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SAINT BARTHOLOMEW. Bifolium from an ILLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS ON VELLUM. [England, second half of the 14th century].

Auction 10.01.1996
10.01.1996
Schätzpreis
7.000 $ - 9.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
9.200 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 4

SAINT BARTHOLOMEW. Bifolium from an ILLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS ON VELLUM. [England, second half of the 14th century].

Auction 10.01.1996
10.01.1996
Schätzpreis
7.000 $ - 9.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
9.200 $
Beschreibung:

SAINT BARTHOLOMEW. Bifolium from an ILLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS ON VELLUM. [England, second half of the 14th century]. 2 conjugate leaves, each 277 x 200 mm. (10 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.); FULL-PAGE MINIATURE (153 x 90 mm.) divided into two registers: in the upper St. Bartholomew full-length, wearing a blue cloak with ermine lining, carrying a book and holding a flaying knife, against a diapered background in burnished gold, pink and blue with white tracery, the lower register reticulated in liquid gold on a red ground, the whole within a rectangular frame of blue, red and burnished gold with white tracery, with extensions consisting of ivy leaves and pink and blue buds on black hairline stems; 4 coats of arms: (1) argent a cross gules (occurs twice), (2) sable a lion passant gardant argent armed gules and in chief or four lozenges sable, (3) gules; 2 bar borders in burnished gold, pink and blue with extensions of ivy leaves and buds, 3 two-line initials in blue, pink and gold with white tracery, line fillers in blue and gold, in the margin dry-point drawings of a winged insect and other marks; written in brown and red ink in textura quadrata, single columns of 23 lines, justification (150 x 84 mm.). Some rubbing of colors and gold, a scratch and stains in lower field of miniature, a few smudges, some flaking of ink on verso, the gules and argent oxydized and darkened, slight discoloration along edges and in gutter, sewing holes in gutter. This fragment consists of two conjugate leaves from a Book of Hours, use of Sarum, which contained 129 leaves and 32 full-page miniatures, mostly of saints, when it was catalogued by Bernard Quaritch in 1931 ( A Catalogue of Illuminated and Other Manuscripts, Together with Some Works on Palaeography , London, 1931, no. 56). The miniature of St. Bartholomew was undoubtedly intended to accompany a suffrage addressed to the saint. Contents of the present bifolium are: suffrage to St. Matthew the Apostle, including a prayer in French, with coat of arms in the margin (f. 1r); miniature of St. Bartholomew, with coats of arms in the border (f. 1v); suffrage to St. George, with coat of arms in the margin (f. 2r-v); note concerning prayers to be said to St. Denis (Seynt Dyonysse) and his mother for protection from the "swetyng sycknys," added in English by a late 15th--early 16th century hand (f. 2v). The highly unusual composition of the miniature, which is also characteristic of others from the same manuscript, has called forth several possible explanations: that the figures were copied to size from a pattern book offering designs too small for the space available, that the lower register was meant to represent a floor, or that the pictures were executed first and the lower half of the page was intended for text. The last possibility is excluded by the present miniature, since the instructions for the miniaturist, the syllable "barth," as well as another shorter phrase, now blurred, are visible under the red field of the lower register. The presence under the same field of nine gold dots arranged in an elongated oval and a horizontal gold bar suggest that another miniature was originally planned for this space. In the full manuscript, borders surrounding several of the miniatures contained the letters "k, n, e, y, f, t," which have been taken to signify the initial letters of a motto or a form of the name Knyvett. On one flyleaf of the codex was found the inscription: "Thys is mystrys marys boke. G."; and on another, "Marset Alouf: A mon poer ie voil voo pleser." Of the five coats of arms found in the original manuscript three appear on this bifolium. When the codex was described by Quaritch in 1931 the bookplate of Thomas Boycott, 1761, as well as panels from a sixteenth-century binding, were preserved in the binding by Rivière. The complete codex was sold by Quaritch in 1941 to H.P. Kraus, who sold it to Rudolf Wien. In 1948, this bifolium (identified as St.Matthias [?]) and another miniature (St. Mar

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 4
Auktion:
Datum:
10.01.1996
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

SAINT BARTHOLOMEW. Bifolium from an ILLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS ON VELLUM. [England, second half of the 14th century]. 2 conjugate leaves, each 277 x 200 mm. (10 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.); FULL-PAGE MINIATURE (153 x 90 mm.) divided into two registers: in the upper St. Bartholomew full-length, wearing a blue cloak with ermine lining, carrying a book and holding a flaying knife, against a diapered background in burnished gold, pink and blue with white tracery, the lower register reticulated in liquid gold on a red ground, the whole within a rectangular frame of blue, red and burnished gold with white tracery, with extensions consisting of ivy leaves and pink and blue buds on black hairline stems; 4 coats of arms: (1) argent a cross gules (occurs twice), (2) sable a lion passant gardant argent armed gules and in chief or four lozenges sable, (3) gules; 2 bar borders in burnished gold, pink and blue with extensions of ivy leaves and buds, 3 two-line initials in blue, pink and gold with white tracery, line fillers in blue and gold, in the margin dry-point drawings of a winged insect and other marks; written in brown and red ink in textura quadrata, single columns of 23 lines, justification (150 x 84 mm.). Some rubbing of colors and gold, a scratch and stains in lower field of miniature, a few smudges, some flaking of ink on verso, the gules and argent oxydized and darkened, slight discoloration along edges and in gutter, sewing holes in gutter. This fragment consists of two conjugate leaves from a Book of Hours, use of Sarum, which contained 129 leaves and 32 full-page miniatures, mostly of saints, when it was catalogued by Bernard Quaritch in 1931 ( A Catalogue of Illuminated and Other Manuscripts, Together with Some Works on Palaeography , London, 1931, no. 56). The miniature of St. Bartholomew was undoubtedly intended to accompany a suffrage addressed to the saint. Contents of the present bifolium are: suffrage to St. Matthew the Apostle, including a prayer in French, with coat of arms in the margin (f. 1r); miniature of St. Bartholomew, with coats of arms in the border (f. 1v); suffrage to St. George, with coat of arms in the margin (f. 2r-v); note concerning prayers to be said to St. Denis (Seynt Dyonysse) and his mother for protection from the "swetyng sycknys," added in English by a late 15th--early 16th century hand (f. 2v). The highly unusual composition of the miniature, which is also characteristic of others from the same manuscript, has called forth several possible explanations: that the figures were copied to size from a pattern book offering designs too small for the space available, that the lower register was meant to represent a floor, or that the pictures were executed first and the lower half of the page was intended for text. The last possibility is excluded by the present miniature, since the instructions for the miniaturist, the syllable "barth," as well as another shorter phrase, now blurred, are visible under the red field of the lower register. The presence under the same field of nine gold dots arranged in an elongated oval and a horizontal gold bar suggest that another miniature was originally planned for this space. In the full manuscript, borders surrounding several of the miniatures contained the letters "k, n, e, y, f, t," which have been taken to signify the initial letters of a motto or a form of the name Knyvett. On one flyleaf of the codex was found the inscription: "Thys is mystrys marys boke. G."; and on another, "Marset Alouf: A mon poer ie voil voo pleser." Of the five coats of arms found in the original manuscript three appear on this bifolium. When the codex was described by Quaritch in 1931 the bookplate of Thomas Boycott, 1761, as well as panels from a sixteenth-century binding, were preserved in the binding by Rivière. The complete codex was sold by Quaritch in 1941 to H.P. Kraus, who sold it to Rudolf Wien. In 1948, this bifolium (identified as St.Matthias [?]) and another miniature (St. Mar

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 4
Auktion:
Datum:
10.01.1996
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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