564, purchased from Kraus, 1967 Schäfer sale, Sotheby's London, 28 November 2007, lot 31 Morgan Library & Museum, purchased as the gift of the B. Kraus, acquired from Breslauer, Otto Schäfer, no. Unidentified symbol/monogram: M/heart (leaf /1r) James Rutherford, probably Scottish, 16th century (?related to John Rutherford, active 1560, see Early Bookowners in Britain), inscription, in purple ink: "Libris Jacobi Ruderfaird" and "Qui scipsit scriptum capu eius sit bene (male) dictus et nomen scriptor iacob e plenu doloris" (leaf /1v-2r) and Ex libri cypher (leaf D6r) James H., 16th century, initials: I H and inscription: "Re me James h" (leaf b8r) and "Per me Jacobi Ham" (leaf E7v) George Harold Hay (1893-1967) his sale, Christie's London, 28 April 1966, lot 102, to Breslauer H.P. 116-119.įor an account of the woodcuts and a reassessment of the Jean Du Pré attribution see Tenschert, ed., Horae B.M.V., vol. Signatures: a-d⁸ AA, B-H⁸ ⁸: 120 leaves.įor typographical evidence supporting the attribution to Jean Le Rouge see Monceaux, Les Le Rouge de Chablis, pp. Printed in De Pré's types 18:71G and 18*:71G. These sources mistakenly transcribe the imprint date in the colophon as 12 September. Rockefeller Wing Asian Art The Cloisters The Costume Institute Drawings and Prints Egyptian Art European Paintings European. Otto Schäfer catalogue attributed to Jean Le Rouge (in Chablis or Troyes). The American Wing Ancient Near Eastern Art Arms and Armor The Michael C. Printing attributed to Jean Du Pré in GW. quatrevingtz et cinq faictes ipmer p athoine verard libraire demourat a paris a lymaige sainte iehan levangeliste sur le pont nre dame ou au palaiz au pmier pylier devant la chapelle ou on chate la messe messeigneurs les psides. An inscription of ownership records that in 1565 this Hours belonged to Jeanne Pettre living at Nancy.Colophon, leaf I8v: Ces presentes heures ont este acheueez le deuziesme iour de septembre. Psalmista iurta consuetudinez Sacte Romanae Ecclesiae. In addition, Pierre le Rouge in his 1491 Hours introduces images by a different artist of the sibyls set between prophets and apostles, which face the biblical images. The image shown here is the figure of Zodiac Man, in which parts of the body or bodily systems were associated with particular astrological signs. Explicit Manuale ad usum insignis eclesie Sarisburiebsis colophon, Rouen: Jacob Cousin, 1537. The artist who created the original set of images in the late 1480s is known as the Master of the Apocalypse Rose, because he made cartoons for the rose window of the Apocalypse in the Sainte Chapelle in Paris. Jean du Pré used an almost identical set in his 1495 Hours of the use of Besançon. ![]() Vérard’s Hours of 1490 contained better quality wood or metal cuts, but still not as good as those used by Jean du Pré and Pierre le Rouge, who seem to have collaborated with the same artists who designed a series of images of the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary, the Fall of the Rebel Angels, the Parable of Dives and Lazarus, and the Three Living and the Three Dead. ![]() In 14 Jean du Pré produced two much finer illustrated Hours, some of whose woodcuts were used in Pierre le Rouge’s 1491 Hours. ![]() The first illustrated Book of Hours printed in Paris by Anthoine Vérard had appeared in 1486, but with woodcuts of rather poor quality. The period of his time there coincides with the rise of the luxury printed Book of Hours illustrated by many wood or metal cuts, often illuminated, and clearly an attempt by printers to compete with the market of illuminated Books of Hours, still predominant in the 1480s. The printer, Pierre le Rouge ‘libraire du roy’, was working in Paris from about 1485 and died in 1493. It is one of the most beautifully illuminated printed books surviving in Cambridge. The Cambridge copy ends with an illuminated manuscript supplement with the text of the Passion according to St John headed by a miniature of the Mocking of Christ, and at the end a painted image of a memento mori skull and a penitential text. It is one of only two extant copies of this edition: the other, also on vellum and illuminated, is in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. This Book of Hours, printed on vellum, containing as its main texts the Offices of the Virgin Mary and of the Dead, is illustrated by 28 full-page wood or metal cuts, all of which have been illuminated.
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