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Stonyhurst Hours (Use of Sarum)
Beaufort Saints Group · c. 1400–10
Provenance
Ownership history
- Written and illuminated in The Netherlands for use in England [The Use of Sarum, style of the illuminations, and inclusion of numerous English saints suggests an English destination]. Unknown English owner [various added prayers and rubrics in Middle English]. Horne, 1840 [inscribed inside front cover]. Stonyhurst College, Clitheroe, Lancashire, by 1870 [numbered MS 70 by Reverend Charles Boardman (1831–1894) around 1870]. Sold by Les Enluminures, Ltd, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2009.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Liverpool Catholic Exhibition No.31.
- Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, Medieval and Early Renaissance Treasures of the North West, Jan. 15–Feb. 28, 1976, p. 25, cat. 33.
Literature
Published references
- N. Rogers, "Books of Hours Produced in the Low Countries for the English Market in the Fifteenth Century," unpublished doctoral dissertation, Cambridge, 1982, pls. 15–16.
- N. Ker and A. J. Piper, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, IV (1992), pp. 462–64.
- S. Vertongen, "De zgn. Meester van de Beaufortheiligen en de Brugse miniatuurkunst," in Verslag van de Groningse Codicologendagen (Oct. 8–9, 1992).
- M. Smeyers, et al. Vlaamse Miniaturen voor van Eyck (ca. 1380–ca. 1420). Catalogus (Louvain, 1993), no. 20, pp. 59–60.
- B. Cardon, "The Master of the Beaufort Saints," Grove Dictionary of Art, XX (1996), p. 624.
- Dominique Vanwijnsberghe,"Moult hons et notables" L'enluminure tournaisienne a l'epoque de Robert Campin (1380–1430) (Paris/ Leuven/ Dudley, MA, Uitgeverij Peeters, 2007), p. 45, no. 122, fig. 52.
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