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Lot 16
Dunois Master and St Stephen Master
Full borders on a leaf from a Book of Hours, use of Rouen [Rouen, c.1450–60]
Closed15 December 2021
Price Realised
GBP 3,500
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Dunois Master and St Stephen Master
Full borders on a leaf from a Book of Hours, use of Rouen [Rouen, c.1450–60]
A text leaf from a deluxe Hours for the use of Rouen illuminated by the Dunois and St Stephen Masters.
c.190 x 140mm, 16 lines, ruled space: c.100 x 65mm, comprising part of Matins in the Hours of the Virgin, with a gold rubric on the verso introducing the first nocturn, pencil folio number ‘25’ in the lower right corner of the recto (sewing-stations indented into the gutter edge). Provenance: (1) The parent manuscript was of the use of Rouen, and its only two surviving miniatures were illuminated by the Dunois Master and his follower the St Stephen Master. It was in an 18th-century binding and had an unidentified French(?) armorial bookplate. (2) Sold at Sotheby's, 5 December 2000, lot 62, misbound and missing many leaves (including all but two of the miniatures); broken-up shortly thereafter (a gathering of text leaves was sold at Sotheby’s, 19 June 2001, lot 13, several other text leaves were sold at Christie’s, 11 July 2002, lot 5); both miniatures sold at Christie’s, 9 December 2020, lots 27 and 28.
The rubric in burnished gold and the full borders on both sides of this text leaf show that the parent manuscript was of great luxury. The illuminators of the miniatures worked for such illustrious patrons as the Duke of Bedford, the Chancellor Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins, and Simon de Varie.
Full borders on a leaf from a Book of Hours, use of Rouen [Rouen, c.1450–60]
A text leaf from a deluxe Hours for the use of Rouen illuminated by the Dunois and St Stephen Masters.
c.190 x 140mm, 16 lines, ruled space: c.100 x 65mm, comprising part of Matins in the Hours of the Virgin, with a gold rubric on the verso introducing the first nocturn, pencil folio number ‘25’ in the lower right corner of the recto (sewing-stations indented into the gutter edge). Provenance: (1) The parent manuscript was of the use of Rouen, and its only two surviving miniatures were illuminated by the Dunois Master and his follower the St Stephen Master. It was in an 18th-century binding and had an unidentified French(?) armorial bookplate. (2) Sold at Sotheby's, 5 December 2000, lot 62, misbound and missing many leaves (including all but two of the miniatures); broken-up shortly thereafter (a gathering of text leaves was sold at Sotheby’s, 19 June 2001, lot 13, several other text leaves were sold at Christie’s, 11 July 2002, lot 5); both miniatures sold at Christie’s, 9 December 2020, lots 27 and 28.
The rubric in burnished gold and the full borders on both sides of this text leaf show that the parent manuscript was of great luxury. The illuminators of the miniatures worked for such illustrious patrons as the Duke of Bedford, the Chancellor Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins, and Simon de Varie.
Dunois Master and St Stephen Master
Full borders on a leaf from a Book of Hours, use of Rouen [Rouen, c.1450–60]
A text leaf from a deluxe Hours for the use of Rouen illuminated by the Dunois and St Stephen Masters.
c.190 x 140mm, 16 lines, ruled space: c.100 x 65mm, comprising part of Matins in the Hours of the Virgin, with a gold rubric on the verso introducing the first nocturn, pencil folio number ‘25’ in the lower right corner of the recto (sewing-stations indented into the gutter edge). Provenance: (1) The parent manuscript was of the use of Rouen, and its only two surviving miniatures were illuminated by the Dunois Master and his follower the St Stephen Master. It was in an 18th-century binding and had an unidentified French(?) armorial bookplate. (2) Sold at Sotheby's, 5 December 2000, lot 62, misbound and missing many leaves (including all but two of the miniatures); broken-up shortly thereafter (a gathering of text leaves was sold at Sotheby’s, 19 June 2001, lot 13, several other text leaves were sold at Christie’s, 11 July 2002, lot 5); both miniatures sold at Christie’s, 9 December 2020, lots 27 and 28.
The rubric in burnished gold and the full borders on both sides of this text leaf show that the parent manuscript was of great luxury. The illuminators of the miniatures worked for such illustrious patrons as the Duke of Bedford, the Chancellor Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins, and Simon de Varie.
Full borders on a leaf from a Book of Hours, use of Rouen [Rouen, c.1450–60]
A text leaf from a deluxe Hours for the use of Rouen illuminated by the Dunois and St Stephen Masters.
c.190 x 140mm, 16 lines, ruled space: c.100 x 65mm, comprising part of Matins in the Hours of the Virgin, with a gold rubric on the verso introducing the first nocturn, pencil folio number ‘25’ in the lower right corner of the recto (sewing-stations indented into the gutter edge). Provenance: (1) The parent manuscript was of the use of Rouen, and its only two surviving miniatures were illuminated by the Dunois Master and his follower the St Stephen Master. It was in an 18th-century binding and had an unidentified French(?) armorial bookplate. (2) Sold at Sotheby's, 5 December 2000, lot 62, misbound and missing many leaves (including all but two of the miniatures); broken-up shortly thereafter (a gathering of text leaves was sold at Sotheby’s, 19 June 2001, lot 13, several other text leaves were sold at Christie’s, 11 July 2002, lot 5); both miniatures sold at Christie’s, 9 December 2020, lots 27 and 28.
The rubric in burnished gold and the full borders on both sides of this text leaf show that the parent manuscript was of great luxury. The illuminators of the miniatures worked for such illustrious patrons as the Duke of Bedford, the Chancellor Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins, and Simon de Varie.
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