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Catalogue raisonné: Research project 2022-2023, Illuminated Manuscripts, Christian Etheridge, Art Historian

The Hours of Yolande of Flanders

Shelfmark: NMB 1696-1697
Date: c.1353-1363
Place of Origin: Paris
Material: Gouache and shell gold on parchment
Dimensions: 109 x 80 mm
Binding: None 
Number of Leaves: 2
Foliation: 
Artist: Jean and Bourgot le Noir
Type: Book of Hours
Language: Latin
Script: Gothic Textura  
Number of Lines: 11
Textual Context: NMB 1696 part of Terce, NMB 1697 part of Matins and Te deum
Text: NMB 1696 Initial D Deus, qui de beatae Mariae virginis utero 
NMB 1697 Initial A Adsit nobis, quaesumus Domine. 

Decoration: The manuscript is throughout written with azure and gold lettering. The full foliate borders are coloured in blue, red and gold. NMB 1696 recto has a clerk in the initial A. He is sitting down and wearing brown robes and a cap. The clerk is writing a book. NMB 1696 verso has an angel inside an initial D. The angel sits looking to its right. It has white wings and curly blonde hair and wears a white robe. The angel holds a small portable organ in its hands and holding it to its left. NMB 1697 recto has a small rabbit or hare on the sixth line. NMB 1697 verso has a head appearing in the initial of line nine. At the bottom of the leaf, a woman is emerging from the right border. She is wearing a white wimple and a light brown dress. Cradled in her arms is a small infant with curly hair who is tightly swaddled. 

Ownership: NMB 1696-1697 are two cuttings from the Hours of Yolande of Flanders. Most of the manuscript now resides in the British Library as Yates Thompson 27. The manuscript was illuminated by Jean le Noir (fl.1335-1380) and/or by his daughter Bourgot. This manuscript is related to other royal books of hours illuminated by the father/daughter team including the Hours of Jeanne de Navarre and the Hours of Bonne of Luxembourg. It seems that the manuscript was made for Yolande of Flanders (1326-1395), daughter of Robert de Cassel and Joan of Brittany, for, or after, her marriage to Philippe of Navarre (†1363), Count of Longueville and son of Queen Jeanne II of Navarre. The Hours of Jeanne de Navarre, also illuminated by Jean and Bourgot le Noir, were made for Yolande’s mother-in-law. Yolande was arrested by the king of France for her own imprisonment of her relatives. She was imprisoned in the Temple in Paris, from where she escaped in 1372, leaving her Book of Hours behind. This was then owned by King Charles V of France (r.1364-1380) and in his inventory at his death as no.3306 (Delisle 1907). The next owner we know of was the London goldsmith and book collector, John Boykett Jarman (1782-1864). A great storm happened in London in 1846 that flooded his house and damaged his manuscripts including the Hours of Yolande of Flanders, as well as the Butler Hours, see NMB 1726-1727 (Backhouse 1968). The manuscript was then sold to John Ruskin (1819-1900) the art critic and major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite movement social critic in c. 1854.  Ruskin then gave 13 leaves to the Ruskin School of Fine Art in Oxford, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Dep. a. 1. It would seem likely that Ruskin gave the cuttings that now make up NMB 1696-1697 to his secretary Lawrence Jermyn Hilliard (1855-1887) (Dearden 2012). The main manuscript was then bought by Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), book collector and newspaper proprietor in 1901. It was then bequeathed to the British Museum by Mrs. Henry Yates Thompson in 1941. Meanwhile, NMB 1696-1697 stayed in the Hilliard family until M. E. Hilliard sold the cuttings at the Sotheby auction on the 16th of May 1955 as lot 77. They were brought by Sven Ericsson for Stockholm for £220.

Acquired: Gift to the Nationalmuseum by Sven Ericsson, Stockholm in 1956

Leaves from the same Manuscript in other Collections: 
London, British Library, Yates Thompson 27
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Dep. a. 1

Related Manuscripts in Other Public Collections: 
New York, Cloisters, MS 69.86, Hours of Bonne of Luxembourg
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, nouv. acq. Lat. 3145, Hours of Jeanne de Navarre

Exhibitions: 
Gyldne Böger, held at the National Museum in Copenhagen, April 1952 to May 1952. 
Gyllenne böcker, held at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, May 1952 to September 1952.
Gyllene böcker. Nyförvärv och nyupptäckter, held at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, December 1987 to March 1988.

Literature:
Abel, Ulf, and Nils Göran Hökby (eds.), Gyllene böcker. Nyförvärv och nyupptäckter (Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 1987), nr 38, p 43.

Backhouse, Janet, ‘A Victorian Connoisseur and His Manuscripts: The Tale of Mr. Jarman and Mr. Wing’ in The British Museum Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3/4 (Spring, 1968), pp. 76-92.

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, The Book of Hours of Yolande of Flanders: A Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson (London: Whittingham at the Chiswick Press, 1905).

Dearden, J.S., The Library of John Ruskin (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2012), p. 180.

Delisle, Léopold, Recherches sur la librairie de Charles V, 2 vols (Paris: Champion, 1907), I, no. XXXI, pp. 214-18.

Detailed record for Yates Thompson 27 at the British Library, https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=6440&CollID=58&NStart=27

Gludovatz, Karin and Michaela Krieger, ‘La contesse de Bar, Jean le Noir, enlumineur, et Bourgot, sa fille, enlumineresse de livres: zu Konzeption und Ausführung der Heures de Flandre’ in Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, 64 (2003), 83-124.

Nordenfalk, Carl, Bokmålningar från medeltid och renässans i Nationalmusei samlingar (Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 1979), nr 15, pp.68-69.

Reynolds, Catherine, ‘Makers of Royal Manuscripts: Court Artists in France and the Netherlands’, in 1000 Years of Royal Books and Manuscripts, ed. by Kathleen Doyle and Scot McKendrick (London: The British Library, 2013), pp. 131-48 (p. 136).

Rouse, Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse, Manuscripts, and their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 2000), I, p. 266.
Sandgren, Eva Lindqvist, Illuminated Manuscripts in Swedish Collections, 
https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record%3A471052&dswid=-6776

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