[LIGHTING]. [GOTHIC REVIVAL]. Collection... - Lot 46 - Ader

[LIGHTING]. [GOTHIC REVIVAL]. Collection of prayers in imitation of a medieval book of hoursIn Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment. France, circa 1900 (?). With 8 large miniatures, in the style of the Spanish Forger. 40 ff. preceded and followed by 4 ff. of white parchment, parchment ruled in red ink (justification: 100 x 70 mm), writing in imitation of liturgical Gothic script, headings in red, ornate endpapers, ornate initials and large initials painted in blue or pink with white highlights on a burnished gold background with coloured vine-leaf decoration, 8 large miniatures set in illuminated borders, unfinished manuscript with a space for a 9th miniature not made (fol. 32) but with illuminated border, some leaves with staves and notated music (ff. 31-31v39v-40). 20th century pastiche binding in full brown glazed calf on wood, spine with 3 nerves, boards with a cold decoration composed of bands with fleur-de-lis and acanthus leaves (spines and nerves rubbed, corners rubbed) Dimensions : 205 x 145 mm. The text presents universal prayers (Pater Noster, Credo, Kyrie, Agnus dei etc.) and excerpts from the Psalms arranged as in a book of hours without the elements of a complete book of hours (Hours of the Virgin and eight canonical hours). Illustrations: f. 2, Annunciation. - f. 7, Visitation, in the presence of Joseph - f. 14, Adoration of the Magi - f. 18, Flight into Egypt - f. 22, Crucifixion. - f. 24, The Descent from the Cross and the Pietà. - f. 28, The Resurrection. - f. 38, Trinity. On the troubadour style and neo-Gothic illumination, see: Martin, I. "Rêve médiéval et invention contemporaine. Variations sur l'enluminure en France au XIXe siècle", The Revival of Medieval Illumination: Nineteenth-Century Belgium Manuscripts, T. Coomans and J. De Meyer (ed.), Leuven, 2007, pp. 109-135; Hindman, S. et al. Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age: Recovery and Reconstruction, Evanston, 2001.