Livre d'heures enluminé (Paris, vers 1500-1520)

Notice créée le 2024-11-18 à 21:40 par Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani (nruffini).

Livre d'heures enluminé (Paris, vers 1500-1520)

0172

Manuscrit complet

Vers 1500-1520

Paris

Texte : “Calendar, Gospels of the Four Evangelists, the Passion by St John, Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the H. Cross and of the H. Ghost, the Seven Penitentials Psalms, Litany of the Saints, the Vigil of the Dead, prayers to Our Lady, to St John, the Holy Trinity and to different Saints as there are Nicolas, Claude, Roch, Margareth, Katherine…”.

Décoration : “14 large gold heightened miniatures in vivid colors, within Renaissance-styled architectural frames (13,5/14 x 10,5 cm), each on 4 to 9 lines of text, figuring St John on Patmos, Jesus betrayed by Judas, Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Adoration of the Sheperds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation of Jesus, Flight to Egypt, Crowning of the Virgin, the Virgin and St John on Golgotha, Pentecost, King David and Bathsheba, and Job on the dunghill. In the margins or in the text, 16 smaller rectangular representations of the Evangelists Luke, Matthew and Mark, the Piëta, the Holy Trinity, SS. Roch, Michael, John Evangelist, John Baptist, Christopher, Sebastian, Anthony, the Consecration, SS. Francis, Anne and Apolonia.”

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175 x 115 mm

118 fol.

Parchemin

Arenberg Auctions

2024-12-14

Vente Louis Moorthamers, Bruxelles, 31/03/1973, lot 133.

Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani, « Livre d'heures enluminé (Paris, vers 1500-1520) », in GUARD : Guarantee Unpreserved Archives Remain Documented, Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani et Sébastien de Valeriola (éds.), n° 0172, 2024, URL : https://guard.ulb.be/doku.php?id=notice:manuscrit:0172.