Skip to content
Go to Grisebach homepage

Lot

304

Master of the Rouen Échevinage (circle)

Book of Hours after the Use of Rouen. Manuscript with 13 illuminations. Circa 1465–1470

Handwriting on vellum, illuminated / leather binding presumably 18th century. 8°.
This picture shows the following artwork:  Master of the Rouen Échevinage (circle). Book of Hours after the Use of Rouen. Manuscript with 13 illuminations. Circa 1465–1470.

Estimate:

EUR 10,000

 

- 15,000

USD 13,700

 

- 20,500

Sold for:

37,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 222-228

ORANGERIE, Thursday, 29.05.2014

Information

Handwriting on vellum, illuminated / leather binding presumably 18th century. 8°. Red lines, text area averaging 9,7 x 6,2 cm, 15 lines (calendar: 16), in a single column. As textura a French lettre bâtarde in brown ink, several hands identifiable. Rubrications in red ink. Near the orations, psalms etc. one- to two-line gold initials on blue or red ground and four-line blue initials (heightened with red and white) on gold ground. Borders accompanying the text averaging 9,7 x 3,3 cm. Richly decorated borders with tendrils of thorn and vine leaves, partly gilt, blue-yellow acanthus, flowers, fruits and depictions of animals on vellum-coloured or yellow ground. Numerous drolleries (mythical creatures, hybrid creatures, wild men, etc.). Both the miniatures and the borders are in their motifs and their style identifable as from the circle of the Master of the Rouen Échevinage (active approx. 1450-1480) and datable to circa 1470. No endpaper / parts: VI12 + (V-1)21 + 7 IV77 + 2 II85 + IV93 + III98 + 4 IV130 + III135 + (IV-1)142. Before folio 13 at least 1 part with losses to the text. Foliation in pencil on the recto-pages upper right (1-141), last folio side not inscribed, fol. 31/32 missed out.

Related literature regarding the Master of the Rouen Échevinage: Claudia Rabel: Artiste et clientèle à la fin du Moyen Age: les manuscrits profanes du Maître de l'échevinage de Rouen; in: Revue le l'Art, vol. 84 (1989), p. 48–60.

François Avril/ and Nicole Reynaud: Les manuscrits à peinture en France 1440-1520, exh. cat., Paris 1995, p. 168-173..

Before 1930 acquired in the Berlin art trade / private collection, Rhineland