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THE ROTHSCHILD PRAYERBOOK, a Book of Hours, use of Rome, in ...

Renaissance
29.01.2014
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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 157

THE ROTHSCHILD PRAYERBOOK, a Book of Hours, use of Rome, in ...

Renaissance
29.01.2014
Schätzpreis
12.000.000 $ - 18.000.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
13.605.000 $
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THE ROTHSCHILD PRAYERBOOK, a Book of Hours, use of Rome, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
THE ROTHSCHILD PRAYERBOOK, a Book of Hours, use of Rome, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Ghent or Bruges, c.1505-1510] 228 x 160mm. 252 leaves, each devotion opens with a five- or six-line illuminated initial with staves of acanthus against a coloured ground, TWELVE FULL-PAGE CALENDAR BORDERS with camaïeu d'or frames with roundels illustrating major feasts, zodiac signs and full-colour miniatures of occupations of the month, FIVE SMALL MINIATURES with accompanying full-page borders, SIXTY-SEVEN FULL-PAGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURES WITH SURROUNDING BORDERS and complementary borders on the facing pages, two further text-pages with full borders, all the borders of richly varied trompe l'oeil type, some with sprays of acanthus and strewn flowers and including insects and vignettes, some with camaïeu d'or architectural surrounds with sculptural figures or reliefs, others with jewels and enamels against coloured grounds, individual borders replicate cloth of gold, peacock feathers, and on some pages the border space contains narratives to augment or complement the subject of the miniature. (Lacking four leaves, three with miniatures and one with a full-page border, slight pigment losses from the backgrounds of two miniatures, ff.120v and 124v, small smudge on the edge of a border on ff.1v, 2, 5v and 125, otherwise in immaculate condition.) Red velvet (renewed) with mid-16th-century silver-gilt cast and chased centrepieces with the Wittelsbach arms, cornerpieces, clasps and catches, leaf edges gilt and gauffered to a diaper pattern. AN ACKNOWLEDGED MASTERPIECE OF RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION. THE LAVISH AND EXTENSIVE ILLUSTRATION OF THE ROTHSCHILD PRAYERBOOK INCLUDES MINIATURES OF UNSURPASSED BEAUTY AND REFINED EXECUTION THAT ARE THE WORK OF GERARD HORENBOUT SIMON BENING AND HIS FATHER, ALEXANDER BENING (ALSO KNOWN AS THE MASTER OF THE OLDER PRAYERBOOK OF MAXIMILIAN I); THESE WERE THE MOST RENOWNED AND SOUGHT-AFTER ILLUMINATORS OF THEIR DAY. THE EXQUISITE MINIATURE WITH THE VIRGIN AND CHILD ON A CRESCENT MOON, IS ACCEPTED AS ONE OF A SELECT GROUP OF ILLUMINATIONS BY THE PAINTER GERARD DAVID PROVENANCE: 1. This is an extraordinarily splendid and undoubtedly costly production yet, like related manuscripts, it contains nothing to positively identify its intended original owner : neither arms, emblems nor portrait. One component of the Rothschild Prayerbook that might reflect the wishes of a commissioning patron, are the Suffrages to Sts Vincent, Benedict, Anthony of Padua and two prayers to the Virgin (ff.239-246v); these appear to be modifications to the manuscript as originally written and planned . They are written by a different scribe from the preceding Suffrages and the Athanasian Creed that follows them and follow a layout that makes no allowance for integral miniatures, yet the miniatures that are supplied on single leaves are by the same artists as the finest in the earlier part of the manuscript. In one of them (f.238v), the stained glass windows behind St Vincent are decorated with coats of arms, including one with a displayed eagle and a shield of gules with a chevron and three small charges or . 2. ?The house of Wittelsbach: the silver-gilt centrepieces of the binding show the lion rampant of the Palatinate and the diaper of Bavaria. Nothing supports Trenkler's suggestion in the commentary to the 1979 facsimile edition that the arms are those of Herzog Ernst von Wittelsbach and that the manuscript had a later provenance in the Palatine library. The clasps, corner- and centrepieces have been attributed to the workshop or circle of the Nuremberg goldsmith Wenzel Jamnitzer (d.1585). Several of the depicted half-length saints are shown holding books with pages-edges gauffered to the same diapered pattern as survives on the present manuscript, indicating that it was not trimmed when rebound. The binding shown in two of the miniatures is red velvet with gilt cornerpieces and clasps: it may be that this was t

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 157
Auktion:
Datum:
29.01.2014
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
29 January 2014, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

THE ROTHSCHILD PRAYERBOOK, a Book of Hours, use of Rome, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
THE ROTHSCHILD PRAYERBOOK, a Book of Hours, use of Rome, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Ghent or Bruges, c.1505-1510] 228 x 160mm. 252 leaves, each devotion opens with a five- or six-line illuminated initial with staves of acanthus against a coloured ground, TWELVE FULL-PAGE CALENDAR BORDERS with camaïeu d'or frames with roundels illustrating major feasts, zodiac signs and full-colour miniatures of occupations of the month, FIVE SMALL MINIATURES with accompanying full-page borders, SIXTY-SEVEN FULL-PAGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURES WITH SURROUNDING BORDERS and complementary borders on the facing pages, two further text-pages with full borders, all the borders of richly varied trompe l'oeil type, some with sprays of acanthus and strewn flowers and including insects and vignettes, some with camaïeu d'or architectural surrounds with sculptural figures or reliefs, others with jewels and enamels against coloured grounds, individual borders replicate cloth of gold, peacock feathers, and on some pages the border space contains narratives to augment or complement the subject of the miniature. (Lacking four leaves, three with miniatures and one with a full-page border, slight pigment losses from the backgrounds of two miniatures, ff.120v and 124v, small smudge on the edge of a border on ff.1v, 2, 5v and 125, otherwise in immaculate condition.) Red velvet (renewed) with mid-16th-century silver-gilt cast and chased centrepieces with the Wittelsbach arms, cornerpieces, clasps and catches, leaf edges gilt and gauffered to a diaper pattern. AN ACKNOWLEDGED MASTERPIECE OF RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION. THE LAVISH AND EXTENSIVE ILLUSTRATION OF THE ROTHSCHILD PRAYERBOOK INCLUDES MINIATURES OF UNSURPASSED BEAUTY AND REFINED EXECUTION THAT ARE THE WORK OF GERARD HORENBOUT SIMON BENING AND HIS FATHER, ALEXANDER BENING (ALSO KNOWN AS THE MASTER OF THE OLDER PRAYERBOOK OF MAXIMILIAN I); THESE WERE THE MOST RENOWNED AND SOUGHT-AFTER ILLUMINATORS OF THEIR DAY. THE EXQUISITE MINIATURE WITH THE VIRGIN AND CHILD ON A CRESCENT MOON, IS ACCEPTED AS ONE OF A SELECT GROUP OF ILLUMINATIONS BY THE PAINTER GERARD DAVID PROVENANCE: 1. This is an extraordinarily splendid and undoubtedly costly production yet, like related manuscripts, it contains nothing to positively identify its intended original owner : neither arms, emblems nor portrait. One component of the Rothschild Prayerbook that might reflect the wishes of a commissioning patron, are the Suffrages to Sts Vincent, Benedict, Anthony of Padua and two prayers to the Virgin (ff.239-246v); these appear to be modifications to the manuscript as originally written and planned . They are written by a different scribe from the preceding Suffrages and the Athanasian Creed that follows them and follow a layout that makes no allowance for integral miniatures, yet the miniatures that are supplied on single leaves are by the same artists as the finest in the earlier part of the manuscript. In one of them (f.238v), the stained glass windows behind St Vincent are decorated with coats of arms, including one with a displayed eagle and a shield of gules with a chevron and three small charges or . 2. ?The house of Wittelsbach: the silver-gilt centrepieces of the binding show the lion rampant of the Palatinate and the diaper of Bavaria. Nothing supports Trenkler's suggestion in the commentary to the 1979 facsimile edition that the arms are those of Herzog Ernst von Wittelsbach and that the manuscript had a later provenance in the Palatine library. The clasps, corner- and centrepieces have been attributed to the workshop or circle of the Nuremberg goldsmith Wenzel Jamnitzer (d.1585). Several of the depicted half-length saints are shown holding books with pages-edges gauffered to the same diapered pattern as survives on the present manuscript, indicating that it was not trimmed when rebound. The binding shown in two of the miniatures is red velvet with gilt cornerpieces and clasps: it may be that this was t

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 157
Auktion:
Datum:
29.01.2014
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
29 January 2014, New York, Rockefeller Center
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