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Add MS 18855/1

Record Id:

032-002095472

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002095472

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100088157232.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100165145523.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 18855/1

Title:

Illuminated calendar leaves

Scope & Content:

Two double-sided leaves from an illuminated calendar by Simon Bening (b. 1483, d. 1561). The leaves were formerly bound at the end of a Book of Hours (Add MS 18855), but they were removed in 1927 and are now kept separately. Two further leaves from the same calendar are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: Salting MS 2538 and 2600 (E.4575-1910 and E.4576-1910).

Decoration:

4 full-page miniatures of monthly activities in colours with gold frames: gardening and felling trees, probably March (f. 108r); hunting, probably December (f. 108v); sheep shearing, probably June (f. 109r); hay making, probably July (f. 109v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002095472

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-002095472

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Two parchment leaves

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

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Scripts:

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Start Date:

1540

End Date:

1559

Date Range:

1540s-1550s

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 150 x 100 mm.

Foliation: ff. 108, 109.

Binding: Leaves mounted in card and kept in a box.

Custodial History:

Origin: Southern Netherlands (Bruges).

Sir John Tobin (b. 1763, d. 1851), Liverpool shipping merchant: purchased by him from R. H. Evans, London bookseller in 1833 and given to his son, John Tobin, in 1838.

Reverend John Tobin (b. 1809) of Liscard Hall, near Brighton: sold by him to William Boone, London bookseller in 1851.

Purchased by the British Museum from William Boone, London bookseller, 2 February 1852, together with seven other manuscripts.

Former Internal References:

Add MS 18855

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available at: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18855/1

Select digital coverage available at: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8381&CollID=27&NStart=18855

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1848-1853 (London: British Museum, 1868), p. 161.

Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library, ed. by Thomas Kren (New York: Hudson Mills, 1983), no. 10, pp. 79-85.

François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à Peintures en France 1440-1520 (Paris: Flammarion, 1993), p. 320.Judith Anne Testa, 'Simon Bening and the Italian High Renaissance: Some Unexplored Sources', Oud Holland, 114.2 (2000), 107-24 (p. 120).

Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, ed. by Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick (Los Angeles: Getty Museum, 2003), no. 159, pp. 483-84.

Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1550 (London: British Library, 2003), no. 137-38, pp. 152-53.

Edward Morris, 'Early Nineteenth-century Liverpool Collectors of Late Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts', in The Making of the Middle Ages, ed. by Marios Costambeys, Andrew Hamer and Martin Heale (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007), 158-87 (p. 173).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)