Anne Teaching the Virgin to Read in Early Fifteenth-Century England’ in Migrations: Medieval Manuscripts in New Zealand edited by Stephanie Hollis and Alexandra Barratt (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), 216–46 The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand edited by Bronwyn Stocks and Nigel Morgan (South Yarra, Victoria: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2008), no. ‘The Fitzherbert Hours (Dunedin Public Libraries, Reed MS 5) and the Iconography of St. Markham, Darlington, Durham, in November 1954. It was purchased for the Reed collection from E. The manuscript was sold by Sotheby’s, 31 March 1952, lot 8, to ‘Garthwaite’. 1856) of Ravensfell and Bromley House in Kent. Affixed to the verso of the front flyleaf is the armorial bookplate of William Ridley Richardson (b. Barratt notes that Elizabeth’s husband, Thomas, died in 1546.Ī cutting from a nineteenth-century English book dealer’s catalogue present on the front flyleaf notes an ‘old Beaufort bookplate’, but the manuscript is not identifiable among those of the dukes of Beaufort. The manuscript passed to their daughter, Barbara, who married Sir Thomas Cokayne of Ashbourne, and then to her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Cokayne, whose inscription on folio 125v reads: Elyzabethe Cokayn of ovton undr Ardenne in the countye of Ley’t Wydowe ys the true honer of this booke’. The Fitzherberts were a prominent legal and, later, recusant family from Derbyshire. According to Alexandra Barratt, Margery Fitzherbert (née Babington) was married to John Fitzherbert of Etwall, the second son of the tenth lord of Norbury. Known as the Fitzherbert Hours, the book was owned by Margery Fitzherbert, whose name is incorporated no fewer than six times in prayers on three leaves. Provenance: Made in Flanders, presumably Bruges, for the English market. 61).īinding: Quires housed in a twentieth-century case. Note: The book is formed of three distinct components, of which the core is a Flemish Book of Hours, ca. Part three (English) in 17 lines, ruled in brown ink, written space 124 x 7.3mm. Part two (English) in 20 lines, ruled in red ink, written space 104 by 70mm. Part one (Flemish) in 20 lines, ruled in black ink, written space 105 x 69mm. 1470, with adaptations done in England, f.1vġ26 leaves. Book of Hours, Latin Funeral Service preceding the Office of the Dead.1470, with adaptations done in England, f.62v Book of Hours, Latin the Man of Sorrows preceding the Psalms of the Passion.1470, with adaptations done in England, f.108v
1470, with adaptations done in England ownership inscription of Elizabeth Cockayne (f.125v)