Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Cod. 100
Leuchtendes Mittelalter, Neue Folge III, Vom Heiligen Ludwig zum Sonnenkönig: 34 Werke der Französischen Buchmalerei aus Gotik, Renaissance und Barock, beschrieben von Eberhard König mit Beiträgen von Gabriele Bartz und Heribert Tenschert, Ramsen Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert 2000, S. 62.
Manuscript title: Book of Hours, Horae B.M.V. for the use of Rome.
Place of origin: Paris
Date of origin: c. 1408-10
Catalogue number:
4
Support: Vellum
Extent:
201 leaves of vellum.
Format: Small Quarto (180 x 133 mm)
Page layout:
Written space
82 x 60 mm
Decoration: 17 large miniatures; Two pages with three borders, every page bearing the beginning of a psalm with a border on the left hand side.
Binding:
Bound in old green velvet on wooden boards.
Main language: Latin and French
Contents:
Book of Hours, Horae B.M.V. for the use of Rome.
Manuscript in Latin and French in gold, blue, red and black on vellum, in Textura.
Manuscript in Latin and French in gold, blue, red and black on vellum, in Textura.
Origin of the manuscript:
- Paris, c. 1408-10: Boucicaut Master and Mazarine-Master; Pseudo-Jacquemart and a follower of the Master of the Breviary of John the Fearless.
- It is a rare and happy occasion, not yet witnessed in this century that we can offer in this catalogue two hitherto unknown complete Books of Hours illuminated in the style of the Boucicaut Master who was the most influential Parisian illuminator at the beginning of the 15th century. In this splendid book he may have worked together with his stylistic twin the Mazarine Master. They collaborated with Pseudo-Jacquemart, an artist of an older generation whose work is found in famous books of the duke of Berry. The replacement of one miniature results in the appearance of still one more interesting style, betraying a follower of the Master who illuminated the Breviary of John the Fearless.