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Add MS 79763

Record Id:

032-000005532

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-000005532

MDARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 79763

Title:

Half-leaf from a Book of Hours

Scope & Content:

Containing part of the Long Hours of the Cross. Originally formed part of a now dismembered Book of Hours written and illuminated by the Master of the Brussels Initials (active Bologna, Padua and Paris, late 14^th- early 15^th century) in Northern Italy. Currently 137 out of a recorded 145 of leaves from the Hours have been located or identified. These are Add. 52539, 69865, 76763, 82729, 88889; Los Angeles, UCLA Charles E. Young Library, Department of Special Collections, R. H. & M. A. Rouse MS 32; Sotheby's, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 18 May 1996, lot 20 (now in a Japanese private collection); Sotheby's, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 14 July 1981, lot 25 (Private Collection). The present half-leaf contains text (partially erased) for the end of Vespers and beginning of Compline from the Long Hours of the Cross, and a historiated initial 'C' with the Entombment.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-000005532

Is part of:

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Hierarchy:

032-000005532

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1390

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

1390s

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Vellum. 1 folio. 110 x 170 mm, Gothic script. Historiated initial 'C' with the Entombment and extension into margins of acanthus-like foliage and large gold balls. It has been defaced: apparent scrubbing with a heavy brush has removed its text and rubrics.

Custodial History:

Owned by the Acciuaiuoli family of Florence: arms on Add. 69865 previously ascribed to the Papafava of Padua (Massimo Medica, 'Nuove trace per l'attività padovana del Maestro delle Iniziali di Bruxelles', in Parole Dipinte: La Miniatura a Padova dal Medioevo al Settecento, ed. by Giovanna Baldissin Molli, Giordana Mariani Canova and Federica Toniolo (Padua: Franco Cosimo Panini, 1999), pp. 471-79, (p. 473)); Thomas Hobart, M.D. (d. 1728): who probably acquired it in Italy; bequeathed to Sir Roger Mostyn (b. 1673, d. 1739), 3rd baronet; The Lords Mostyn of Mostyn Hall, Mostyn, Cheshire: described in the Fourth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1874), p. 350, no. 76; sold in the Catalogue of Very Important Illuminated & Other Manuscripts The Property of The Lord Mostyn ..., Sotheby's, 13 July 1920, lot 62; bought by Goetze for £35. Mrs Constance Goetze (d. 1951); sold in the Catalogue of Printed Books …, Sotheby's, 1 December 1942, lot 344; bought by [London-based book-dealer Heinrich] Eisemann, and doubtless broken-up by him.

Former Internal References:

Deposit 10188

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from Les Enluminures, see their Catalogue no. 10 (Paris, 2001), no. 27.

Publications:

Scot McKendrick, 'Dismembered, but not Destroyed: An Early Horae from Northern Italy now partly preserved in the British Library', in Quand la Peinture Était dans les Livres: Mélanges en l'Honneur de François Avril, ed. by Mara Hofmann and Caroline Zöhl (Paris: Brepols; Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2007), pp. 192-202.

Massimo Medica, 'Maestro delle Iniziali di Bruxelles', in Dizionario Biografico dei Miniatori Italiani: Secoli IX-XVI, ed. by Milvia Bollati (Milano: Bonnard, 2004), pp. 565-67.

Peter Kidd, 'UCLA Rouse MS 32: The Provenance of a Dismembered Italian Illuminated Book of Hours Illuminated by the Master of the Brussels Initials', in Medieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users: A Special Issue of Viator in Honor of Richard and Mary Rouse (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), pp. 279-91.

Massimo Medica, 'Un Illustre Committente Fiorentino per Giovanni di Fra Silvestro: Donato Acciaiuoli', in Il codice miniato in Europa: libri per la chiesa, per la città, per la corte, ed. by Giordana Mariani Canova and Alessandra Perriccioli Saggese (Padua: Il Poligrafo, 2014), pp. 355-71.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Acciuaiuoli, Family, late 14th century
Eisemann, Heinrich, bookseller in London, 1890-1972
Goetze, Constance, book collector and wife of Sigismund Goetze, d 1951
Hobart, Thomas, MD, 1728
Master of the Brussels Initials, late 14th century
Mostyn, Family, 18th century-20th century

Subjects:

Art. Illuminations and Drawings. Italian

Related Material:

Add. 52539, Add. 69865, Add. 79762, Add. 82729, Add. 88889.