muspeccoll: Manuscript Monday We recently posted about the acquisition of an illuminated processiona
muspeccoll:Manuscript MondayWe recently posted about the acquisition of an illuminated processional to mark the 100th birthday of the University of Missouri Libraries. But that wasn’t the only acquisition we made to celebrate this event – we were also able to add a wonderful 15th-century book of hours to our collection.Like the processional, this book of hours is of French origin. The litany of saints includes the names of many who were revered locally around Le Mans, which may suggest it was made for use in that city. While not quite so lavishly produced as the processional, the book of hours does include some decoration, though much of it is incomplete – spaces have been left, for example, for the addition of miniatures, but these were never executed.It is not known for whom the book was originally made – it is the sort of book that many bourgeois French men and women of the time would have owned – but various later owners have inscribed their names in it. In the 16th century it belonged to one François Pinnard, and in the 18th century to the book collector Lenormand du Coudray. The best-known of its more recent owners was John Etherington Welch Rolls, grandfather of the co-founder of Rolls-Royce.- TimBook of Hours for Dominican Use. [Le Mans?, France]: [Producer not identified], [approximately 1450]. MU Ellis Special Collections Vault BX2080 .A2 1450 -- source link
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