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COLOUR: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS

THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE

30 JULY TO 30 DECEMBER 2016

Protection under the Act is sought for the objects listed:

Object type:

Bound manuscript

Title:

Models for colour mixtures and modelling

Recipe Collection and Model Leaves

Date of creation:

c.1470-1490

Place of creation:

Eastern Netherlands

Artist/Designer (Name and Nationality):

Unknown

Dimensions (H x W x D):

See below

Material/Medium:

Parchment, ink, pigment

Brief physical description (including identifying marks and

inscriptions):

Paper (first quire: PiccP 107592, second quire, text: comparable

to PiccP 111881 and 111882, second quire, model leaf: no

watermark), i nineteenth-century paper flyleaf + 16 fols. + i

nineteenth-century paper flyleaf , first quire c.147 x 109 mm

(c. 93 x 69 mm), second quire 147 x 107 mm (c. 103 x 63 mm),

varying number of long lines, text frame ruled in ink, only

vertical lines in the second quire. Latin and Dutch (North

Eastern Netherlands), with additions in early modern High

German. Script is Gothic bookhand (first quire hybrida formata,

second quire cursive. Binding early twentieth century, reused

limp parchment.

Lender:

Cologne, Historisches Archiv

Provenance:

Ferdinand Franz Wallraf (1748-1824); his bequest to the city of

Cologne, 1824.

Literature: Menne 1937, 389-90, no. 201; Leloux 1977; Wallert

1991; Clarke 2001a, 67; Oltrogge and Fuchs 2011, 222-26;

Oltrogge 2013, 66-67

Ownership between 1933-45:

Cologne, Historisches Archiv

Is the object registered on Art Loss Register?

N/A

Lender’s accession no.

Best. 7010-293

Object type:

Bound manuscript

Title:

Instructions for the painting of acanthus leaves and backgrounds

of initials

Göttingen Model Book

Date of creation:

c.1440-1460

Place of creation:

Mainz, Germany


Unknown


155 x 105 mm

Material/Medium:

Parchment, ink, pigment


inscriptions):

One of two known copies of an exercise book for illuminators.

11 fols., 155 x 105 mm, 30-34 long lines, within a frame ruled

in faint metal point. In early modern German, Gothic bookhand

script (cursive). Binding is nineteenth century, blue paper limp

binding

Lender:

Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek

Provenance:

Johann Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach (1687-1769), Frankfurt;

his bequest to the University of Göttingen, 1770

Exhibitions: Hamburg 2002, no. 18.

Literature: Meyer 1894, 298-99; Lehmann-Haupt 1966, 21-23;

Lehmann-Haupt 1972; König 1979, 95-98; Roosen-Runge 1981;

Roosen-Runge and Roosen-Runge 1981, 281-85; Wieck 1981; Roosen-

Runge 1983; König 1983, 89; Höhle 1984; Roosen-Runge 1984, 73-

74; Oltrogge, Michon and Fuchs 1989; Fuchs and Oltrogge 1990;

Fuchs and Oltrogge 1991; Alexander 1992a, 126; Scheller 1995,

87; Clarke 2001a, 77; Saurma-Jeltsch 2001, 115-17, 172-77; König

2006, 110-13; Oltrogge 2013, 65-66


Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek


N/A


8° Cod. MS Uffenb. 51 Cim

Object type:

Bound manuscript

Title:

De Diversis Coloribus

The Recipe Collection of Johannes Alcherius (Manuscript of Jean

Lebègue)

Date of creation:

1431

Place of creation:

France, probably Paris


Johannes Alcherius, Milan (fl. 1382-1407)


215 x 145 mm

Material/Medium:

Parchment, ink, pigment, gold leaf


inscriptions):

Paper, i flyleaf + 101fols. + v flyleaves, 215 x 145 mm (100 x

95-100 mm), 27-33 long lines, ruled in black ink, quire marks,

catchwords, 2 blank leaves excised after fols. 104 and 105.

Latin and French, in Gothic bookhand (cursive) script. Binding

is late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, blue leather

over pasteboards.

Lender:

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

Provenance:

Louis Martel, Rouen (his inscription Lud[ovicus] Martellus

Rothomagensis 1587 with his anagram Illustra Deus oculum on fol.

1); sold to Jean Bigot (d. 1645), seigneur of Sommesnil, Normandy

(his bookplate; Delisle 1877, xxxiii); by descent to Louis

Émeric Bigot (d. 1689), Rouen; by descent to Robert Bigot (d.

1692); sold at his sale in Paris, 1706 to Bibliothèque du Roi;

at the Bibliothèque Imperiale, Paris (now BnF) by 1744.

Literature: Merrifield 1967, I, 1-321; Delisle 1877, 79-80;

Stein 1914; Loumyer 1914, 54-9, 158-60, 168-70; Hallaire 1954;

Porcher 1960; Porcher 1962; Samaran and Marichal 1962; Tosatti

Soldano 1983a; Tosatti Soldano 1983b; Tosatti Soldano 1991;

Byrne 1986; Clarke 2001a, 101, no. 2790; Turner 1998; Guineau

et al. 1998; Rouse and Rouse 2000, II, Appendix 11A, 211-16;

Tosatti 2002, 59-67; Ouy 2006; Hedeman 2006a; Hedeman 2006b.




N/A


MS latin 6741

Object type:

Bound manuscript

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Date of creation:

c.1493

Place of creation:

France, Lorraine, Nancy


Scribe: François Elzine

Artist: Georges Trubert (doc. 1467-1499)


159 x 108 mm

Material/Medium:



inscriptions):

Parchment, 105 fols., 159 x 108 mm (94-100 x 60-64 mm), 21 long

lines ruled in red ink. Latin, in Gothic bookhand (textualis)

script. Binding is nineteenth century, blue velvet over wooden

boards, metal clasps and corner pieces.

Lender:


Provenance:

Made for Jean de Chasteauneuf c.1493; John Boykett Jarman (d.

1864); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 13-14 June 1864, lot 33;

Sotheby’s, London, 16 July 1928, lot 269; acquired by the

Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1990.

Exhibitions: Paris 1993, no. 217.

Literature: Backhouse 1968, 92 n. 11; Reynaud 1977, 41, 49, 62

n. 6, figs. 31, 47; Panayotova 2007a, 251-55, figs. 9, 11.


Private collection, UK


N/A


MS nouv. acq. lat. 3210

Object type:

Pontifical

Title:

Ordination of priests

Date of creation:

1303-1316

Place of creation:

Metz or Verdun, France


Master of the Cambridge Pontifical of Renaud de Bar and others


340 x 232 mm

Material/Medium:



inscriptions):

Parchment, ii parchment flyleaves + 131 fols. + i parchment

flyleaf, 340 x 232 mm (219 x 142 mm), 14 long lines, ruled in

plummet, catchwords, square notation on four-line staves ruled

in red ink. Latin. Script is Gothic bookhand (textualis).

Binding is sixteenth century, brown calf over wooden boards,

sewn on five supports, gold-stamped corner pieces, central panel

and arms within a medallion inscribed CAROLUS A LOTHARINGIA

EPISCOPUS METENSIS on both covers

Lender:

Prague, National Library of the Czech Republic

Provenance:

Renaut de Bar, bishop of Metz (1303-1316); still at Metz

Cathedral in 1567 when it was entered as no. 3 in the inventory

of 20 November 1567 (Pelt 1930, 312); Charles (1567-1607),

Cardinal of Lorraine and Bishop of Metz (1578-1607), his arms

on both covers and seventeenth-century inscription inside upper

cover; František Josef Sternberg-Manderscheid (1763-1830);

purchased after his death, with most of his library, by August

Longin of Lobkowicz (1797-1842), MS 235 in the Library at

Lobkowicz Palace, Prague; sold with the Lobkowicz Palace Library

to the Czechoslovakian State in 1928 and relocated to the

National Library.

Exhibitions: Prague 1891, 153, ch. 17; Prague 1926 (listed);

Olomouc 2006, no. 19

Literature: Kvĕt 1931, 224-25, 229, figs. 79-81, pl. XXXI;

Urbánková 1957, 25-6, 82, no. 115, pl. 46; de Winter 1980,

passim; Davenport 1984, 74, 530-63; de Hamel 2006b, 209-211; Stones 2013, I, 72, 86, 124, II, 84, 284, 335, 489; Stones 2014, I,

Cat. IV-9, ills. 46-50, 52-68, pls. 8-14 (with additional

literature).


Prague, National Library of the Czech Republic


N/A


MS XXIII.C.120

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