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ROSENBERG MASTER, Hours of Guillaume II Molé (Use of Troyes), c. 1480 - 1490

ROSENBERG MASTER

Hours of Guillaume II Molé (Use of Troyes), c. 1480 - 1490

i + 128 + i, folios on parchment, with 14 modern parchment flyleaves facing leaves with miniatures (f. 1, 9, 14, 21, 36, 44, 49, 52, 59, 66, 83, 86, 103, 129), modern ten-by-ten foliation in pencil in the lower left corner, including the parchment flyleaves, 1-143 followed here, lacking 3 leaves likely with full-page miniature and text, each replaced with a modern parchment folio supplying the missing text (f. 55, f. 90, f. 130), otherwise complete, mostly in gatherings of eight (collation, excluding flyleaves cited above: i2, ii6, iii-vi8, vii8-1+1, viii-xi8, xii8-1+1, xiii-xvi8, xvii8+1-1, xviii8, xix4), with occasional catchwords, modern quire signatures (alphabetical in the outer margin), and instructions to the illuminator partially trimmed, written in brown ink in cursive gothic bookhand on 24 lines, ruled in red (justification: 85 x 55 mm), rubrics in red, 1- to 2 lines initials throughout in gold on blue or red ground, touched with gold, one-sided panel border on every text page, often with motto “en attandant,” 24 calendar miniatures framed with gold within one-sided panel border, 34 five- to eight-lines historiated initials, 13 full-page miniatures, a few flakes, one stain (f. 87), a few faces partially rubbed, one overpaint (face of the Virgin Mary, f. 35v), otherwise in excellent condition. Bound in a 20th-century polished black calf, spine re-using an 18th-century green leather title-piece lettered in gilt capitals “Officium B.V.M. Cod[ex] in me[mbranis];” leather case, the front cover embossed with a monogram “AE”, the spine lettered in gilt capitals “Horae B.V.M.” and “Troyes.”

153 x 102 mm
6 1/8 x 4 1/8 in

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Provenance

Illumination commissioned by Guillaume II Molé (d. 1507), Lyons, France;

Cooper Collection, c. 1820 (having acquired the work in Italy, according to a note previously attached to it);

H. Harvey Frost (1873 - 1969), his printed bookplate on the upper pasteboard: ‘From the Library of H. Harvey Frost’;

Sven Ericson, Stockholm;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby’s, 13 July 1977, lot 76;

Where acquired by Laurence Witten;

With William H. Schab Gallery;

From whom acquired by Elaine and Alexander P. Rosenberg Collection, New York, on 27 March 1979, MS 5. His bookplate on the upper pasteboard, with initials APR and the motif of an open window and view of the sea, commissioned from Pablo Picasso c. 1935;

Currently with Les Enluminures, Paris, Chicago & New York.

Exhibitions

New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, The Last Flowering. French Painting in Manuscripts, 1420-1530, from American Collections, 18 November 1982 - 30 January 1983, no. 100.

Literature

J. Plummer, with the assistance of G. Clark, The Last Flowering. French Painting in Manuscripts, 1420-1530, from American Collections, exh. cat., New York & London 1982, pp. 77-78, no. 100, ill. 100a-100b;

L. Jacobs, ‘The Master of Getty Ms. 10 and Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Illumination in Lyons’, The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, 1993, 21, pp. 55-83, cited pp. 56, 64-66, 69-71, 77, ill. 20, 26;

F. Avril & N. Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à peintures en France, 1440-1520, Paris 1995, cited pp. 320, 335, 359;

S. Hindman, The Robert Lehman Collection. IV, Illuminations, New York & Princeton 1997, cited pp. 39, 42, 44;

E. Burin, ‘Patrons and Illuminators in Lyons: Shaping the Manuscript Market around 1500’, Manuscripta, 43-44, 1999-2000, pp. 45-64, cited p. 47, n. 7;

E. Burin, Manuscript Illumination in Lyons (1473-1530), Turnhout 2002, pp. 96-99, no. 25, cited pp. 9-11, et passim, figs. 9, 12-14, 26, 76, 96;

F. Avril, ‘Les copies à répétition. À propos de la circulation et de la dissémination des modèles’, in S. L’Engle & G. B. Guest (eds.), Tributes to Jonathan J.G. Alexander. The Making and Meaning of Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts, Art & Architecture, London & Turnhout 2006, pp. 127-140, cited p. 132;

F. Avril, ‘Heures de [Jean ?] Molé’, in Très Riches Heures de Champagne. L’enluminure en Champagne à la fin du Moyen Âge, (ed.) F. Avril, M. Hermant, & F. Bibolet, Paris & Châlons-en-Champagne 2007, cited p. 184;

T. Lévy, Les Peintres de Lyon autour de 1500, Rennes 2017, cited p. 91, n. 10;

A. Bergeron-Foote, ‘Extrait des Heures de Drulhon-Fayete’, in B. Dunn-Lardeau, Catalogue raisonné des livres d’heures conserves au Québec, Québec 2018, pp. 84-93, no. 13, cited p. 92, n. 16.

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