Master of Troyes, active 1390-1415, artist Bancel, é.-M., 1808-1893, former owner Church, Elihu Dwight, 1835-1908, former owner Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 1179
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Description
ff. 1-168v: [Book of Hours]: f. 3v: Rubric for the Hours of the Virgin although the text itself is no longer present; ff. 4-50v: Hours of the Passion; f. 51r-v, blank; ff. 52-74: Hours of the Holy Spirit; f. 74v, blank; ff. 75-114v: Long hours of the Trinity; ff. 115-136v: Suffrages of Michael, All Angels, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, John the Evangelist, Andrew, James the Greater, All Apostles, Stephen, Denis, Lawrence, Christopher, All Martyrs, Martin, Nicholas, Anthony abbot, Godo, Maurus, All Confessors, Mary Magdalene, Anne, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, All Virgins, All Saints, for peace; ff. 137-139: Prayers to Jesus and to the Trinity; ff. 139v-152v: 64 short prayers for the Sundays of the year and major feasts; ff. 153-154v: Prayers for various occasions; ff. 155-166v: Prayers including one to William (O Guillerme pastor bone). ff. 167-168v, blank. Book of Hours written in the early fifteenth century in France; the suffrages to Godo and Maurus may suggest Verdun as the book's destination. Span folios: ff. 1-168v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1 (ff. 1-8, ff. 1-3, singletons, ruled, but blank, except for the now inappropriate rubric on f. 3v; ff. 4-5, center bifolium; ff. 6-8, singletons, with text following correctly) 2-4⁸ 5⁸(-3, before f. 35, the opening leaf of none) 6⁸ 7⁴(through f. 51) 8-14⁸ 15⁸(-7, excised; through f. 114) 16-21⁸ 22⁶. Catchwords, when present, usually in the script of the text and washed in yellow; occasionally in a small cursive (ff. 51v, 107v). Quires and leaves signed with letters of the alphabet, a-y, and arabic numerals in the gutter. Ruled space, 97 x 60 mm; 15 long lines, ruled in a pale brown-red ink, the top line full across; pricking visible in the lower margin. Written in a gothic book hand in two sizes according to liturgical function. Decoration: Twenty-two large miniatures above 4 lines of text, both text and miniature enclosed by a U-shaped frame of narrow pink, blue and gold segments, growing out of the initial and sprouting ivy vines at the 4 corners; outer border of ivy vine with pink, blue and gold trilobe leaves. The miniatures have been attributed to the Master of Troyes by M. Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry, The Late Fourteenth Century and the Patronage of the Duke (London-New York 1967) 359; and French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry, The Limbourgs and their contemporaries (New York 1974) 407. Other decoration: 4-line initials in white-patterned pink or blue against cusped gold ground, infilled with colored trilobe leaves; 3-, 2-, and 1-line initials in alternating blue with careful red penwork, or gold with black; initials within the text touched in yellow. Jigsaw line fillers in blue and gold. Rubrics in red. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/18/2009. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound perhaps for Emile Bancel with interlaced initials "BB" by Thibaron in brown morocco with blue inlay, finished by Marius Michel; one of 2 silver fore edge clasps closing to pins on edge of top cover remains; gilt edges; parchment doublures. HM 1179. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Books of Hours France 15th century. (aat) Illuminations (Painting) France 15th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
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Provenance
The first owner was apparently named William, and may have been connected with Bourges. Belonged to E. M. Bancel; his sale, Paris, 8 May 1882, n. 9 to Ellis. In the collection of E. Dwight Church, and in his Catalogue . . . of English Literature (1909) vol. 1, n. 399 with a plate of f. 41. The Church collection was acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1911.
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