Lot n° 3
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: 12 000EUR
Hours said of AUGER BOOK OF HOURS (for the use of Paris or S - Lot 3
Hours said of AUGER BOOK OF HOURS (for the use of Paris or Saint-Pol-de-Léon?).
In French and Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment.
France, probably Brittany (Nantes ?), around 1420-1430.
With 4 large miniatures attributable to the Master of Duke François I (of Brittany).
146 ff, preceded by 3 paper endpapers and followed by 2 endpapers, some missing, notably a miniature between ff. 93v-94 and missing at the end of the manuscript (collation : i12, ii8, iii8, iv8, v8, vi8, vii8, viii8, ix8, x8, xi8, xii7 (8-1, missing ii), xiii8, xiv8, xv8, xvi8, xvii8, xviii8 [certainly missing a quire or a few leaves after the last quire]), a few advertisements (ff. 68v, 99v, 123v, 131v), gothic writing in dark brown ink, headings in red, ruled in pale red ink, text copied on 14 lines (justification: 60 x 90 mm), endpapers in dark blue and pink with burnished gold and white highlights, numerous gold initials on blue or dark pink backgrounds with white highlights (1- to 2 lines high), larger pink or blue initials on gold backgrounds with colored leaf decoration and white highlights introducing major liturgical divisions, initials prolonged by baguettes and illuminated decoration in the margins composed of scrolls, bezants, flowers and colored acanthus leaves, with 4 LARGE MINIATURES of curved format inscribed in illuminated borders (gilded and colored baguettes, scrolls, bezants and gold foliage, acanthus leaves, bouquets of flowers).
Bound in glazed brown calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt motifs (fleurons, friezes, hatchings, ovals), gilt decoration on the boards formed by four spandrels at the corners with hatched irons, central medallion with ribbons and openwork irons on a hatched background, sown with fleurs-de-lis, guilloche gilt edges (binding from the very end of the 16th century, beginning of the 17th century).
Lack of leather on the spine (upper box damaged), cracks in the jaws, some leather missing on the edges, binding deserving a restoration but keeping its original elements. Leaves trimmed short in places, affecting at times the edges of the illuminated pages but not affecting the miniatures. Miniatures with a few chips or stains, not serious. Some stained leaves.
Size of binding : 100 x 142 mm ; Size of leaves : 94 x 135 mm.
Provenance: 1. manuscript copied and illuminated at first sight for liturgical use in Paris (Hours of the Virgin and Office of the Dead) but painted by a Breton artist (?) identified as the "Master of Duke François I (of Brittany)" (see König, 1982; Avril and Reynaud, 1993, p. 114 and p. 175). Moreover, it appears that these Hours were copied for a patron with Breton ties, if we retain in red on the calendar St. Yves and in red St. Nicholas (May 9) and even more so in the litanies the inclusion of the saints: Nicholas, Ronan (whose cult is very developed in Brittany), Corentin and Yves (see fol. 91v). Moreover, it should be noted that the liturgical use of Saint-Pol-de-Léon is almost identical to that of Paris and that in this case several collections noted by Drigsdhal for the liturgical use of Saint-Pol-de-Léon are found in our manuscript (these collections are indicated in green in Drigsdhal's statement).
Let us quote on this subject E. Drigsdhal: "Books of Hours for Saint-Pol-de-Léon pose a delicate problem. The use of Saint-Pol-de-Léon was from the 14-15th century identical with the Use of Paris and can only be distinguished from Paris by a great number of Breton saints in the calendar and the litany (no early source with a different office has survived or been identified). Some books of hours have been catalogued or sold as "Paris, with an unusual large number of saints from Brittany. They were beyond doubt intended for use in the diocese of Saint-Pol-de-Léon [...] Earlier manuscript books of hours testify that the adaptation perhaps had taken place already in the 14th century. A number of Breton saints in the litany is the only difference: Paule, Goluine, Joeuine, Tenenane, Senane, Tugduale (Tudguale), Brioce, Guillerme, Maclovi, Paterne, Corentine, Ronane, Cognogane, Maudete, Gildasi, Guengaloee.
http://manuscripts.org.uk/chd.dk/use/hv_poldeleon.html 2. Several inscriptions of ancient origins, from the 16th to the 20th century (upper guards). These inscriptions make it possible to follow the successive owners from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, linking the present Hours for a time to the small town of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier (dept. Ille-et-Vilaine) located northeast of Rennes.
In the order we note: "These Hours are in 1540 to the grand mother of my father Desbouexiere Auger of St Aubin du Cormier. 1698 ". - Jean-Baptiste Thomas Auger pro[cureur] of the king of St-Aubin du Cormier in 1731...". - Jean Baptiste Auger lawyer in the court in 1767 son of the previous and grandson of Me des Bouexiere and great grandson of the said Gillette Huart". - "
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