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Record Id:

032-002030037

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002030037

MDARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 25698

Title:

Eleven miniatures from a Book of Hours, with verses to the Virgin Mary (imperfect) and later additions

Scope & Content:

This item comprises eleven miniatures from a late-fifteenth century Book of Hours, likely produced in the Southern Netherlands. It was originally dated to c. 1492 because the image on f. 3 includes the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick III (r. 1440-1493) and the kings of England, France and Spain and Archduke Phillip of Austria. However, the figures appear to be later additions by Caleb Wing, an associate of the former owner John Boykett Jarman (b. 1782, d. 1864) (see Backhouse, 'A Victorian Connoisseur' (1968)).

Contents/Decoration:

11 full-page miniatures with initials and full scatter-borders with flowers, insects and birds in colours with gold. The text beneath each miniature contains the opening words of verses to the Virgin Mary in French.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002030037

Is part of:

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Hierarchy:

032-002030037

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

11 parchment leaves, bound in an album.

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Languages:

French

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1470

End Date:

1500

Date Range:

c 1475-1500

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: Parchment guards: 200 x 160 mm (miniatures with border: 150 x 115 mm).

Foliation: ff. 11 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 at the end).

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. The miniatures are mounted on parchment guards with gold edging, bound together in a green velvet binding.

Custodial History:

Origin: Netherlands, S.

Provenance:

John Boykett Jarman (b. 1782, d. 1864), London jeweller and collector: his collection was damaged by flooding in c. 1846, but there is no sign of damage to the present manuscript; while in his collection, the image on f. 2 was copied by his associate, Mr Wing, artist and copyist, between 1850 and 1855 and inserted into Additional 35319 (see Backhouse, 'A Victorian Connoisseur' (1968)); bought by the British Museum at Jarman's sale at Sotheby's, 13 June 1864, lot 66 for £11 (note on f. [i]).

Administrative Context:

Netherlands, S.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

Henry Shaw, Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages: from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, 2 vols (London: William Pickering, 1843), II, pl. 66, 67.

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875 (London: British Museum, 1877), p. 224.

John A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), pp. 316-17.

Friedrich Winkler, Die flämische Buchmalerei des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts: Künstler und Werke von den Brüdern van Eyck bis zu Simon Bening (Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1925), p. 117.

Otto Kurz, Fakes: A Handbook for Collectors and Students (London: Faber and Faber, 1948), pp. 86-87.

M.J. Onghena, Die Iconografie van Philips de Schone (Brussels: Academie des Beaux Arts, 1959), no. 72, pl. XXVIII.

Janet Backhouse, 'A Victorian Connoisseur and His Manuscripts: The Tale of Mr. Jarman and Mr. Wing', The British Museum Quarterly, 32 (1968), 76-92 (pp. 77, 84, 88, 90, 91).

Ausstellung Maximilian I: Innsbruck, ed by Erich Egg (Innsbruck: Land Tirol, Kulturreferat, 1969), p. 60, no. 231 [exhibition catalogue].

James W. McKinnon, 'Representations of the Mass in Medieval and Renaissance Art', Journal of the American Musicological Society, 31 (1978), 21-52 (p. 41).

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries (Amsterdam: B.M. Israel, 1987), p. 158.

Justin Clegg, The Medieval Church in Manuscripts (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 62.

Fernando II de Aragón: El rey que imaginó España y la abrió a Europa (Zaragoza: Government of Aragón, 2015), no. 278 [exhibition catalogue].

Exhibitions:

Fernando II of Aragon, Aljaferia Royal Palace, Saragossa , 10 March 2015 - 7 June 2015

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

Exhibited: Fernando II of Aragon, Aljaferia Royal Palace, Saragossa, 10 March 2015 - 7 June 2015