Provenance
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.
Accession Number
198027
Medium
Manuscript in pen and colored inks with gilding, with fifteen miniatures in tempera on vellum, with tooled leather binding
Dimensions
20 × 14.5 × 5 cm (7 7/8 × 5 3/4 × 2 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Credit Line
Grant from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation, purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. William Vance, the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation, the Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Family Foundation, the William and Marilyn Simpson Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Borland, Jr., T. Kimball Brooker, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Karp, and Mary Adams Young; Margaret Day Blake and Mary S. Adams Funds