The rest of the manuscript was lots 58 and 58A-K in the Chester Beatty Sale, Sotheby's, 24 June 1969. Sir Alfred had most of the miniatures separately mounted: six were sold in 1932 and three given away in 1939 some text leaves were also dispersed. Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968): his W Ms. Edward Arnold: bought at the Jarman Sale Arnold's sale, Sotheby's,, lot 240.Ĥ. Backhouse, 'A Victorian Connoisseur and his manuscripts: the Tale of Mr Jarman and Mr Wing', The British Museum Quarterly, 32, 1968, pp.76-92.ģ.
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Evidently with his collection when it was damaged by flooding in August 1846 Jarman had William Caleb Wing (1801-1875) retouch some of the damaged manuscripts, see J.
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John Boycott Jarman (d.1864): his sale, Sotheby's, 13 June 1864, lot 47. The extent and quality of the decoration show that both were intended for patrons of great wealth and discernment.Ģ. Its litany includes two Breton bishops, Sts Tugdual and Corentinus, indicating a patron with Breton connections. The colophon of the present manuscript, lot 22, reads 'made in the year 1408 when the bridges fell in Paris', and so was completed after Easter. Douce 144, was written earlier since the colophon reads: 'made and finished in the year 1407 when the bridges fell in Paris', dating it before the end of the year at Easter, which was on 15 April in 1408.
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That in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Ms. The same Parisian scribe dated two Books of Hours in 1408, the year the bridges of Paris were brought down by floods at the end of January.
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Paris, 1408174 x 130mm, originally of 187 leaves, 15 lines written in black ink in a gothic bookhand betwen two verticals and and 16 horizontals ruled in red, justification: 95 x 60mm, rubrics in red, line-endings in red and blue on burnished gold, initials on burnished gold with foliate infills, text pages with thin bars of burnished gold to three sides and full borders of vine leaves in red, blue and gold on painted stems with a few on hairline tendrils, miniature pages with broad bar of burnished gold with full borders of similar type, 28 rectangular gold framed miniatures (all margins stained, smudging to borders and other water damage).ġ. Read more THREE LEAVES FROM THE CHESTER BEATTY BOOK OF HOURS DATED 1408, use of Paris, in Latin and French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 1…