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OFFICE DES MORTS, à l’usage de Bayeux, fragment d'un Livre d...

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Auction dateClassic
03.11.2020 14:30UTC +02:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Lot 6 | OFFICE DES MORTS, à l’usage de Bayeux, fragment d'un Livre d...
OFFICE DES MORTS, à l’usage de Bayeux, fragment d'un Livre d'heures, en latin, manuscrit enluminé sur vélin [Normandie, dernier quart du XVe siècle].



Important fragment d’un livre d’heures normand comportant l’Office des Morts et les Heures de la Croix et du Saint Esprit, enluminé par l’Atelier du Maitre de l’Échevinage de Rouen, prolifique artiste rouennais de la deuxième moitié du XVe siècle.



204 x 145 mm. i (papier) + 50 + i (vélin) feuillets, foliotation moderne 1-49, 16 lignes, une grande miniature, 6 bordures aux ff. 28, 32v, 35, 37v, 39 et 41v, plusieurs initiales sur fond d’or (manquent la fin de l’Office des Morts et le début des Heures de la Croix et du Saint Esprit, quelques infimes taches dans les marges, petites pertes de couleur dans la miniature). Reliure en cartonnage rouge du XVIIIe siècle (légèrement frottée).

Provenance : (1) Selon l’inscription du XIXe siècle au premier feuillet : l’évêque de St Denis et (2) Louis César de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780). On trouve cette même provenance dans un livre d’heures à l’usage de Troyes vendu chez Christie’s le 1 décembre 2015, lot 16. (3) A. Czechowski : sa signature et son timbre avec les initiales ‘A.C.’ aux ff.i et 1.



Contenu : Office des Morts, à l’usage de Bayeux, ff.1-24v (incomplet); Heures de la Croix et du Saint Esprit (manquent les miniatures) ff.25-38v; Obsecro te et O intemerata ff.39-44v ; extraits des évangiles ff.45-49v.

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