fol. 15r as page 1; 15 lines (including headings at the top of pages), pages written within a narrow gold border 83 mm. by 47 mm., written in brown ink usually in an upright roman script for Latin text and a sloping italic script for French, headings in colours and gold; initials throughout in red, blue and gold; six illuminated incipit pages with 3-line floral illuminated initials and floral and armorial headpieces; elaborate title-page within a rococo cartouche with double arms beneath a coronet and with swags and suspended bunches of flowers; full-page miniature on fol. 2v, showing the Virgin and Child on a crescent moon; perfect condition; bound in early nineteenth-century English orange brocade, morocco doublures elaborately gilt, watered silk endleaves within morocco borders gilt, silver clasps and catches, bound by C[harles] Smith (signed at top of flyleaf); in a fawn cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 99, p. 214)
Language: French , Latin .
ProvenanceWritten for the duchesse de Montbazon, with her arms on the title. -- Frédéric Masson coll., Paris. -- Obtained (1927) from E. Nourry, Paris. -- Cf. R. Portalis, Jarry (1897), pp. 55-56. (de Ricci 1935, p. 641)
ProvenanceIlluminated for Marie d'Avaugour, duchesse de Montbazon (1610-1657), daughter of Claude d'Avaugour, comte de Vertus, and wife of Hercule de Rohan, duc de Montbazon (1568-1654), governor of Paris, with their arms on the title and elsewhere; Frédéric Masson (1847-1923), or Paris; C. L. Ricketts, bought in Paris in 1927 from E. Nourry. (de Hamel 2010, n. 99, p. 214)
Written for Charles-Louis-Michel-André de Bossernd, baron de Schiver, capitaine au Régiment d'Alsace. -- Obtained in 1913 from J. Randon, Paris.
Physical Description: Parchment, the upper half of a leaf, 177 mm. by 287 mm., ruled in blind, 19 long lines here (probably of 35 or more), written-space here 142 mm. high (probably of upwards of 262 mm.) by 193 mm., prickings in both margins; written in a dense and spacious Carolingian minuscule, slightly backward sloping 'a' in two forms (both open and closed), headings in red, a few late medieval scribbles, upper edge creased and partly cut where it has been used to wrap around one cover of an octavo binding. (de Hamel 2010, n. 5, p. 16)
Language: Latin .
Scope and Contents: Eugippius, Excerpta ex operibus Sancti Augustini, anthology from the works of Saint Augustine of Hippo
ProvenanceObtained in 1925 from Baer.
Obtained in 1927 from Eggimann, Paris.
Obtained from E. von Scherling, Cat. 9 (1930), n. 789.
Obtained in 1928 from Ludwig Rosenthal.
Obtained in 1928 from Ludwig Rosenthal (n. 2519 in a cat.).
Physical Description: Parchment, 113 leaves, 220 mm. by 132 mm., collation: i 8+1 [first leaf, now with text, originally a blank endleaf], ii-xiv 8 ; ruled in plummet, 25 lines, written-space 160 mm. by 78 mm., prickings in outer margins only; written in a very fine upright clear Romanesque textura, headings in red majuscules, a few coloured initials; three large decorated initials (fols. 2v, 66v and 77r), 6 to 8 lines high, including faces and dragons among leafy tendrils drawn in black and infilled with red, purple, blue, yellow, etc.; bound in early nineteenth-century French calf gilt, edges mottled red, marbled endleaves, paper flyleaves; in a fawn cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 14, p. 34)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceSold in France, 10 Apr. 1818, and for 115 fr. in 1825; Joseph Barrois coll. (n. 297) sold in 1849 to the Earl of Ashburnham; his sale (London, 1901, n. 33) to Quaritch. -- Obtained in Jan. 1917 from W. M. Voynich. (de Ricci 1935, p. 642)
ProvenanceJean-Baptiste Joseph Barrois, of Lille (1784-1855), his 297 (green label on spine); the collection bought in 1849 by Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878); the fifth earl's sale, Sotheby's, 10 June 1901, lot 33; Quaritch, cat. 211 (January 1902), no. 24, and cat. 290 (June 1910), no. 448; bought by C. L. Ricketts from W. M. Voynich, January 1917. (de Hamel 2010, n. 14, p. 34)
Sent from France to England in 1789; bookplate of a member of the Carrington Family, of Ashley Folville, as identified by A. Van de Put : sable on a bend argent three lozenges of the field; an escutcheon in pretence : gules a fesse argent between three unicorns' heads argent and a bordure argent. -- Obtained from Leighton, Cat. of mss. [1912], n. 13, facs.
Obtained in 1907 from Benedetti, Rome.
Mutilated arms of first owner at beginning. Erased ownership-inscription of the Benedictines of St. Justina of Padua, at the end. -- Obtained from Leighton, Cat. of mss. [1912], n. 141.
Obtained in 1922 from Ludwig Rosenthal.
Sale of a "Gentleman in Austro-Hungary" [Gustav von Emich] (London, 20 June 1900, n. 51, facs.) to Ellis; C. W. Dyson Perrins sale (London, 17 June 1907, n. 235) to Leighton. -- Obtained in 1910 from Leighton.
Nn. 684 and 206 in XIXth c. London sales; obtained ca. 1850 by Sir T. Phillipps (n. 13576); [not traced in his sales]. -- Obtained in 1921 from W. M. Voynich.
Obtained from Ludwig Rosenthal (n. 5955 in a cat.).
From a sale by Anderson (New York, 12 Apr. 1915, n. 272) to C. L. Ricketts. -- Doubtless identical with a ms. (described as in 116 ff.) in a sale by Sotheby (London, 11 Dec. 1913, n. 481, to Parrett).
Arms of first owner : tierced in mantle ( chapé ployé ) : 1, argent semy of double-traversed crosslets and two vipers addorsed in pale; 2, tierced in mantle, in chief or two mullets gules (?), in base gules plein; 3 (in base) or plein. -- Obtained in 1921 from Davis and Orioli, Cat. 28 (1920-1921), n. 9.
Physical Description: Parchment, the upper half of a leaf, 151 mm. by 197 mm., 18 lines here (of 28), ruled in blind, written-space here 135 mm. high (of approximately 210 mm.) by approximately 142 mm.; written in a confident and calligraphic insular pointed minuscule; a piece torn from the upper outer margin; recovered from a binding of an octavo volume, with a horizontal crease and paste stain across the lower edge. (de Hamel 2010, n. 4, p. 14)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceFormerly in one of Sir T. Phillipps's scrapbooks. -- Obtained from Tregaskis, Cat. 720 (1912), part of n. 36.
Obtained in 1922 from Ludwig Rosenthal.
Obtained in 1924 from Baer.
Obtained in 1915 from P. M. Barnard.
Obtained in 1928 from Ludwig Rosenthal.
Obtained in 1915 from P. M. Barnard.
A gift from Herbert Horne, of Florence (1910), who owned one other leaf from the same ms.
Physical Description: Parchment, a cutting, 381 mm. by 147 mm., apparently one column of a 2-column manuscript, ruled in faint plummet for 30 lines, the column 95 mm. wide; written on verso only in a large angular gothic textura, heading in red, very large illuminated initial 'P' in plant stem design on a panel ground infilled with burnished gold, 141 mm. by 127 mm., with long descender bringing the full height to 370 mm.; recto blank except for late medieval table of contents. (de Hamel 2010, n. 30, p. 66)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceObtained in 1923 from Tregaskis.
Physical Description: Parchment, 48 leaves, 204 mm. by 128 mm., collation: i 8+1 [first leaf, now with text, originally a blank endleaf], ii-v 8 , v 7 [of 8, viii cancelled at end], text complete; ruled in plummet, 32 lines, two columns, each column 155 mm. by 42 mm. with 8 mm. between columns; written in a regular early protogothic textura, headings in red or lines of coloured capitals, 2-line initials throughout in red, blue or green, some with contrasting decoration; five very large illuminated initials mostly in branching entwined plant stems and including heads of dragons (10-line on fol. 24, 9-line on fols. 10r and 25r, 8-line on fol. 34v, but 20 lines high for the initial 'I' on fol. 16r); bound in early nineteenth-century mottled calf, red mottled edges, rebacked; in a fawn cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 16, p. 38)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceThe Earl of Hopetoun sale (London, 25 Feb. 1889, n. 499) to Ridler; George Dunn sale (London, 11 Feb. 1913, I, n. 535) to Maggs; H. V. Jones sale (New York, 29 Jan. 1919, II, n. 1069 A) to Martini. -- Obtained from Martini, Cat. 15 (1919), n. 10 A. Alphabet on fly leaf. (de Ricci 1935, p. 646)
ProvenanceThe earls of Hopetown, at Hopetown House, West Lothian, Scotland, and by descent to John Hope (1860-1908, seventh earl, succeeded in 1873, created marquess of Linlithgow in 1902, first Governor General of Australia); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 February 1889, lot 499, to Ridler; George Dunn (1865-1912); his sale, Sotheby's, 11 February 1913, lot 535, to Maggs (their cat. 308, 1913, no. 76, and cat. 341, 1914, no. 235); Herschel V. Jones (1861-1928), of Minneapolis, MN; his sale, Anderson, New York, 29 January 1919, lot 1069a, to Martini, with his collation note; bought by C. L. Ricketts from Martini, cat. 15 (1919), no. 10a. (de Hamel 2010, n. 16, p. 38)
Physical Description: Parchment, 158 leaves, 230 mm. by 152 mm., collation: i 6 [of 8, i-ii cancelled], ii-xx 8 , with some contemporary quire signatures in the centre of the last versos, and at least one catchword (fol. 110v, end of quire xiv); ruled in plummet, 25 lines, written-space 167 mm. by 100 mm., prickings in outer margins, script beginning above top ruled line; written in a rather untidy protogothic textura, marginal and other headings in red, large and small penwork initials throuhout in red, including a 9-line interlaced initial on fol. 1v with scrolling leafy decoration infilled with hatching, and a 6-line initial on fol. 84v; many contemporary corrections and notes and other signs of extensive use, lower half of last leaf cut away; contemporary binding of square-edged wooden boards flush with the text block and sewn onto 3 double thongs, covered with tawed skin, residue of dangling book markers of tawed leather, upper cover with traces of a late medieval title written directly onto the surface (as on fol. 1v, including pressmark 'B 13' or possibly 'D 13'), grooves for 2 clasps once on edge of the lower cover fitting over corresponding metal pins in the centre of the upper cover, and a massive metal chain of 11 links attached to a hasp at the top of the lower cover; binding worn, upper cover detached; in a fawn cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 22, p. 50)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceBelonged (XIIIth c.) to the church of St. Mary at Steinfelt; Leander van Ess coll., Darmstadt (n. 26), bought in 1824 by Sir T. Phillipps (n. 409); his sale (London, 1910, n. 660) to Francis Edwards, from whom it was obtained in 1910 by C. L. Ricketts. (de Ricci 1935, p. 647)
ProvenanceThe Premonstratensian abbey of Steinfeld, near Cologne, founded in 1130 and suppressed in 1802, with the contemporary inscription and curse against theft on fol. 1r, "liber [ecclesie sancte] marie de st[einfelt] Si quis abstulerit anathema sit amen", and the late medieval inscription on fol. 158v, "Liber Eccl[esi]e S[anc] te marie virginis in steinfelt" (the last two words in slightly paler ink); other inscriptions include the numbers 255 and N. 14 and a note on fol. 1r dated 1447 recording an outbreak of the plague in the houses of Heinrich, count of Nassau, lasting from Michaelmas (29 September, 1446 presumably) to the feast of Saint John the Baptist (24 June the following year); Dr. Leander van Ess (1772-1847), of Darmstadt, his no. 26 (label on spine); Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), bought with the van Ess library in 1824, his MS 409, with his stencilled crest; his sale, Sotheby's, 9 June 1910, lot 660, to Edwards; bought by C. L. Ricketts. (de Hamel 2010, n. 22, p. 50)
Erased ownership-inscription at end. -- Obtained in 1911 from J. Martini (not in his catalogues).
Obtained in 1926 from Leighton.
Obtained in 1907 from T. De Marinis, Florence.
Physical Description: Paper and parchment (mostly paper, the outer bifolia of each quire on parchment, with parchment sewing-guards in each centre fold), 244 leaves, 291 mm. by 200 mm., collation: i-ix 12 , x 11 [of 12, lacking xii, after fol. 119], xi 12 , xii 12+1 [fol. 134 added, with full-page coloured drawing], xiii-xv 12 , xvi 11 [of 12, lacking viii, after 187], xvii 12 , xviii 11 [of 12, lacking xii, after fol. 214, doubtless blank], xix-xx 12 , xxi 6 [perhaps of 12, perhaps lacking vii-xii at end], with horizontal catchwords; 2 columns, ruled with bounding lines only, 26-40 lines (mostly 33-34 lines), each column 187 mm. by 57 mm. with 14 mm. between columns; written by several scribes in cursive bookhands, headings and rubrication in red, large and small initials throughout in red; a few initials in red and blue with penwork in both colours; twenty-five large historiated initials, showing a pelican in her piety (fol. 5r), a phoneix on a pyre (fol. 11v), " cirkarin ", the guardian, standing with her hand raised to her lips (fol. 14v), " schaffnerin ", the procurator, seated on a bench, windows behind (fol. 18r), " kellerin ", the cellarer, with jug and decanter, doors behind (fol. 20v), " küsterin ", the sacristan, pulling a bell rope (fol. 23r), " sengerin ", the cantor, pointing to a book on a lectern (fol. 29r), two nuns and a laywoman, listening to a bell over a window (fol. 34r), " siechenmeisterin ", the infirmarer, at the bedside of an ill nun (fol. 50r), " novitzenmeistrin ", the novice mistress and novice master, instructing a new nun (fol. 59v), " ratwestern ", the prioress and her council of four advisors (fol. 87r), " baummeistrin ", the building mistress instructing a labourer on a construction site (fol. 88r), " gewandmaistrin ", the wardrobe mistress dying or washing garments (fol. 93r), " küchinmeistrin ", the cook with a pot over the fire (fol. 96v), " tischdienerin ", a serving nun bringing a tray of food to two nuns at table (fol. 102v), " correctrix " and " leserin ", the director of reading and the lector, seated in chairs before a book on a lectern (fol. 105r), the lector reading during a meal in the nuns' refectory (fol. 106v), " briefmeistrin ", the archivist, two nuns with scrolls in a wall cupboard (fol. 108r), " dormiterin ", the dormitory mistress standing at the foot of the night stairs with a key (fol. 110r), " gartnerin ", the garden mistress sowing beds of flowers and herbs (fol. 112r), Friar Johann Meyer kneeling before the Christ Child (fol. 116r), a laybrother with a rosary (fol. 116v), a nun and a laywoman being commended to the throne of God (fol. 136v), Saint Dominic holding a convent and accompanied by eleven Masters General of the Order (fol. 172r), and a friar (perhaps Johann Meyer) seated at a lectern (fol. 215r); full-page coloured drawing on fol. 134v, 190 mm. by 138 mm., showing a friar in a pulpit preaching to a congregation of nuns, holding a scroll "Audi filia & vide & inclina aurem tuam quia [concupavit rex speciem tuam", psalm 44:11-12]; some staining, some parchment borders partly cut away, some early patches over text; contemporary binding of bevelled wooden boards sewn on 4 double thongs, covered with parchment, each cover double ruled in blind into 4 compartments enclosing saltires, blind-stamped with small lozenges with gothic letters resembling 'e' and 'b' (perhaps actually 's' and 'k' for 'sankt katherina', although it is not certain that the nuns had a bindery, cf. Kyriss 1940, pp. 35-36), metal clasps and catches on leather thongs attached from the lower cover, contemporary parchment flyleaves and nineteenth-century paper flyleaves, upper joints broken; in a brown cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 66, pp. 148-149)
Language: German .
ProvenanceOriginally belonged to the Dominican nuns of St. Catherine in Nürnberg. -- N. 620 in a (Pearson?) cat. (de Ricci 1935, p. 648)
ProvenanceThe Dominican convent of Sankt Katharina in Nuremberg (founded 1296, suppressed 1803), with their contemporary inscription inside the upper cover, "das puch gehort in das Closter zu Sant kath[ar]ein prediger orden in Nure[n] berg"; Alexander Augustus Smets (1795-1862), of Savannah, GA, bought in February 1839 (signature on fol. 1r); his sale, Leavitt, New York, 25 May 1868, lot 1461; Catalogue of a Private Library, Containing an Exceedingly Valuable Collection of Fine-Art and Illustrated Books, Illuminated Manuscripts, Original Drawings, &c, &c [identified in the Grolier Club copy as being the library of E. Tasker], Leavitt, New York, 3 March 1880, lot 620; C. L. Ricketts. (de Hamel 2010, n. 66, pp. 148-149)
From a binding. -- Mr. A. J. Collins informs us that a similar text exists in ms. Cotton, Caligula A.. II, ff. 165-206.
Obtained in 1915 from P. M. Barnard.
Obtained from E. von Scherling, Cat. 9 (1930), n. 797.
Physical Description: Parchment, a cutting, 200 mm. by 91 mm., the lower inner corner of a leaf with part of 2 columns, ruled in plummet, 25 lines here (of many more), each column 103 mm. wide with 22 mm. between columns, prickings in inner margin (and so doubtless once in both margins); written in a neat protogothic textura, headings in red, opening words of the text in red capitals, one- and 2-line initials in red, brown or blue; two large painted initials, 'D' on recto ("Duo clerici"), 75 mm. by 76 mm. with ascender bringing the full height to 133 mm., the initial in lush leafy design including a body of a dragon with a human face in its tail, and 'D' on verso ("Duo puericie"), 66 mm. by 70 mm. with ascender bringing the full height to 140 mm. (de Hamel 2010, n. 19, p. 44)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceGiven in 1912 by John W. Bradley. (de Ricci 1935, p. 649)
ProvenanceAlmost certainly from the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, and probably from the "Volumine uno, Decreta Gratiani", no. 153 in the late twelfth-century catalogue of Pontigny, no. 100 in the early seventeenth-century catalogue, no. 235 in the catalogue of 1778, no. 7 in the catalogue of 1791, and finally no. 73 in the list prepared after the sequestration of Pontigny at the French Revolution, described there as "in-folio atlantico, elegans et completus"; dismembered probably in Auxerre in the early nineteenth century; John William Bradley (1830-1916), who gave it to C. L. Ricketts in 1913. (de Hamel 2010, n. 19, p. 44)
Physical Description: Parchment, a leaf, 408 mm. by 269 mm., 2 columns, ruled in plummet, each column 311 mm. by 87 mm. with 16 mm. between columns, written in brown ink in a small gothic textura, heading in red, paragraph marks and running-titles in alternating red and blue; 2-line initials in alternating red with purple penwork; 10-line illuminated initial in colours and burnished gold, 18-line column-width miniature on recto, showing a bishop joining the hands of a man and a woman in marriage (the woman apparently reluctantly), each attended by witnesses of their own sex; contemporary marginal notes. (de Hamel 2010, n. 40, p. 88)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceObtained in 1932 from Maggs.
Obtained in 1907 from Luzzietti, Rome.
Obtained from Barroux, Cat. 24 (1929), n. 8589.
Obtained in 1915 from P. M. Barnard.
Bought at Bologna in the XVth c. -- Small modern circular bookplate of a dog's head gnawing a bone. -- Obtained from Ludwig Rosenthal (1911).
Obtained in 1915 from P. M. Barnard.
Physical Description: Parchment, a leaf, 302 mm. by 185 mm., apparently ruled in plummet (a fuzzy brown probably oxidised plummet rather than crayon), 32 lines, written-space 159 mm. by 100 mm., geginning below top ruled line; written in dark brown ink in a neat gothic textura, heading in red (and the guide words for the writer of the heading still present in cursive script at the extreme foot of the verso), running-titles in alternating red and blue capitals; a large initial 'D' on verso, 8-line, in divided red and blue with extensive penwork infill and full-length flourishing in both colours, a diagram in the outer margin of the recto with concentric triangles with their sides and corners numbered; old folio number '18' on recto; apparently once pasted down, perhaps for framing rather than for use in a binding. (de Hamel 2010, n. 33, p. 74)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceObtained in 1913 from Dr. B. L. Riese.
Seen at Florence (13 Nov. 1739) by Girolamo Lagomarsini (n. 55 of his collations); Henry Allen coll.; Samuel Allen sale (London, 1920, n. 39) to Quaritch.
Arms of the Albizzi (?) at the beginning (gules a bar or). -- Piccolomini sale (London, 17 Jan. 1840, n. 205) to H. Bohn; Henry Allen coll.; Samuel Allen sale (London, 1920, n. 30) to Quaritch for Ricketts.
Physical Description: Parchment, 204 leaves (3 modern, one blank, 335 mm. by 228 mm., collation: i 9+1 [of 10, lacking i, replaced with a facsimile leaf], ii-vii 10 , viii 9+1 [of 10, blank x cancelled, replaced with a substitute blank], ix-xix 10 , xx 3+1 [of 4, lacking iv, replaced with a facsimile leaf], with horizontal ruling not visible, 33 lines, written-space 225 mm. by 128 mm.; written in dark brown ink in a fine round humanistic minuscule, no headings, Greek words left blank and added afterwards in a more cursive hand; eighteen large white-vine illuminated initials (fols. 2v, 23v, 25r, 36r, 52v, 54r, 69r, 71r, 91r, 103v, 125v, 139r, 154r, 173r, 183v, 187r, 188r and 196v), first and last leaves in facsimile; contemporary binding of slightly bevelled wooden boards sewn on four bands, covered with brown goatskin, flind-stamped, panelled with a broad frame of multiple impressions of ropework stamps, central compartments stamped in eleaborate geometric pattern based around an 8-pointed star within concentric frames of ropework stamps and small plugs and rossettes, lacking 4 pairs of metal classps and trefoil catches (pins only remaining on lower cover), edges gilt and gauffered, rebacked, parchment endleaves replaced; in a green cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 69, p. 154)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceCount Giacomo Manzoni sale (Rome, 23 Apr. 1894), IV, n. 67; sold (Venice, 1894) by L. S. Olschki to Edward Robinson, who gave it (31 Jan. 1906) to Henry W. Poor; his sale (New York, 17 Nov. 1908, I, n. 799) to Morris; Walter T. Wallace sale (New York, 22 March 1920, n. 229) to C. L. Ricketts. (de Ricci 1935, p. 652)
ProvenanceCount Giacomo Maria Manzoni (1816-1889), Roman minister of finance, Guglielmo Libri's executor; his sale, IV, Rome, 23 April 1894, lot 67; Edward Robinson (1858-1931), classicist and later director of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, bought in Venice from L. S. Olschki, 1894, given by him on 31 January 1906 to Henry W. Poor (1844-1915), "as a sourvenir of the happy days with which I have begun my life in New York" (letter enclosed), with Poor's leather booklabel; his sale, New York, 17 November 1908, lot 799, to Morris; Walter T. Wallace (1866-1922), with his armorial bookplate; his sale, New York, 22 March 1920, lot 229, to C. L. Ricketts. (de Hamel 2010, n. 69, p. 154)
Ambroise Firmin-Didot sale (Paris, 1881, n. 3) to Maisonneuve; Samuel Allen sale (London, 1920, n. 24) to Quaritch.
Physical Description: Parchment, 74 leaves (a portion only of a once larger manuscript), 254 mm. by 161 mm., collation: i 6 [perhaps of 10, for i-iv see below], ii-vi 10 , vii 10 [misbound, the correct sequence of the leaves being 57-58 and 61-68], viii 8 [of 10, ix-x cancelled (probably blank), misbound, the correct sequence of the leaves being 59-60 and 69-74], with vertical catchwords in red ink readable from the left; ruled faintly in brown, probably in ink, 32 lines, written-space 163 mm. by 90 mm.; written in brwon ink in a small upright humanistic miniscule, Greek words originally left blank and supplied in a less formal hand in red; eight large 4- to 5-line white-vine illuminated initials, with partial marginal extensions; bas-de-page white-vine panel on fol. 1r enclosing a coat-of-arms within a wreath; names of the emperors added in a later hand, probably seventeenth-century; bound in blind-stamped brown morocco, c. 1900, by Leighton, gilt edges; in a green cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 70, p. 156)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceArms of first owner : per fesse argent and azure charged with a flame gules. -- Bought (May 1903) by Alfred Higgins; his sale (London, 1904, n. 228) to Leighton; Michael Tomkinson sale (London, 3 Apr. 1922, I, n. 878) to Quaritch. (de Ricci 1935, p. 652)
ProvenancePerhaps Michel d'Ailly, sixth duc de Chaulnes (1714-1769, but not identifiable in his sale catalogue, Paris, 19 March 1770 and following days); probably George Watson Taylor (1771-1841), M. P. and owner of plantations in Jamaica, whose sale, Evans, 20 March 1823, included as lot 463, a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript of Caesar and Suetonius, on vellum; Thomas Thorpe, cat. II (1823), no. 5745, and cat. III (1824), no. 16518; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), bought from Thorpe, his MS 2665; his sale, Sotheby's, 10 June 1896, lot 1182 ("it was at one time in the library of the Duc de Chaulnes"), unsold, re-offered 5 June 1899, lot 1107; Alfred Higgins, F.S.A. (d. 1903; bought in May 1903: he died in October), with his signature and booklabel; his sale, Sotheby's, 2 May 1904, lot 228; Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921); his sale, Sotheby's, 3 April 1922, lot 878, to Quaritch; C. L. Ricketts, bought in 1923. (de Hamel 2010, n. 70, p. 156)
Was in a London sale ca. 1820; bought by Sir T. Phillipps (n. 122); his sale (London, 1895, n. 894) to Nichols for Harold Baillie Weaver; his sale (London 1898, n. 439) to Leighton; n. 110 in a London bookseller's cat. (ca. 1900; Leighton, Cat. of mss. [1912], n. 250. -- Obtained from R. Atkinson, Cat. 19 (1916), n. 1731.
Obtained in 1915 from P. M. Barnard.
Obtained from T. De Marinis (1915).
Physical Description: Parchment, a bifolium, 273 mm. by 190 mm., very faint ruling, 27 lines, written-space 150 mm. by approximately 95 mm.; written in dark brown ink a very fine slightly sloping cancelleresca formata, headings and proper names in alternating capitals in gold and dark red; illuminated coat-of-arms within a strapwork cartouche; fol. 2v blank; stitch holes but disbound. (de Hamel 2010, n. 98, p. 212)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceArms of first owners, quarterly : 1-4, azure a lion rampant holding a quince-stalk (Sforza di Santa Fiora) ; 2-3, quarterly, 1, gules a cross argent [bordure bezanty omitted], 2-3, barry of four argent and gules, 4, or a lion rampant vert, these subquarterings beneath a chief or charged with an eagle displayed sable (Pio di Carpi). As A. Van de Put informs us, these are the arms of Paolo Sforza, marquis of Proceno, and of his wife Lucrezia Pia, daughter of Leonello, lord of Meldola and Sarsina. -- Obtained in 1915 from T. De Marinis.
Dr. Charles Chauncy sale (London, 1790, n. 3135) to Michael Wodhull [not traced in his duplicate sales]; sold (ca. 1825) by Thorpe to Sir Thomas Phillipps (n. 2798); [not identified with certainty in his sales]. -- Obtained from Ellis, Cat. 162 (1916), n. 515.
Obtained ca. 1820 by Sir T. Phillipps (n. 15); his sale (London, 1913, n. 880) to Selden; Leighton sale (London, 1918, I, n. 558) to W. Merton. -- Obtained in 1921 from Davis and Orioli, Cat. 27 (1920), n. 50.
Guglielmo Libri sale (London, 28 March 1859, n. 347) to Sir T. Phillipps (n. 16313); his sale (London, 1910, n. 303) to Quaritch. -- Obtained from Quaritch, Cat. 301 (Jan. 1911), n. 355. -- Nn. 215 and CCXL in other catalogues.
Physical Description: Parchment, 19 leaves, 343 mm. by 233 mm., collation: i 8 , ii 7 [of 8, lacking viii, after fol. 15], iii 4 [of 6, lacking iv-v, after fol. 18]; fol. 1r, partial alphabet 'A'-'F', red or blue initials with penwork in purple or red; fol. 1v, small decorated alphabet 'A'-'X', at foot of page, 'YZ AMEN VIRGO DEI", similar but smaller; fol. 24, partial alphabet 'A'-'I', similar but different penwork; fol. 2v blank; fol. 34, partial alphabet 'A'-'H', elaborate red or blue initials with extensive penwork in red and blue, infilled with liquid gold; fol. 3v, similar, 'I'-'Q'; fol. 4r, similar, 'R'-'Z' and 'Ç'; fol. 4v, border ornament (probably sixteenth-century); fol. 5r, small multiple alphabet and panel with "HIESUS" and (probably sixteenth-century) border ornament; fol. 5v, blank; fol. 6r, full-page 'O' with extremely extensive coloured penwork; fol. 6v, blank; fol. 7r, panel with "Cristus" (and "Jesus splendor" in ink) with extensive coloured penwork, including micrographic scrolls and roundels, "Jeronimus, Quocies cumque diem illud considero toto corpore contremischo sine...", " Augustinus , Multa corpora sanctorum venerant in terris quorum anime..." and "Qui cristum bene scit, satis est si plurima nescit, Hoc est nescere sine cristo plurima scire"; fol. 7v, blank; fol. 84, initials 'D' + 'E' + 'U' + 'S', with extensive penwork; folio 12v, initials 'D' + 'I' + 'O' with extensive penwork; fol. 13r, design for a page with an initial 'F' and a full penwork border, inscribed around the roundel at foot, " Guinifortus de vicomerchato mediolanensis fecit hoc opus 1450 die primo aug[ust]i "; fol. 13v, blank; fol. 14r, "MARIA VIRGO" with extensive penwork; fol. 14v, blank, fol. 15r, designs for two decorated pages of Books of Hours, both showing openings of Matins in the Hours of the Virgin according to the Use of Rome; fol. 15v, border ornament (probably sixteenth-century), one with a putto holding jewels above his head; fol. 16v, large initial 'Q' including the name left in white, "BASILIUS DE GALLIS"; fol. 17r, large initial 'M'; fol. 17v, border ornament (probably sixteenth-century); fol. 184, unfinished initial 'N'; fol. 18v, borders (probably sixteenth-century); fol. 19r, ornamental "Omnia que fecisti nobis domine in vero [iudicio]" [introit for the twentieth Sunday after Pentecost]; fol. 19v, partial alphabet 'A'-'E'; bound in old (perhaps early nineteenth-century) parchment over pasteboards, paper endleaves; in a green cloth case. (de Hamel 2010, n. 63, pp. 138-139)
Language: Latin , Italian .
ProvenanceSeen by Henry Shaw; sale of Sir Thomas Gage, and others (London, 1867, n. 457) to Ellis; sold (July 1867) by Quaritch to W. H. Crawford (cf. Quaritch, Gen. cat., 1868, p. 1080); W. H. Crawford sale (London, 1891, n. 3248), to B. F. Stevens; Robert Hoe coll. (Grolier Club exhib., 1892, n. 34; Cat. 1909, p. 167); his sale (New York, 1911, I, n. 2182) to G. D. Smith for C. L. Ricketts. -- Cf. O. A. Bierstadt, The library of R. Hoe (1895), p. 24. (de Ricci 1935, p. 655)
ProvenancePossibly owned by the renaissance writing-master Francesco Alunno (c. 1500-1556), of Ferrara, and probably acquired by Canon Giuseppe Antonelli (1803-1881), librarian of the Biblioteca comunale of Ferrara, with the pattern-books of Alunno; consigned, with one of the Alunno pattern-books, to Sotheby's, 25 June 1867, among "other properties" added to the sale of Sir Thomas Gage (who did not own this manuscript, despite what is generally said), lot 457, £52. 10s. to Ellis; Quaritch, General Catalogue, 1868, p. 1080; William H. Crawford (1812-1888), of Lakelands, Blackrock, Cork, with his bookplate inside lower cover; his sale, Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 3248; Robert Hoe (1839-1909), of New York, with his leather booklabel, his by 1892, when it was exhibited at the Grolier Club; his sale, Anderson, New York, 24 April 1911, lot 2182, to G. D. Smith, for C. L. Ricketts. (de Hamel 2010, n. 63, pp. 138-139)
Described in a French cat. (ca. 1907), n. 3, as a copy made ca. 1700.
Obtained in 1917 from Ch. Goodspeed, Boston.
Physical Description: Parchment, 222 mm. by 295 mm., 18 long lines, written in dark brown ink in a calligraphic secretary hand; the king's seal in red wax impressed beneath a paper lozengte at the foot over 4 stab holes in the parchment; signed by the king "Henry. R" at the upper left; verso blank; in a paper folder of the Morrison Collection. (de Hamel 2010, n. 96, p. 208)
Language: English .
ProvenanceAlfred Morrison coll. (Cat., II, 1885, p. 257); his sale (London, 1917, I, n. 500) to P. M. Barnard, Cat. 122 (1921), n. 245; sold by him to C. L. Ricketts.
Obtained in 1929 from Lucien Gougy, Paris (n. 769 in a cat.).
Physical Description: Parchment, a cutting from the lower border of a manuscript, 72 mm. by 383 mm., decorated with a central roundel enclosing a vignette of an artist illuminating a choirbook, on the left a rose and a rose bud and two storks with a snail and a caterpillar (which storks eat) and on the right two pinks (or dianthus, perhaps sweet william, introduced into northern Europe in the sixteenth century) and a swan and a beetle, blue and yellow backgrounds; verso with tiny traces of descenders of script including part of a 'g'; cut to shape. (de Hamel 2010, n. 97, p. 210)
ProvenanceObtained (1907) from Frederik Muller, Amsterdam.
Language: German .
Dimensions: 53 x 38 cm.
Dimensions: 18 x 12.5 cm.
ProvenanceTregaskis.
Dimensions: 35.5 x 23.5 cm.
ProvenanceRosenbach, Phila.
Dimensions: 36 x 27 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 24 x 7.5 cm.
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceFrom Ludwig Rosenthal, 1910.
Dimensions: 21 x 34 cm.
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceFrom E. von Scherling, ca. 1929.
Dimensions: 20 x 15 cm. and 20 x 16 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 28 x 20 cm.
Dimensions: 25 x 19 cm.
Dimensions: 37 x 24 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 38 x 26 cm. and 38 x 26 cm.
Dimensions: 31 x 20 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 19 x 29 cm.
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceFrom E. von Scherling, Cat. 11, Nov. 1930, n. 954.
Dimensions: 24 x 17 cm.
Dimensions: 22 x 36 cm.
Dimensions: 37 x 26 cm.
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 17 x 12 cm.
Physical Description: [With Ricketts mss. III #25 and #53] Parchment, 14 leaves, 3 bifolia partly stitched but all other leaves loose, 183 mm. by approximately 130 mm., 2 columns, ruled in plummet, 52 lines, each column 120 mm. by 37 mm. by 5 mm. between columns, script beginning below top ruled line; written in a very small gothic textura, chapter numbers and running-titles in alternating red and blue capitals with some flourishing, 2-line chapter initials in red or blue with penwork in the contrasting colour; several 4-line illuminated initials and three historiated initials, two 6 lines high, one 7-line, in colours with burnished gold and long marginal extensions; worn and fragile with some inner margins disintegrating; later inscriptions (perhaps seventeenth-century) include a supposed date "MCCL"--actually, a quite credible one--and "patrum nostrum abraham Isaac et Jacob". (de Hamel 2010, n. 21, p. 72)
Related Materials: See also Ricketts mss. III #25 and #53.
Dimensions: 12 x 10 1/2 cm.
Physical Description: Parchment, a cutting, 109 mm. by 112 mm. wiht cut-out extension bringing the full height to 167 mm., part of one column (doubtless of two), ruled in plummet, 13 lines on recto, column width 100 mm., written in a graceful early gothic textura, 2-line heading in red, recto with one capital touched in red and part of an initial in blue, verso with large historiated initial 'Q', 88 mm. by 103 mm., painted in colours and burnished gold enclosing a saint seated at a lectern, a dragon forming the initial's descender, opening words "[Q]uod fuit" in a vertical line of gold capitals to the right, all within a gold border outlined in green. (de Hamel 2010, n. 25, p. 56)
Dimensions: 5 x 6 cm.
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
ProvenancePurchased from Spencer, 1926
Scope and Contents:
Dimensions: 35 x 28 1/2 cm.
Scope and Contents:
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 36 x 25 c.
Dimensions: 35 x 25 cm.
Language: Latin .
Physical Description: Parchment, single leaf, 140 mm. by 95 mm., full-page composition on the verso within a border 115 mm. by 79 mm., a central miniature in a gently arched compartment 80 mm. by 45 mm., showing King David in profile kneeling in prayer on a crenellated terrace outside a gothic tower, a view of a street scene beyond including a woman carrying two jugs (probably in allusion to Bathsheba's bathing, II Samuel 11:2) and a man riding away on a white horse (probably Uriah the Hittite returning to Joab carrying the letter which ensures that Uriah will be killed in battle, ibid, 14-15), God appearing in the sky with the arrows of vengeance; within a full border subdivided into compartments by rustic branches including vignettes in the apertures of a couple in a boat, a merman in armour fighting a mermaid, and two ducks, other compartments including a daisy and a rose on coloured grounds; rather rubbed; recto blank; laid down on old paper. (de Hamel 2010, n. 85, p. 186)
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 10 x 8 cm.
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 25 x 15 cm.
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Scope and Contents: The grounds in each case are blue, patterned with triple dots.
Dimensions: 24 x 20 cm.
Scope and Contents: Only 9 present.
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceFrom A. Leonardon, Paris, 1916.
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 14.5 x 10 cm.
Dimensions: 14.5 x 10 cm.
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceFrom Olska, 1913
Dimensions: 21 - 14 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 22.5 x 16 cm.
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceCollection of Henry W[illiam] Poor, whose bookplates is attached.
Dimensions: 17.5 x 12.5 cm.
Language: Latin .
Scope and Contents: The leaf contains the conclusion of the chapter "De Raptoribus, Praedonibus et Incendiariis" and the beginning of the chapter "De Furtis" of the second book. The work, which was apparently first printed at Cologne in 1495, has been repeatedly reprinted. The passage contained in this leaf will be found on pp. 307-312 of the revised edition at Avignon in 1715.
Dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Dimensions: 20.5 x 15.5 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 24 x 5 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 16.5 x 12 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 26.5 x 19 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 20 x 14 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 38 x 27 cm.
Dimensions: 17 x 12 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 28 x 19.5 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 18 x 25 cm.
Dimensions: 23 x 21.5 cm: 23 x 10 cm.
Dimensions: 19 x 27 cm: 19 x 27 cm.
Language: Latin .
Sotheby, 1927.
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceGift from J. Martini, 1920.
Bought in Geneva, Switzerland, 1901, from Mincieux.
Dimensions: 20.5 x 29 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 21 x 15 cm. and 20.5 x 15 cm.
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceThe leaf on the right is from Hursemann, 1912.
Dimensions: 41 x 29 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 28 x 20 cm.
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceFrom Mr. Angelli, Rome, 1910.
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceFrom Baer & Col, 1926.
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 33 x 23 cm.
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 33 x 23 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 34 1/2 x 25 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 33 x 23 cm.
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Purchased from Luzzietti, Rome, 1901
Language: Latin .
Physical Description: Parchment, a horizontal cutting from the full width of a leaf, 220 mm. by 306 mm., ruled in blind, most of 22 lines (of probably twice that, with loss of text above and below the cutting), ruled in plummet, each column 105 mm. wide with 33 mm. between columns; written in a large round romanesque minuscule (cedilla still on 'e' for 'ae', 'f' descending below the line), headings in black or red uncials; three large decorated initials, most of 'I' and 'B' on recto and 'A' on verso in colours with decorative infill, opening letters of text in decorative capitals; formerly used as a flyleaf in a binding, with a horizontal crease a few mm. from the upper edge. (de Hamel 2010, n. 15, p. 36)
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 19.5 x 14 cm.
ProvenanceFrom Baer, 1922. N. 4.
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceFrom R. Atkinson, Lond., Cat. 44, 1921, n. 944.
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceFrom Tregaskis, 1926.
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
From Matthias, Paris, 1912
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceFrom R. Atkinson, Lond., Cat. 44, 1921, n. 944.
Dimensions: 42 x 30 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 27.5 x 21 cm.
Language: Latin .
Dimensions: 29.5 x 22 cm.
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceFrom Leighton, 1926.
Dimensions: 21 x 31 cm.
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceFrom Baer, 1926, n. 41.
Dimensions: 30.5 x 19 cm.
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceFrom Baer & Co., 1926.
Language: Latin .
Physical Description: Parchment, a cutting, 178 mm. by 123 mm., a large illuminated initial 'A' enclosing a kneeling figure of a bearded man looking up in prayer at a half-length full-face figure of Christ blessing and holding an open book, cut to shape; the gold and the halo flaked; verso with a few words of text in a rounded gothic hand (and a rubric, unusually, in blue) and music on a 4-line red stave, 30 mm. high and 30 mm. between staves. (de Hamel 2010, n. 49, p. 110)
ProvenanceCount Grigori Stroganoff (1829-1910, died in Rome), with his stamp on verso; doubtless from his sale, Jandolo and Travazzi, Rome, 18-24 April 1910; C.L. Ricketts, bought in 1911 from C.E. Rappaport, Rome.
From Scrapbook bot. of Tregaskis, 1922.
Physical Description: Parchment, 3 border strips (one now cut further into 3 pieces but reassembled), (a) 231 mm. by 52 mm., (b) in three pieces 90 + 71 + 75 mm. by approximately 62-69 mm., and (c) 233 mm. by 53 mm., painted in elaborate designs of coloured flowers and leaves on burnished or liquid gold grounds, the central strip including a roundel (cut out and loosely reinserted) showing two monkeys and a deer in a landscape, the right-hand strip including at the lower right part of an illuminated initial 'S' (this was a left border therefore), versos blank. (de Hamel 2010, n. 88, p. 192)
Language: Latin .
ProvenanceFrom the Missal of Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicini (1442-1507), who gave it to the Sistine Chapel, in the Vatican, where it was recorded in 1714; probably looted during the French occupation of Rome in 1798; the abate Luigi Celotti (c. 1768-c. 1846), who probably cut it up; his sale, Christie's, 26 May 1825, part of lot 48; perhaps William Young Ottley (1771-1836); perhaps part of lot 204 in his sale, Sotheby's, 11 May 1838; C.L. Ricketts, bought from Tregaskis.
Language: Latin .
Physical Description: Parchment, a cutting, 133 mm. by 117 mm., a large illuminated initial 'S' enclosing a three-quarter-length standing figure of Saint Stephen holding a martyr's palm and a book, two stones wounding his head, cut to shape; laid down on card, partly peeled back at the foot revealing a few strokes of text in a large rounded gothic hand. (de Hamel 2010, n. 42, p. 92)
Language: Latin .
Language: Latin .
Physical Description: Parchment, a leaf, 546 mm. by 394 mm., ruled in brown ink, 6 lines of text alternating with 6 of music, written-space 402 mm. by 258 mm.; written in large rounded gothic liturgical hand with some calligraphic flourishes, music in square neumes on 4-line red staves; calligraphic capitals with decorative penwork infill and surround; recto with large historiated initial 'V' ("Vidi dominum sedentem..."), 121 mm. by 100 mm. plus extensions, showing a half-length bearded prophet holding a banderole "GE/REM/IA. P[ROPHETA]", in colours and burnished gold with leafy extensions into teh margin terminating in gold bezants, a panel of coloured foliage at the foot of the page.
ProvenancePerhaps the Benedictine monastery of Santa Giustina of Padua; price of £24 and date "March 1920" in pencil.
Physical Description: Parchment, a leaf, 574 mm. by 415 mm., 2 columns, ruled in plummet, 18 lines, each column 420 mm. by 134 mm. with 34 mm. between columns; written in dark brown ink in a large rounded liturgical textualis, rubrics in red, music in square neumes on 4-line red staves; one- and 2-line initials in alternating blue with red penwork and red with purple and green penwork; recto with large historiated initial 'L', approximately 95 mm. by 102 mm., showing Saint Benedict wearing the Olivetan white habit, God's head appearing in the sky, all within a coloured leafy initial on a burnished gold ground with scrolling marginal extensions; old ink number '5' in lower right-hand corner and pencil number '7'. (de Hamel 2010, n. 91, p. 198)
ProvenanceThe Olivetan abbey of Santi Angelo e Nicolò in Villanova Sillaro, near Lodi.
Physical Description: Parchment, a leaf, 553 mm. by 393 mm., faintly ruled probably in plummet, 7 lines of text alternating with 7 of music, written-space 390 mm. by 267 mm., written in a rounded gothic liturgical hand with calligraphic flourishing in the second letter of the introit, rubrics in red; folio number "XXVIII" in alternating red and blue letters in the central outer margin of the recto; a small red initial on verso with purple penwork; recto with large historiated initial 'D' ("De ventre matris..."), 130 mm. by 120 mm., showing the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, Saint Elizabeth in bed reaching out towards a midwife who holds the newly born infant, in colours with some burnished gold, leafy marginal extensions bringing the full height to 315 mm.; slight wear and rubbing. (de Hamel 2010, n. 52, p. 116)
ProvenanceProbably from the cathedral of Lodi, about 20 miles south-east of Milan, Lombardy.