![ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Book of Hours, Northern France, [c.1420-50]](http://images1.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2012-02/14/8470035-1-7.jpg&tmp=web300&top=0.000000&left=0.000000&right=1.000000&bottom=1.000000&dt=zoom_image "ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Book of Hours, Northern France, [c.1420-50] Sold for £6,875 inc. premium")
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
Book of Hours, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 103 leaves (wanting at least 7 others, probably bearing miniatures, from the Hours of the Virgin and elsewhere), 2 surviving miniatures with illuminated borders, 4 further pages with illuminated borders, 4-, 2- and 1-line initials in burnished gold or colours, text mainly in Latin with some prayers in Flemish, leaves at front (calendar) and rear corroded with some loss, some dampstaining and browning, one or two old repairs, inkstamp of the Abbé Haffreingue and inscription 'Alberto Ruskin Cook fratri amato D.D. frater amantissimus Arthurus Bernard Cook A.S. MCMXXXVII', contemporary blindstamped calf, each cover with two arched compartments with the figures of John the Baptist and Michael the Archangel, later brass strips with bosses to head and foot of both covers, two clasps, rebacked, 172 x 115mm., Northern France, [c.1420-50]
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£6,875
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Footnotes
- This Book of Hours contains a complete calendar in Flemish including several saints associated with Northern France (St Aldgonde [30 January], St Vedast or Vaast [6 February], St Walric [1 April ], St Omer [9 September, in red] and St Loy [1 December]). The two remaining miniatures depict The Good Shepherd and St Christopher (each c.58 x 66mm.). Following the Hours of the Virgin are several prayers in Flemish in a distinct but contemporary hand. The first leaf bears the nineteenth-century stamp of the Abbé Haffreingue, who supervised the rebuilding of the basilica of Notre Dame at Boulogne sur Mer (Pas de Calais).
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