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| Keywords: Gaston Phoebus - Livre de la chasse - Google Art Project.jpg The Morgan Phoebus a book fit for a king was given to Ferdinand and Isabella a few years before 1492 when they retook Granada and added the pomegranate its symbol to their coat of arms As a sign of their ownership they commissioned a Castilian artist connected with Juan de Carrion to add this splendid ex libris to the manuscript The emblems in the inner border reflect the monarchs' conjugal bond for each used the one belonging to the initial of the other Ferdinand the yoke iugo the I and Isabella the arrow flecha the F The animals in the outer border offer a prelude to the manuscript as they are quoted from its miniatures About this exhibition The Morgan's lavishly illustrated Phoebus was made in Paris about 1407 as was one in the Bibliothèque nationale de France Of the forty-six surviving Phoebus manuscripts these two are the most magnificent This presentation includes forty-five images from Phoebus and five other images depicting the noble hunt Hunting was an important part of medieval life; kings and noblemen were expected to excel and take pleasure in the pursuit Some famous hunters wrote books on the subject whereas others collected and commissioned them Three of the most popular French treatises were written during the fourteenth century but others were also written in Spanish English and German Gaston III Count of Foix 1331 “1391 called Phoebus on account of his golden hair or handsome features wrote his hunting book late in life 1387 “89 sharing his knowledge in a field in which he claimed supremacy unlike in his two other pleasures in life arms and love The work dedicated to his fellow hunter and warrior Philip the Bold 1342 “1404 Duke of Burgundy comprises four books On Gentle and Wild Beasts On the Nature and Care of Dogs On Instructions for Hunting with Dogs and On Hunting with Traps Snares and Crossbow This manuscript may have been commissioned by Philip the Bold's son John the Fearless 1371 “1419 as a gift for Louis d'OrlĂ©ans 1372 “1407 If so it would date before 23 November 1407 when Louis was assassinated in Paris Years later it fell into the hands of a duke of Brittany probably Francis II r 1458 “88 who added his arms on folio 4 Before 1492 it was acquired by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain who added their magnificent full-page arms to the book folio 1v In 1928 Dr Rosenbach of Philadelphia bought the book from Thomas Fenwick heir of Sir Thomas Phillipps the vellomaniac for ÂŁ10 000 and offered it to J P Morgan Jr at the special price of 165 000 which Morgan declined There is no evidence that Fenwick ever offered it to Pierpont Morgan but Morgan might well have been interested Morgan was a breeder of collies and in 1893 he entered ten collies in the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden winning the silver cup for the best collie Sefton Hero The book remained unsold until 1943 when Rosenbach sold it to Clara S Peck who was a breeder and rider of horses for 65 000 Three years later she lent it to the Morgan for an exhibition on Sports and Pastime Thereafter through the continued efforts of the Morgan's first three directors Peck decided to bequeath it to the Morgan which she did on 20 April 1983 commons date commons medium commons dimensions commons institution http //www themorgan org/collection/livre-de-la-chasse/1 id 800 commons location commons references commons object_history commons exhibition_history commons credit_line commons inscriptions commons notes commons accession_number commons source commons permission commons other_versions commons zoom core title Livre de la chasse core creator Gaston Phoebus core date dateCreated 1406/1407 core type Manuscript core relation http //www themorgan org/collections/swf/exhibOnline asp id 800 art artist_date 1331/1391 art artist_nationality French c-089916f9 customlink more_info http //www themorgan org/collections/swf/exhibOnline asp id 800 c-089916f9 customtext credit_line Bequest of Clara S Peck 1983 google display_date 1406/1407 google is_artproject TRUE google is_gigapixel FALSE google is_secured TRUE google partner/id 00000000089916f9 google partner/name The Morgan Library Museum google picasa_token CGHOeUGrsZtpvRAyZ_zlgVJkTtY special url_id UAFGNFaYwN9mXw special partner/name_no_lang The Morgan Library Museum PD-old-100-1923 1391 Google Art Project works by Gaston PhĂ©bus Pierpont Morgan Library manuscripts Le Livre de chasse de Gaston PhĂ©bus 15th-century illuminated manuscripts from France | ||||
