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Lot 85

Sale 5364 - Books & Manuscripts
Nov 12, 2020 7:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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[Illuminated Manuscripts] [Charles X] Book of Hours, use of Rouen, late 15th century

Illuminated manuscript on vellum, in Latin and French. 82 folios, complete. Foliated 1-82 in modern Arabic numerals upper right corner rectos (i6 ii-x8 xi4), 184 x 123 mm., no catchwords or signatures, justification 115 x 74 mm., written in a formal rounded liturgical hand on 23 long lines ruled in red ink, one-line initials in liquid gold on alternating red and blue grounds, similar line fillers, two and three-line initials in white on liquid gold grounds with floral infilling, text pages with borders in outer margins consisting of floral motifs, birds, and grotesques on liquid gold grounds, pages with miniatures with similar full borders, 24 calendar miniatures, 15 full-page miniatures. Small losses of pigment from the face of Eve (f. 14v); otherwise in excellent condition. 19th-century binding of blue morocco, signed on spine “Villador fecit” (“Villador made this”), gilt-tooled with royal coat of arms of Charles X, and interlocking Cs front and back , fleurs-de-lys stamps on turn-ins, white silk moiré doublures and flyleaves, with accompanying custom case, tooled in blind on rear: “par Lanthois/avec sa louanges” (“by Lanthois/with his praise”) and with this inscription gilt-tooled on the front: “Hommage de Fidelite/et de Respect/a sa Majeste Charles X/Roi de France” (“Homage of Fidelity an Respect/to his Majesty Charles X/King of France”).

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