HOURS OLLIVIER - Lot 157

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HOURS OLLIVIER - Lot 157
HOURS OLLIVIER [MANUSCRIT]. BOOK OF HOURS (for use in Paris) In Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment Northern France (almost certainly Paris), circa 1415-1420 ? With 5 large miniatures attributable to the Maître de la Cité des dames (or Maitre de Christine de Pisan) or his workshop, active in Paris in the first quarter of the 15th century (c. 1400-1420) 211 ff, preceded and followed by a parchment guard, some missing (between ff. 27v-28 [beginning of matins of the Hours of the Virgin]; between ff. 50v-51 [missing in matins of the Hours of the Virgin]; between ff. 65v-66 [end of prime of the Hours of the Virgin]) [collation: i8, ii8, iii3 (from 4, missing iv), iv8, v7 (from 8, missing i, certainly with a miniature), vi8, vii8, viii7 (from 8, missing i), ix8, x2 (from 4?), xi7 (from 8, missing i), xii8, xiii8, xiv8, xv8, xvi6, xvii8, xviii8, xix8, xx8, xxi8, xxii8, xxiii8, xxiv8, xxv8, xxvi8, xxvii8, xxviii4, xxix6], note that the lauds of the Hours of the Virgin, de la Croix et du Saint-Esprit are missing entirely, and the end of matins of the Hours of the Cross follows directly on from prime of the Hours of the Virgin, Gothic script in brown ink (littera textualis quadrata), two text modules, text copied on 15 lines (justification: 103 x 62 mm), ruled in pale red ink, advertisements at the end of the quires (advertisements found on ff. 8v, 16v, 27v, 34v, 42v, 50v, 57v, 75v, 91v, 99v, 107v, 121v, 129v, 153v, 161v, 169v, 177v, 201v), headings in red (several headings in French), endpapers in blue, dark red and burnished gold (hatched or fleur-de-lis motifs), numerous initials in blue or burnished gold with red or dark blue filigree decoration (1 to 3 lines high), large initials marking the major liturgical divisions in pink or blue with white highlights on burnished gold backgrounds with colored vine leaves and scrolls, large burnished gold baguettes extending into the margins (one extension ending in a superb blue dragon (fol. 105v)) and swirling scroll borders with vine, florets and bezants (three-quarter borders), 5 large miniatures in curved form (ff. 61, 64, 114, 135, 174v) inscribed within full borders of swirling foliage with vine, florets and bezants, augmented by colored acanthus leaves and flowers on green stems; the leaves with miniatures have initials similar to the other liturgical divisions, but with extensions in the form of illuminated baguettes (burnished gold backgrounds and colored foliage and flower decoration) framing the miniatures and text. Sixteenth-century interlace binding with gilded decoration, brown calf, interlace decoration forming diamond-rectangle shapes and twisted motifs, decoration sprinkled with small irons, double concentric circle motif, 5-rib spine, traces of gilded fillets and small irons in the entrenerfs, traces of (missing) clasps on the boards, gilt edges (binding damaged, leather missing from head and tail of spine, leather missing from bottom board, corners dulled, boards rubbed, but nonetheless unrestored and period binding). Size of binding: 197 x 135 mm; size of leaves: 185 x 130 mm.
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