Book of Hours (Use of Rome) – Fragment
Parchment · 5 fragments · 1405 – 1408 CE · Paris, France · 175 x 130 mmF-4cvk
Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Art Museum, y1979-39, y1979-40, y1979-41, y1979-42, y1979-43, 69, 83, 159, 164, 167
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- F-pcc1: Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Art Museum, y1979-40, f. 83 (Fragment)
- F-r6wt: Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Art Museum, y1979-43, f. 167 (Fragment)
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Text Language
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Persons
Beatty, Alfred Chester
(Fragmentator)
Boucicaut Master
(Illuminator)
Edward Arnold, 1890-1956
(Previous Owner)
Folio Fine Art Ltd
(Seller)
Jarman, John Boykett
(Previous Owner)
Maître de la Mazarine
(Illuminator)
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
(Seller)
Thomas, Alan Gradon
(Seller)
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Provenance:
London
Origin:
Paris
Summary
Five leaves from a manuscript, once part of the royal library of France, known as the Chester Beatty Book of Hours, after the owner who dismembered it. Acquired by Harold K. Hochschild in 1931, and in 1979 gifted to Princeton University Museum of Art.
Decoration: Text framed by exquisite border decoration: enclosed on three sides by burnished gold staffs sprouting scrolling ivy vine scrolls around the margins, the leaves coloured gold, red and blue. Decorated initials alternating red and blue on burnished gold grounds, with matching line fillers.
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