Shelfmark
CSR.1371
Main entry--corporate name
Uniform title
[Book of hours. (Ms. Heures de Savoie)]
Title
Les Heures de Savoie : facsimiles of fifty-two pages from the Hours executed for Blanche of Burgundy, being all that is known to survive of a famous fourteenth-century ms., which was burnt at Turin in 1904 / with a notice by Dom P. Blanchard.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed at the Chiswick Press for Henry Yates Thompson, MDCCCCX [1910]
Physical description
24 p., 52 p. of plates : ill., facsims. ; 26 cm.
Note
Title page printed in red and black.
Note
Preface, in English, signed: H.Y.T. [i.e. Henry Yates Thompson].
Note
Notice by Dom P. Blanchard in French, with caption title: Les Heures de Savoie, ou Très belles grandes heures de Charles V.
Note
A fragment of the Heures de Savoie (detached from ms. E.V.49, National Library, Turin) formerly preserved in the library of the Catholic Bishop at Portsmouth, England.
Provenance
Booklabel of Eton College Library with red initials on the front flyleaf verso.
Provenance
Extensive annotations in black ink and pencil on front endpapers, including: "D. Achet. 17 April 1916".
Binding
20th century full grey cloth binding; black titling on front cover and spine.
Copy-specific note
Reference collection.
Copy-specific note
Envelope loosely inserted containing 24 documents, including letters, clippings, business cards, and postcards.
Subject
Subject
Catholic Church Diocese of Portsmouth (England)
Subject
Books of hours Illustrations.
Subject
Illumination of books and manuscripts, French.
Subject
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic France.
Genre/Form
Photographic facsimiles.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Blanche, Jacques-Emile, 1861 - 1942 de Bourgogne, consort of Edoardo, conte di Savoia,
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B54807