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Add MS 37421
- Record Id:
- 032-002053756
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002053756
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000046.0x000349
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 37421
- Title:
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Fragment from the Book of Hours (the 'Hours of Etienne Chevalier')
- Scope & Content:
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1 miniature by Jean Fouquet from the book of hours, comissioned by Etienne Chevalier (d. 1474) and therefore known as the 'Hours of Étienne Chevalier'. 47 other remaining miniatures excised from this manuscript are in the Musée Condé at Chantilly (40 miniatures), Paris, Louvre, Dépatement des Artes Graphiques, R. F. 1679 and M. I. 1093; Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. n.a. lat. 1416; Paris, Musée Marmottan, collection Wildenstein, ms. 153; New York, Metropolitan Museum, collection Robert Lehman 1975.1.2490; and Upton House, National Trust, ms. 184. Two folios of text (Psalms 129 and 142, and litanies) are in the collection of Roger and Alix De Kesel Deurle (Belgium).
The manuscript was probably produced after 1452 when Etienne Chevalier became the royal treasurer and when his wife, Catherine Budé, whose name or monograms are not included in the book, died, and before 1461, the date of death of Charles VII who is depicted in one of the miniatures (see Avril, Reynaud and Cordellier, 2011). The manuscript was dismembered in the 18th century.
The miniature depicts David kneeling in penitence before God encircled by cherubim. Psalm 37: 'Domine, ne in furore', in gold capitals on a blue ground, with the monogram 'EC' of Étienne Chevalier. The miniature was placed at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002053756
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002053756
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_37421 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1452
- End Date:
- 1461
- Date Range:
- 1452-1461
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 197 x 152 mm.
Foliation: 1 folio.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Tours, France.
Provenance:
Etienne Chevalier (b. c.1410, d. 1474), secretary to Charles VII, king of France, and from 1452 treasurer of France, written and painted for him: his monogram 'E C' in the initial 'D'(omine) with similar monograms and his full name inscribed in other extant miniatures from this manuscript. Remained in the Chevalier family until the 17th century (the last direct descendent of Etienne was Nicolas Chevalier (1562–1630), baron Crissé).
Samuel Rogers (b. 1763, d. 1855), poet, owned by him and subsequently sold at Christie's, 6 May 1856, lot 981 to John Campbell.
John Campbell, 2nd marquess of Breadalbane (b.1796, d. 1862), politician and courtier: his sale at Christie's, 4 June 1886, lot 181, purchased by the British Museum.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1906-1910 (London, 1912), pp. 38-39.
The Hours of Etienne Chevalier, ed. by C. Schaefer, pref. Ch. Sterling (London, 1972), pl. 26.
Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library, ed. by Thomas Kren (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1983), no. 19.
C. Schaefer and Ch. De Hamel, 'Du nouveau sur les Heures d'Etienne Chevalier illustrées par Fouquet', Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1981), 193-99.
François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à Peintures en France 1440-1520 (Paris: Flammarion, 1993), no. 68a [exhibition catalogue].
Christopher De Hamel, The 'Rogers' Leaf of the Hoursof Etienne Chevalier', in Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters, ed. by Michelle P. Brown and Scot McKendrick (London: British Library, 1998), pp. 250-60, pl. 5.
François Avril, Jean Fouquet, peintre et enlumineur du XVe siècle (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2003), pp. 206, 208.
Nicole Reynaud, Jean Fouquet: Les Heures d'Etienne Chevalier (Paris: Phaton, 2006).
François Avril, Nicole Reynaus and Dominique Cordellier, Les enluminures du Louvre: Moyen âge et renaissance (Paris: Louvre, 2011), p. 170.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)