[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT HOURS / LYON]. Livre d'heures à l'us - Lot 1

[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT HOURS / LYON]. Livre d'heures à l'usage de Rome (circa 1510/1520). In a small in-8° volume (115 x 173 mm), green velvet, metal spandrels, clasps with coat of arms, gilt edges, red embroidered silk lining and endpaper (17th c. binding). CHARACTERISTICS 170 vellum pages. 13 lines per page. Text in Latin (except for the calendar and a prayer [ff. 34 v° to 35 r°], in French), in black and red ink. ink; advertisements. CONTENTS - ff. 1 to 12: calendar of saints (in French, universal use, not specific to Lyon); - ff. 13 to 15: beginning of the Gospel according to St. John; - ff. 16 to 22: prayer to the Blessed Virgin (Obsecro te): in masculine form "Et michi famulo tuo [...]" (f. 20); - ff. 23 to 28 v°: Hours of the Cross; - ff. 29 to 34: Hours of the Holy Spirit; - ff. 34 v° to 35 r°: Prayer of Saint Louis (in French and red ink); - ff. 35 v° to 38 r°: Seven prayers of Saint Gregory (O Domine Ihesu Criste adoro te in cruce pendentem [...]) ; - f. 38 v° : blank ; - ff. 39 to 41 v°: beginning of the Gospel according to Saint Luke ; - ff. 42 to 44 v°: beginning of the Gospel according to Saint Matthew; - ff. 44 v° to 46 v°: beginning of the Gospel according to Mark; - ff. 47 to 50: Prayer (O Intemerata) ; - ff. 51 to 66 v°: Hours of the Virgin, according to Roman usage, matins; - ff. 67 to 86 r°: Hours of the Virgin [...], Lauds ; - ff. 86 v° to 92 v°: Hours of the Virgin [...], prime ; - ff. 93 to 98 r°: Hours of the Virgin [...], tierce ; - ff. 98 v° to 101 v°: Hours of the Virgin [...], sexte ; - ff. 102 v° to 107 r°: Hours of the Virgin [...], none ; - f. 107 v° : blank ; - ff. 108 r° to 117: Hours of the Virgin [...], vespers ; - ff. 118 to 123: Hours of the Virgin [...], compline; - f. 124: ruled blank ; - ff. 125 r° to 150 v°: Penitential psalms, followed by litanies of the saints (ff. 145 to 148 r°), followed by prayers; - ff. 151 to 155 v°: suffrages to the saints (saints Como and Damian [f. 151], St. Catherine [f. 152], St. Margaret [f. 153 v°], Saint Barbara [f. 154] ; - f. 156: ruled blank ; - ff. 157 to 161: continuation of suffrages, with prayer, "Fidelium deus omnium [...]"; Saint Francis [f. 157 v°], Saint Sebastian [f. 158], Saint Anthony [f. 159 v°], Saints Luke and Pantaleon [f. 161] ; - ff. 162 v° to 169: Office of the Dead ; - f. 170: 16th-century livre de raison (Seve and Rege families). ILLUSTRATIONS Eighteen large miniatures (with gilded architectural frames, putti, sometimes with small biblical scenes in the pediments): - f. 13: Saint John the Evangelist on the island of Patmos ; - f. 16: Mater dolorosa ; - f. 23: Crucifixion with donor kneeling (garment with traces of blood?) and presented by a bishop (not nimbed); - f. 29: Pentecost; - f. 35 v°: Mass of St. Gregory, painted coat of arms in frame; - f. 39: Saint Luke the Evangelist; - f. 42: Saint Matthew the Evangelist; - f. 45: Saint Mark the Evangelist; - f. 51: Annunciation [Hours of the Virgin, matins]; double coat-of-arms painted in frame; - f. 68: Visitation [Hours of the Virgin, Lauds] ; - f. 86 v° : Nativity [Hours of the Virgin, prime] ; - f. 93: Announcement to the shepherds [Hours of the Virgin, tierce] ; - f. 98 v° : Adoration of the Magi [Hours of the Virgin, sexte] ; - f. 103: Presentation in the temple [Hours of the Virgin, none] ; - f. 108: Flight to Egypt [Hours of the Virgin, Vespers] ; - f. 117 v°: Coronation of the Blessed Virgin [Hours of the Virgin, compline] ; - f. 125: King David kneeling before God, his harp at his feet; - f. 162: Job on his dung heap. six small miniatures : - f. 151: Saints Como and Damian ; - f. 152: St. Catherine; - f. 153 v°: Saint Margaret; - f. 154 v°: Saint Barbara; - f. 158 v°: Saint Sebastian; - f. 161: St. Luke and St. Louis (?) [if the suffrage is in honor of St. Luke and St. Pantaleon, it seems that Saint Louis was depicted instead of Saint Pantaleon]. ORNAMENTATION Numerous red or blue painted and illuminated initials, including EIGHTEEN LARGE & 25 BORDERED with birds, insects & snails; numerous line-ends; headings in red. in red. ORIGIN Manuscript most likely copied and painted in Lyon by the "Maître des Entrées de François Ier", one of two important artists who dominated the illuminated manuscript market in Lyon between circa 1485 and 1520. the illuminations of Pentecost (f. 29) and Saint John on Patmos (f. 13) are more likely to be attributed to the "Maître des Alarmes de Mars" or the "Maïtre de Keble College 7", both of whom were