The Burlington Fine Arts Club
Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts
1908

The subsequent provenance and present whereabouts, where known, of the privately owned manuscripts

compiled by Peter Kidd

last updated 5 Sept. 2004

Key:

1908 No. Present location or brief description 1908 or subsequent provenance
4 Getty, MS Ludwig V 1 HPK; Perrins III, lot 97
5 PML, M 642  
7 PML, G 51 Cockerell sale 19/5/58, lot 116
9 BL, Egerton MS 3763  
11 BL, Add. MS 49598  
13 PML, M 728  
14 Getty, MS Ludwig II 3 HPK; Perrins I, lot 3
17 BL, YT MS 26 23/3/20 lot 32
18 PML, M 736 Holford
25 Getty, MS Ludwig XIV 2 HPK; Perrins I, lot 4
27 V&A, E.4588-1910 (Salting 4481)  
28 V&A, ?? Salting
30 Fitzwilliam, Marlay Cuttings It. 18  
33 NLS, MS 10000 (Acc. 3141) Perrins III, lot 101
36 PML, M 43  
39 BL, Add. MS 50,000  
40 Fitzwilliam, MS ?? Pierre Berès sale 30/11/93 lot 2
43 BL, Add. MS 62925  
45 BL, Add. MS 38116  
46 BL, Add. MS 48985  
47 PML, M 102  
50 PML, G 53 Perrins I, lot 11
52 PML, M 100  
55A Fitzwilliam, Marlay Cuttings Fr. 1  
58 BL, Add. 49999  
60 Fitzwilliam, MS 304 A. A. de Pass
61-62 WAM, W 759-761  
63 PML, M 107  
65 Private Collection, London Maggs Bulletin, June 1974, no. 7; Perrins III, lot 110
66 BL, YT MS 13  
67 BL, Add. MS 49622  
68 BL, YT MS 14 (olim Add. MS 39810)  
70 Initial E with Christ and a group of apostles, from a choirbook, Flanders, s. xiv in., c. 100 x 100 mm Rev. W. J. Loftie
72 Fitzwilliam, Add. MS 38-1950 T. H. Riches, of Shenley, Herts.; YT
75 PML, M 106  
76 Getty, MS Ludwig V 4 Perrins II, lot 57
77 The St. Blasian Psalter, Swiss, s. xiii (after 1224), 20ll, 155+9 ff. Beck sale 16/6/97, lot 11; HPK; Perrins III, lot 104
80 PML, M 81  
81 Getty, MS Ludwig XV 3 HPK; Perrins I, lot 7
84 Getty, MS Ludwig XV 4 13/6/77 lot 72
88 Getty, MS Ludwig III 1 HPK; Perrins II, lot 58
93 HEH, HM 19999 Maggs; Perrins III, lot 109
94 Liverpool University Library, MS F.4.20 19/5/36, lot 24
99 Private Collection, Ohio 19/6/90, lot 81; 1/12/87, lot 28; Abbey sale 1/12/70, lot 2866; Perrins II, lot 60
100 Yale, MS 387 Perrins I, lot 5
101 Boulder, University of Colorado (John Feldman deposit) or NY, Metropolitan Museum ? 12/12/67, lot 18; Quaritch, Catalogue 767, item 4; Cockerell; YT MS 53
102 Bible, England, s. xiii, 2 cols. of 63ll, 1+294+2ff, 18 historiated initials Abbey sale, 20/6/78, lot 2979; Aldenham sale 22/3/37, lot 23
103 BL, Add. MS 52778 E. G. Millar by 1957
104 Fitzwilliam, MS Marlay Cutting It. 12  
105 V&A, Salting ??  
108 Getty, MS Ludwig I 8 30/7/20, lot 1130
112 [Present location to be announced soon] Brian Cron (d. 2002), Kew; Cockerell
114 Pocket Bible, France, s. xiii3/4, 2 cols. of 46ll, 772+15ff Breslauer; Chester Beatty sale 3/12/68 lot 16; Mr & Mrs Arthur Severn
116 Bible written by 'Marinus', written in Italy, illuminated in France, s. xiii3/4, 2 cols. of 58ll, 468ff Perrins I, lot 6
117 Fitzwilliam, Marlay Cutting It ??  
119 Musee du Louvre, Paris  
120 Fitzwilliam, MS 294  
121 Fitzwilliam, MS 293a  
122 Initial B, Spain, s. xv ex., depicting Temperence, from same MS as no. 121 Muller, 22/11/29 lot 98 with pl.; Arnold Mettler; Charles P. D. Maclagan, his sale 19/3/09 lot 238
123 PML, M 60  
124 PML, M 92  
125 PML, M 183  
126 Psalter, Liège, c.1300, 20ll, 249ff Abbey sale 4/6/74, lot 2915
127 Pocket Cluniac Breviary, France, c.1300, 18ll, 262ff Sotheby's, 3/12/02 lot 74; Andrew Lang
128 PML, M 72  
129 PML, M 97  
130 BL ? (Hours of Jeanne de Navarre) YT
131 PML, M 75  
132 PML, M 44  
133 PML, M 240  
134 NYPL, Spencer MS 22 Rosenbach; Holford
135 Fitzwilliam, MS 300  
136 Getty, MS Ludwig VIII 4 Perrins II, lot 62
137 PML, M 101  
138 PML, M 730  
139 PML, M 729 Holford; [formerly Ottley sale, 10/5/1838, lots 127 & 244]
140 BL, YT MS 11 (olim Add. MS 39843)  
141 Getty, MS Luwig IX 3 Abbey sale 1/12/70, lot 2868, his property by 1965; 7/6/32, lot 16
142 Fitzwilliam, MS 288  
143 Getty, MS Ludwig XIV 6 Perrins I, lot 8
144 PML, M 805-6 Cortland Field Bishop, MSS 20-22 (de Ricci, Census, pp. 1658-9)
145 BnF, on deposit from the Societé des autographs des manuscrits francais, Paris (cf. Hedeman, p. 299) 8/12/81, lot 949
146 Fitzwilliam, MS 289  
149 PML, M 47  
152 PML, M 893 Perrins I, lot 19
153 BL, Add. MS 50001  
154 Psalter of Margaret Windsor, prioress of Syon, s. xv2/4, 16ll, 231ff Earl of Plymouth
159 Gulbenkian, ms L.A. 143 Bought by Dergantz at the YT sale, 23/3/20 lot LVI
160 Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement from the Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth  
161-162 As no. 160  
163 BL, Add. MS 38121  
164 PML, M 52  
165 Gulbenkian Chester Beatty sale 1932, lot 31
166 Fitzwilliam, MS 1058-1975 Henry Davis; Quaritch; Perrins I, lot 38
167 Private Collection, Belgium 'Wilson' bought a 20/6/95 lot 109; Paul Durrieu; 13/7/09 lot 277
168 Book of Hours, Sarum Use, s. xvi, 23ll, 129ff Huth
169 PML, M 732 Holford
170 Ferial Psalter and Hymnary, Use of Rome, France, s. xvi, 24ll, 182ff Ritman sale 6/7/00, lot 56; Abbey; Perrins III, lot 145
171 Statutes of the Order of St. Michel, s. xvi, France, 26ll, 36ff perhaps Tenner, 22/4/69 lot 25; Holford
174 Fitzwilliam, MS 36-1950 T. H. Riches
175 BAV Perrins I, lot 12
176 Yale, MS 428 HPK; Perrins I, lot 14
177 PML, M 800 Aldenham sale, 22/3/37, lot 237
178 Comites Latentes Collection, MS 20 Witten; Perrins I, lot 15
179 St. Augustine, St. Bernard, St. Anselm, 1375, Italy, 29ll, 78ff Bruce Ferrini, Important illuminated manuscripts (2000), no. 11; HPK, Cat. 95 (1961) item 17; Perrins II, lot 65
180 Yale, MS 407  
181 Comites Latentes Collection, MS ?? Bought 2/12/86, lot 47; 19/5/36, lot 37l; exported to Mexico by Maggs, who bought it from J. Harvey Frost in 1932
182 Rules of the School of St. John the Evangelist at Florence, Florence, s. xv, 20ll, 21ff Abbey, bought at Perrins III, lot 119
183 Andrea di Barberino, Naples, 1462, 33ll, 206ff 17/12/91, lot 57 (unsold); HPK (1983); HPK (1967); 17/12/59, lot 57; Perrins, II, lot 73
184 V&A, Salting ??: Book of Hours, Naples, s. xv, 19l, 411ff Salting
185 Franciscan Missal, Use of Rome, Venice?, s. xiv, 28ll, 2 cols, 377ff American Art Association/Anderson 15/4/29, lot 271; Sir Francis B. Palmer [formerly Ashburnham sale, 10/6/01 lot 409]
186 Bodmer Foundation HPK; Perrins I, lot 36
187 Beinecke MS Marston 184 (ex info. Bill Stoneman) Sotheby's 19/5/58 lot 123; HPK, cat 88 no. 42
188 Joachim Abbas, Vaticinia et imagines summorum pontificum, Italy, s. xv, 31ff Sam Fogg (2002); Cockerell
189 Aratus, Phaenomena, Italy, s. xv, 28ll, 58ff Perrins I, lot 34
190 Hyginus, De signis caelestibus, Italy, s. xv, 24ll, 53ff Perrins III, lot 143
191 Ferdinand of Cordova, De consultandi ratione, Naples, 1473-83, 21ll, 184ff Robinson, bought 13/12/76, lot 61; Perrins III, lot 133
192 Bought on behalf of the Italian Government Olschki; from Abbey sale 1/12/70, lot 2887; from Cockerell; from Rosenthal
193 BL, Add. MS 38125  
194 WAM, W 755 Harvey Frost, bought from Maggs in 1955; Quaritch (1943) no. 613, (1931) no. 120; bought at Holford sale 29/7/29, lot 6
195 Carthusian Missal, written for the Certosa of Florence, with Acciaioli arms, s. xv-xvi, 23ll, 2 cols, 275ff Aldenham sale, 22/3/37, lot 238
196 Dublin, Chester Beatty, MS. W. 107 Holford
197 Initial from a choirbook with St. Thomas receiving the girdle of the Virgin, Italy, s. xv Colonel Eustace Balfour
198 Epistles of St. Jerome, written at Ancona by Johannes Petrus Mathei de Ancona in 1459, Italy, 40ll and 36ll, 338ff Perrins III, lot 124
199 NYPL, Spencer MS 20 Rosenbach; Holford
200 Bodleian Library, MS Lat. th. c. 31 Abbey sale, 1/12/70, lot 2899
201 Fitzwilliam, MS Marlay Cuttings Sp. 2 and 3  
202 Fitzwilliam, MS Marlay Cuttings Sp. 4  
203 Fitzwilliam, MS Marlay Cuttings Sp. 5  
204 Chester Beatty Library, MS. W. 94 Hamilton E. Field
205 Book of Hours, Use of Chalons-sur-Marne, s. xv, 16ll, 121ff Perrins I, lot 17
206 Book of Hours, use of Nantes?, s. xv, 14ll, 15ff [formerly Sneyd]
207 Getty, MS 57 Joel & Maxine Spitz, Glencoe, IL.; Cortland Field Bishop
208 Book of Hours, use of Paris, s. xv, 16ll, 208ff Colonel Cotes
210 Book of Hours, use of Rome, France, s. xv, 14ll, 212ff Perrins III, lot 129
211 Book of Hours, use of Paris, France, s. xv, 15ll, 177ff Beck sale, 16/6/97, lot 24; Perrins II, lot 78
212 Book of Hours, use of Rouen, s. xv, 13ll, 182ff Jorn Gunther (Boston, 2000), no. 43; Perrins I, lot 30
213 Book of Hours, use of Rome, France, s. xv, 13ll, 271ff John Murray
214 Comites Latentes Collection, MS 11 Perrins
215 Book of Hours, Use of Langres, France, s. xv, 17ll, 168ff Rev. E. S. Dewick
216 Fitzwilliam, MS. 39-1950 Cockerell
217 V&A, 2385-1910 (Salting 1222)  
218 Book of Hours, with E-E in many borders Sam Fogg; 29/11/90, lot 144; Beres, Cat. 60; 10/7/67, lot 91; Perrins II, lot 85
219 PML, M 834 Chester Beatty; Holford
220 V&A, E4580-3-1910 [other leaves were Fogg & Ferrini (1988), items 24-28; Ferrini, Cat. 2, items 18-21]
221 Book of Hours, use of Rouen, s. xv, 16ll, 149ff, binding with the name N. le Forestier Earl Egerton of Tatton
222 Book of Hours, use of Rome, France, s. xv, 15ll, 195ff 19/5/36 lot 33; Ingram
223 V&A, L.2388-1910 (Salting 1861)  
224 NY Public Library, MS 117 (de Ricci p. 1334) Given by Edward S. Harkness in 1931; Holford
225 Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts 3/4/57, lot 15; 16/6/1897, lot 550
226 Book of Hours, France, s. xv, 14ll, 174ff Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
227 BL, Add. MS 50004  
228 Book of Hours illuminated by Willem Vrelant for a Spanish lady, 14ll, 128ff Tulkens, bought at Perrins II, 1/12/59 lot 78
229 V&A, L.2393-1910 (Salting 4478)  
230 Private Collection, Belgium Christie's 11/7/74, lot 17
231 V&A ?? Salting
232 Book of Hours, use of Rome, Bruges, s. xv, 17ll, 208ff Col. R. J. Cooper
233 PML, M 387  
234 Stuttgart, Landesbibliothek, cod. brev. 162 Perrins III, lot 135; Jeffery Whitehead
235 V&A, L.2384-1910 (Salting 1221)  
236 Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels, MS ? Perrins I, lot 27
237 PML, M 491  
238 Calendar, Bruges, c.1500, 12ff 19/6/90, lot 40; Aldenham sale, 22/3/37, lot 188
239 Book of Hours, (illuminated by the Master of the David Scenes?), Flanders, c.1500, 15ll, 237ff Quaritch cat. 833 (1962) no. 7; Perrins II, lot 87; Sneyd
240 PML, M ... J. Pierpont Morgan
241 V&A, P. 159-1920 ... Salting
242 Book of Hours in Dutch, use of Utrecht, s. xv, 16ll, 303ff Beck sale, 10/6/97 lot 20; Abbey sale 1/12/70 lot 2875
243 WAM, W 192 Gruel; Rev. W. J. Loftie
244 Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B. 1.46 (not Indiana, Lilly Library, MS Ricketts 133, as stated by de Ricci, p. 637) Col. Eustace Balfour. Previously Dawson Turner; Frederick Clarke, sold 1 Nov 1904 lot 476; subsequently John Charrington, who gave it to Trinity College in 1916
245 Book of Hours in Dutch, use of Utrecht, s. xv, 14 and 16ll, 203ff Perrins I, lot 20
246 Book of Hours in Dutch, use of Utrecht, s. xv, 21ll, 220ff John Charrington
247 Sample alphabets, Netherlands, s. xv, bound in pink velvet brocade Rev. W. J. Loftie
248 Miniature Psalter, Germany, s. xv, 16ll, 223ff Huth
249 Renate König, Cologne (Ars Vivendi, no. 13) HPK (1974), no. 29; Chester Beatty sale 3/12/68 lot 21; Holford sale 29/7/29 lot 8
250 Book of Hours, Milan, s. xiv, 12ll, 254ff Maggs cat. 871 (1960) no. 79; Perrins, II, 1/12/59 lot 66; J. Rosenthal, 1912; Whitcombe Greene
251 Fitzwilliam, MS 334 A. A. de Pass
252 Book of Hours, use of Rome, s. xv, 13ll, 174ff, binding with the arms of a Spanish bishop, apparently Ruiz de Huidobra 5/7/65 lot 204; Perrins III, lot 122
253 Getty, MS Ludwig IX 13 Perrins I, lot 28
254 Fitzwilliam, MS 337 A. A. de Pass
255 Walters Art Museum, W ??? (The Adimari Hours) Perrins II, lot 80
256 Augustinian Breviary, Florence, s. xv, 2 cols. 36 lines, 416ff Abbey sale 19/6/89 lot 3034; Aldenham sale 22/3/37 lot 83
257 BL, YT MS30  
258 Comites Latentes Collection, MS. ?? Bought at Abbey sale 19/6/89 lot 3034; Perrins II, lot 88
259 Book of Hours, Florence, c1500, 12ll, 144ff [V&A?] David M. Currie
260 Book of Hours, use of Rome, Milan?, c.1500, 14ll, 161ff Jorn Gunther, Catalogue [1993] item XII; Perrins I, lot 32; Whitcombe Greene
261 Book of Hours, use of the Humilite Order, written for a lady, Milan, s. xv ex., 11ll, 288ff Huth
262 Book of Hours, use of Rome, written for Galeotto Pico della Mirandola, Italy, s. xv ex., 19ll, 114ff Perrins
263 Comites Latentes Collection, MS 49 Abbey sale 1/12/70 lot 2893
264 Comites Latentes Collection, MS 51 Abbey sale 1/12/70 lot 2894
265 Lucretius, De rerum natura, written for a member of the Pazzi family, Florence, s. xv ex., 26ll, 144ff Abbey sale 25/3/75 lot 2970; Aldenham sale 22/3/37 lot 222
267 PML, M 731 Holford
269 V&A ??? Salting