Book of Hours (for use in Paris). In Latin,... - Lot 15 - Giquello

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Book of Hours (for use in Paris). In Latin,... - Lot 15 - Giquello
Book of Hours (for use in Paris). In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment. France, Paris, ca. 1490-1500. With 35 miniatures, including 7 large miniatures by the Master of the Chronique scandaleuse (active in Paris from the late 15th to the early 16th century) and 28 small miniatures by the Master of Etienne Poncher (active in Paris from ca. 1490 to 1510). 133 ff, preceded by 2 ff. of paper endpapers (the front of the first endpaper is lined with red tabis) and followed by 2 ff. of paper endpapers (verso of last endpaper lined with red tabis), without calendar [collation: i1 (inclusion of a later parchment leaf), ii8, iii8, iv4, v8, vi8, vii8, viii8, ix8, x8, xi8, xii8, xiii8, xiv8, xv8, xvi8; xvii4, xviii8, xix4], a few advertisements (some cropped short), calligraphic bastard script in brown ink, text in 23 lines, ruled in pale red ink (justification: 53 x 115 mm), headings in blue and gold lettering, endpapers in red or blue with gilt decoration, other endpapers in the form of gilt woodcut on red, brown or blue backgrounds, initials in pastel shades (pink, grey, blue, mauve) with white highlights on gold backgrounds, sometimes decorated with insects, birds, flowers, fruit (1- to 3-lines high), with 35 MINIATURES (28 small and 7 large) inscribed in illuminated frames with coloured acanthus leaves, flowers, fruits, bestiary, grotesques and various insects on liquid gold backgrounds (each leaf containing a miniature is set with illuminated borders), the seven large miniatures are inscribed in gilded frames with columns. Parisian binding with fanfare (circa 1590?), red morocco, large gilt decoration with fanfare developing, from the oval cartouche, in a multitude of compartments and half compartments with twists decorated with small irons, flowers, acorns, curved irons, laurel branches, foliage, spirals of gilt fillets and dots, gilt roulette framing the fanfare decoration, small gilt dots on the edges, smooth spine decorated in the same way, clasps composed of leather and iron straps, gilt edges (some restorations). Manuscript preserved in a modern hinged red half-maroquin box with gilt lettering to spine, velvet interior (label James Brockman Binder (Oxford)). See G. Hobson, Bindings with fanfare. The problem of the closed S, London, 1935, p. 14. A pencil note states: "[...] Hobson, Rel. à la fanfare, S14 (Sale Laroche Lacarelle (1888) no. 14) + Sale G.-E. Lang, no. 36 (Ex-Nédonchel - Descamps-Scrive)...". These references to comparable bindings refer respectively to the following sales catalogues: (1) [La Roche Lacarelle (Baron de)]. Catalogue des livres rares et précieux, manuscrits et imprimés composant la bibliothèque de feu M. le Baron de la Roche Lacarelle, Paris, 1888, no. 24, binding reproduced. - (2) [Descamps-Scrive]. Descamps-Scrive Library. First part, 1923, no. 25, binding reproduced. Large margin manuscript, slightly elongated format, almost oblong. Upper spine fragile with some restorations, upper spine split for 2 cm from the bottom. Some spotting. Dimensions: 120 x 200 mm. A very beautiful binding with fanfare decoration containing a colourful book of hours. The miniatures in this very fine book of hours are attributable to two Parisian illuminators: the Master of the Chronique scandaleuse, who painted the large miniatures (ff. 2, 7v, 22, 46, 47v, 78 and 91), and the Master of Etienne Poncher, who painted the small miniatures. The large miniatures are set in architectural frames with pilasters or gilded columns. The Master of the Scandalous Chronicle is an anonymous master illuminator who was active in Paris in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. He is named by Nicole Reynaud (1993) after his most important work, the Chronique Scandaleuse de Jean de Roye, Paris, BnF, Ms Clair. 481. He worked for a princely clientele and his career is followed from circa 1493 to circa 1510. He illuminated numerous incunabula for Antoine Vérard for King Charles VIII, for whom he also produced Très Petites Heures (Drouot, 4 December 2000, lot 25). He illustrated two manuscripts for Anne of Brittany, the Description du couronnement..., kept at Waddesdon Manor 22, and the Epistres d'Ovide by Octavien de Saint-Gelais (Christie's, London, Arcana Sale, 7 July 2010 lot 42; Aguttes, Aristophil Sale, 16 June 2018, lot 18). On the Master of the Chronique scandaleuse, see Avril and Reynaud, Les manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, cat. expo. Paris, BnF. 1993, cat. 150-151; France 1500 entre Moyen Age et Renaissance, Paris, Grand-Palais 2010-2011, cat. 105, 107. The Master of Étienne Poncher owes his name to two manuscripts produced for this prelate bishop of Paris from 1502 to 1519.
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