DPL Reed MMF36

1. Book of Hours, Latin; the Annunciation to the Shepherds preceding Tierce in the Hours of the Virgin. France, early sixteenth century
2. Book of Hours, Latin. France, early sixteenth century

Single leaf. 152 by 93mm. Single column, 33 lines, ruled in ink, written space 113 by 48mm; Roman script in imitation of printed type.

Text: Part of Tierce for the Hours of the Virgin.
Decoration: One- and 2-line initials and line-fillers in liquid gold on blue and red grounds with gold tracery.
Provenance: From a French Renaissance Book of Hours which belonged to John Boykett Jarman (d. 1864). The manuscript was damaged in an August 1846 storm in London, and repaired and retouched by Caleb Wing. After the manuscript was damaged, leaves were cut from the volume, trimmed and inset into new sheets of vellum. Later rebound, it was lot 30 in the Boykett sale, Sotheby’s, 13 June 1864. The manuscript was later acquired around 1923 by Maggs, who broke it up for sale. The Reed leaf was purchased from Sotheby's, 11 April 1961, lot 88b.
References: Manion, Vines, de Hamel no. 98; Reed Early Bibles no. 60.
Shelfmark: RMM Fragment 36.

Description reproduced from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections (London, 1989) by permission of the authors (Christopher de Hamel, Margaret Manion, and the family of Vera F. Vines).