Book of Hours with Hours of the Virgin

Provenance

Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.

Female owner, ca. 1275-1300; female owner, 14th century (see fols. 139r-139v, second of two prayers); usage altered to Roman, 15th/16th century; member of the Marcilly branch of the Damas family, of château located northwest of Autun, 1587, fol. ev; ownership entry, 1827, fol. fr; library of Mr. Le Chevalier de la Magdeleine Décédé à Chagny, 27 May, 1832 (see fol. f); signature below effaced; Henri-Auguste Brölemann of Lyon, ca. 1800-1850, his bookplate and blue-edged ticket inscribed 'A 38 / nx' on front pastedown, fragmentary ticket inscribed 'B[...]I / A. 38.' at base of spine; Madame Etienne Mallet, H. A. Brölemann's great-granddaughter; her sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 May 1926, lot 43, illus. (fols. 6v-7r); to Maggs for £330 (noted in marked sale catalogue, WAM library); notations in various hands, 19th/20th century: 'tx. cy / catalogué' in upper left corner of fol. av; 'BLH [Brölemann Livre d'Heures?] / c 7', penciled at lower left of Brölemann bookplate on front pastedown; 'Frs. 20000 / £800 / $4000.00', penciled on fol. av; '31' in ink, and '26/5/26 uisoo' penciled on fol. z; Leo S. Olschki, Florence, inv. no. 43351 / c. f.' on fol. av, 'Cons. L. S. O.' on bookplate by Maggs(?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926-1931, by purchase.