Miniature of the Massacre of the Innocents, decorated initial 'C'(onverte), and full foliate borders, at the beginning of Compline in the Hours of the Virgin. The missing miniature before f. 64 at the beginning of None in the Hours of
Miniature of the Last Judgement, decorated initial 'D'(omine), and full foliate borders, at the beginning of the Hours of the Dead. The missing miniature before f. 64 at the beginning of None in the Hours of the Virgin is now
Inscribed a copy of Petrarch's note on the death of Laura, originally written in his manuscript of Virgil, but differing in giving the date on which he heard of it as the 29th day of May instead of the 19th,
1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos; sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the
Book of Hours, Use of Rome Presumably made for a couple from the Erizzo and Priuli families of Venice: with their arms (ff. 13v and 14, respectively).Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe
Book of Hours, Use of Rome Presumably made for a couple from the Erizzo and Priuli families of Venice: with their arms (ff. 13v and 14, respectively).Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe
Book of Hours, Use of Rome Presumably made for a couple from the Erizzo and Priuli families of Venice: with their arms (ff. 13v and 14, respectively).Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe
Book of Hours, Use of Rome Presumably made for a couple from the Erizzo and Priuli families of Venice: with their arms (ff. 13v and 14, respectively).Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe
Book of Hours, Use of Rome Presumably made for a couple from the Erizzo and Priuli families of Venice: with their arms (ff. 13v and 14, respectively).Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe
Book of Hours, Use of Rome Presumably made for a couple from the Erizzo and Priuli families of Venice: with their arms (ff. 13v and 14, respectively).Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe
beginning of the letter of Jerome to Dexter. Includes 'De viris illustribus' of Jerome, preceded by the prefatoty letter to Dexter (ff. 1-18), 'Retractationes' of Augustine (ff. 18-52v), a list of letters of Augustine (ff. 52v-56), Epistulae ad Quodvultdeum of
de Cluis (Cluys), Knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and Bailiff of the Morea: purchased by him in 1475: dated inscription (f. 13); the arms of the Cluys family of Bourges and of his order (f. 11).
de Cluis (Cluys), Knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and Bailiff of the Morea: purchased by him in 1475: dated inscription (f. 13); the arms of the Cluys family of Bourges and of his order (f. 11).
de Cluis (Cluys), Knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and Bailiff of the Morea: purchased by him in 1475: dated inscription (f. 13); the arms of the Cluys family of Bourges and of his order (f. 11).
lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), no.
and Private collection, formerly New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), cat. nos.
Miniature of Vincent of Beauvais as a Dominican monk, sitting at a desk and writing his book, at the beginning of book 1, with a full border containing the Royal arms of England, with Edward IV's colours of red and
record of books in the Great Wardrobe Accounts of 1480 (see McKendrick 1994). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 26; and in the Catalogue of 1666,
of the York family with the Yorkist badge, 'Dieu et mon droit', at the beginning of chapter 1 of book 1. Includes the third volume of the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre of Jean of Wavrin, preceded by a list
Miniature of Vincent of Beauvais as a Dominican monk, sitting at a desk and writing his book, at the beginning of book 1, with a full border containing the Royal arms of England, with Edward IV's colours of red and