Suffrages from a Book of Hours
author
Unknown
illuminator
Caleb William Wing
(England, 1801 - 1874)
Date1450-1500
Place MadeParis, Ile-de-France, France, Europe
MediumInk, colors and gold on vellum
Dimensions11.3 x 7.5 cm (4 7/16 x 2 15/16 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number6.T.6
eMuseum ID720758
EmbARK ObjectID13375
Previous NumberDe Ricci 3
Original Numbernone, below right of M27w39 (I&N)
TMS Source ID2327
Last Updated8/14/24
Description1 Vol. (46 leaves) ; vellum ; ill.: 11.3 cmStatus
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella 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.
BibliographyNotesSotheby, 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)
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)
ProvenanceNotesCollection 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)
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)
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