Object details
Object number
6.T.6
Creator(s)
Title
Suffrages from a Book of Hours
Date
1450-1500
Medium
Ink, colors and gold on vellum
Language
Latin
Publication Place
France
Binding Description
Blue (or green) velvet binding with clasps, and deeply gauffered edges (English, 19th century)
Description
1 Vol. (46 leaves) ; vellum ; ill.: 11.3 cm
Dimensions
11.3 x 7.5 cm (4 7/16 x 2 15/16 in.)
Provenance
Collection of the jeweller and manuscript connoisseur John Boykett Jarman (d. 1864), Windsor.
Purchased by an unknown collector from the Jarman sale at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 1864, lot 12.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the booksellers J. Pearson & Co., London on 22 December 1902 for £720. (as a prayerbook of Anne de Bretagne, illuminated by Jean Bourdichon)
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. Catalogue of the Beautiful Collection of Illuminated Missals and of Books of Hours...Formed by the Late John Boykett Jarman, Esq... (London, 13 June 1864), p. 5, lot 12. (as French, dated 16th century; as a hagiography)
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Manuscripts and Bookbindings from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1922), pp. 6-13. (as Jean Bourdichon for Anne de Bretagne)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston: 1935), p. 241. (as Northern France, second half of the 15th century)
Seymour de Ricci and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. I (New York, 1935), p. 931, no. 3.
Anne-Marie Eze. "Italian Illuminated manuscripts at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." Rivista di storia della miniatura (2012), pp. 91, 94.
Anne-Marie Eze in Jeffery F. Hamburger et al. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Newton: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Houghton Library, Harvard University, 2016), pp. 105-105, no. 81, ill. (as restored by Caleb William Wing, about 1864)
Gallery
Long Gallery
Case
Book Of Hours Case
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