Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1939
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/49
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MANUSCRIPTS—continued. 123 124 DIVINE HyMNES for CHRISTMAS Day. Together with diverse Devout Meditations upon our Saviors Passion and Ressurection [dedication “To the three thrice worthy and vertuous Virgin-Sisters Mris Susanna, Judith and Hester Beckwith,” signed ‘“‘ T. S.”]. Beauti- fully written manuscript on 28 leaves, 8vo., contemporary limp vellum, c. 1630 £14 HENRY V.—ORIGINAL LETTER, addressed, ‘‘ A Treshault et Puis- sant Prince le Duc de Bourgogne,” by WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE, LIEU- TENANT of CALAIS, on the subject of sending someone of his people to receive certain payment, Escript a Caleis, 17 Nov. [1419] £5 10s This is an extremely early autograph and interesting letter to the Duke of Burgundy from the Governor of Calais. It bears the superscription, ‘‘ A tre shault et puissant Prince le Duc de Bourgogne,” with the mark of a seal. HORAE B.V.M. AD USUM ROMANUM, CUM CALEN- DARIO.—ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, in gothic characters, 190 leaves, 16 lines to a page, 8 LARGE MINIATURES in arched compartments, with broad borders of flowers, fruits and acanthus leaf decoration 1n gold and colours, 10 leaves, with three-quarter borders of floral sprays, leafy spirals, &c., large initials in colours on gold grounds and smaller initials in gold on backgrounds of various colours, calendar in red, blue and burnished gold, sm. 8vo., early calf binding tooled to grolieresque design of interlacing fillets, oval centre-piece lettered within, ‘‘ Fehanne”’ on upper cover and “‘ Denyau”’ on under cover, gilt back, g.e. (slightly worn), 15th Century £45 A 17th century note of ownership appears at end—Johanne Denyau, 1615. The subjects of the miniatures are: (1) St. John ; (2) Annunciation—Virgin kneels at a prie-dieu ; (3) King David before a desk on which is laid an open book, his harp below, the Almighty in sky above; (4) Crucifixion—two Maries on left, Jews on right ; (5) Pentecost ; (6) Mass for the Dead ; (7) Virgin and Child—Virgin nimbed and crowned in blue robe ; (8) another. The binding is of interest, as it is copied exactly from one of the series ‘‘ Les Petits Cartouches,” by Du Cerceau, this design being itself taken from the surround of one of the busts of Roman Empresses, by Enea Vico ; three other bindings with the same design are known, one of which was Lot 1440 in the Cortlandt F. Bishop sale in New York, April 25, 1938.
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