medieval manuscripts flowers book of hours

#MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS FLOWERS BOOK OF HOURS FULL#

Among them was Olivier de Coëtivy who commissioned the book of hours which gives this illuminator his name of the Coëtivy Master (Vienna, ÖNB, cod 1929).

There were several Bretons prominent at the royal court, which still looked to Paris for illuminated manuscripts despite the new centres of Tours and Bourges. From the style of the miniatures and delicately painted borders, the book was made in Paris: its calendar is largely Parisian. A coat of arms, presumably the patron's, originally appeared in the large initials on ff.25, 36, 64v and 69. Another very individual inclusion is Agrippanus, who gave his name to St-Agrève in the Ardèche, a devotion resulting from some other family association or personal event. The owner's origins in Brittany are further supported by the very rare memorials to the Breton saints Huerveus (Hervé) and Mennanus (Méen), founder of the Abbey that bears his name near Rennes the Anianus commemorated may be the Breton saint Iunan, original patron of St-Aignan between Brest and Rennes. The Office of the Virgin is for the use of Rennes as is, probably, the Office of the Dead, which is the only recorded instance of this variant (see Ottosen). Black half-morocco box.ĪN IMMACULATE MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATED BY THE COëTIVY MASTERġ. Red velvet replacing tanned leather over contemporary wooden boards, marbled paper of c.1700 lining endleaves and pastedowns, overlaid with red silk on pastedowns (lacking two clasps, rubbed, extremities worn).

#MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS FLOWERS BOOK OF HOURS FULL#

Yellow, one-line initials and line-endings in burnished gold on grounds of red and blue patterned with white, two- to four-line initials with blue staves patterned in white on grounds of burnished gold with foliate infills in blue and red, except for f.24 A BORDER ON EVERY TEXT PAGE in the outer side margin of acanthus leaves in blue and liquid gold and hairline tendrils linking small leaves in burnished gold and coloured flowers, TWELVE FULL BORDERS of similar type for the calendar, TWENTY-THREE LARGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURES in burnished gold frames surrounded by three-sided bars of burnished gold decorated with flowers or foliate designs and full borders either of similar type enlivened by birds or of compartments alternately of similar type and of naturalistic flower sprays on grounds of liquid gold (early replacement of coats of arms within large initials on ff.25, 36v, 64v, 69, some wear to a few leaves, small lightly pencilled modern annotation 'St Meen' for missing rubric f.203). ii + 238 + ii leaves: 1-2 6, 3-10 8, 11 6, 12-13 8, 14 6, 15 1 0, 16 8, 17 6, 18 9(of 8 + ix),19-21 8, 22 1 0, 23-30 8, 31 4, COMPLETE, catchwords in the lower margins of final versos, 15 lines written in brown ink in a lettre bâtarde between two verticals and 16 horizontals ruled in pink, justification: 87 x 60mm, rubrics in burnished gold or blue, text capitals touched with

BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rennes, in Latin and French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUMġ68 x 122mm.

Medieval manuscripts flowers book of hours