BOOK DESCRIPTION: A fascinating example of the "life" of a book. In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, Southern Netherlands (Bruges?), c. 1430-1450; Spain (Granada?), 1534. Dimensions 125 x 85 mm., iii (modern paper) + 97 + iii (modern paper) folios on parchment (missing an uncertain number of leaves), made in two campaigns: the first, ff. 1-46, copied in seventeen long lines in a formal gothic book hand, the second, ff. 46-97, copied by another scribe in a rounded gothic book hand on sixteen long lines. SIX ILLUMINATED INITIALS WITH FULL BORDERS, FOUR HISTORIATED INITIALS, SEVENTEEN SMALL MINIATURES, and ONE INITIAL WITH BORDER. BINDING: very attractive Spanish modern Morocco binding with binder's stamp of AntolĂn Palomino, one of the most important bookbinders of the twentieth century, and the founder of a bookbinding school in Madrid. TEXT: A fascinating example of the "life" of a book, this manuscript began as a Prayer Book written and decorated in mid-15th century Bruges. About a hundred years later, in 1534, in Spain, a later owner transformed it into a Book of Hours. The liturgical use of this manuscript is evidently unique; we have not identified any other Books of Hours, either in manuscript or print, with the liturgical the use of Granada. PROVENANCE: the original section of the manuscript, was written and illuminated in Bruges in the second quarter of the fifteenth century; the second part of the manuscript was copied in Spain, possibly in Granada and can be securely dated to 1534; textual changes testify to this book's adaptation and continued use after the Council of Trent; erased inscription, f. 97v, now illegible, but possibly a verification that its text had been checked by the inquisition; Private European Collection. CONDITION: many leaves are a bit dirty through use, acanthus borders slightly trimmed outer margin, small stain bottom of the page on ff. 1-13, f. 60 is darkened and a bit dirty, but overall in very good condition. [TM 1283]
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