Document signed ('Marye the quene'). 17 lines in a neat secretary hand, on paper, countersigned by Sir John.,A grant of a weekly Friday market and two annual fairs to Lyme Regis. Mary gives a warrant to an unidentified official to draw up the grant for the town of 'Kings Lyme' [Lyme Regis] of a weekly Friday market and two annual three-day fairs in February and September: the grants to include all stallage, piccage [a fee for breaking ground at a fair], tollage and customs with the court of piepowder [a special tribunal for actions during the market or fair], as well as the right of correcting weights and measures; those attending the fairs may not be 'suyd arrested or molested in any suyte ... except it be for acc[i]ons and suyts onely rysyng... w[i]t[h]in the seid Fayers'. 'Where at the humble suyte and peticion of the Burgesses of our Towne of Kings Lyme in our Countie of Dorsett, we are right welle contented and pleaced ... to give and graunte unto the Burgesses of our seid Towne and to their Successours forev[er] one m[ar]kett to be kepte weekely w[ith]in our seid Towne on the Friday forev[er], And also t[w]o Fayres yerely there to be holden and kept, that is to say thone Fayre to begynne the firste day of February yerely forev[er], And there to conynue three dayes then next folowyng, And thother Fayre to begynne the xx [20th] day of September yerely and there to continue for three days then next folowyng'. The grant for Lyme Regis was formally issued on 14 June. This charter falls at a lull in the turbulent first year of Mary's reign, between the quelling of Wyatt's Rebellion in February and the preparations for her marriage to Philip of Spain in July.

Tags:nLittera ScriptannNotes:n"...including music notation in neumes. nnProvenance:nThere is little doubt that the leaf has a Germanic origin and that it is mid-twelfth century in date. One feature of this leaf enables it to be more specifically attributed. This is the style of the ampersand and the letter 'g' which are exactly the same as on the leaf that was Lot 1 of the Korner sale at Sotheby's, 19th June 1990. That leaf was attributed to the workshop that supplied manuscripts for St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg during the period 1147-1167. The scribe of this leaf may either have worked in this workshop, or very close to it. One noted authority has suggested the leaf may be of Austrian origin.nnVerso: n26 lines of text in Latin written in dark brown ink in one column on parchment. A fine mid-12th century proto-gothic script in two sizes, rubrics in red. The Verso is decorated with ten initials of various sizes in bright red. There are no signs at all that the leaf has been ruled. There is a sewn repair to the vellum in the inside margin that was made before the leaf was written on which the scribe has carefully avoided. 11 lines include music notation in St Gall neumes (see Notes). The responses, versicles and antiphons (in the smaller script) are setto music using neumes written without staves. Where words of the chant are split to relate to the melody of the neumes, the parts are connected by red lines.nnRecto:nAs Verso with a further six lines with music notation and four red initials. At the top of Recto is a folio number CCXXXIII in a 13th or 14th century hand.nnSource:nProbably Southern Germany, Salzburg, but possibly Austria (see Provenance).nThis leaf has presumably been used as a cover for a later pastedown. A fold can be seen down the outside edge and all four edges have been trimmed, presumably to remove unsightly damage. The parchment is browned and there is a degree of surface dirt but overall the leaf is in remarkably good condition for its extreme age.,Measurements (w/o matboards): 30.75 cm x 16.5 cmnMeasurements (w/ matboards): 49 cm x 33.5 cm,Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439223/datastream/PDF/view

"...miniature cut from a Book of Hours possibly made for Étienne Chevalier, treasurer to king Charles VII of France, illuminated manuscript on vellum.nnMounted and framed. Provenance: Possibly from a Book of Hours produced in Tours for Étienne Chevalier (1410-1474), Royal Secretary, ambassador, art patron and Treasurer of France: the monogram of two 'E's joined by a tasseled cord found here in the upper margin is a device used by Chevalier in all of his manuscripts (the same device occurs, for example, throughout the dispersed miniatures of the Hours of Étienne Chevalier, mostly in the Musée Condée at Chantilly; in British Library Add. MS. 16997, another Book of Hours; in Harvard MS. Richardson 31, a French Boccaccio; and in the 'Petites Heures of Étienne Chevalier', sold at Sotheby's, 29 November 1990, lot 144).nnThe artist responsible for the illumination is, as in the 'Petites Heures of Étienne Chevalier', a follower of Jean Fouquet (1420-81), the preeminent painter of the 15th century and peintre du roy to King Louis XI. The work is attributable to the Charpentier Master, active in Tours in the final third of the 16th century, and named after a Book of Hours at Angers, Bib.Mun., MS.2049) made for Jean Charpentier, notary and secretary to King Charles VIII (1483-98). In Manuscrits à peintures en France, 1440-1520, p.288, Avril and Reynaud note that John Plummer (The Last Flowering, 1982) divided the Charpentier Master's work between the Masters of Morgan 366 and the Morgan 96. Plummer used the Morgan 96 designation for the hand with more monumental figures and the Morgan 366 Master for the illuminator with slighter figures: the A charming example of the work of the Charpentier Master, with a monogram tantalizingly suggestive of an original ownership by Étienne Chevalier, Treasurer of France."nn"Worlds Beyond: Fine Books and Manuscripts, Sale 19589, lot 5. June 6, 2020"nn"The miniature opening None in a Book of Hours. Mounted and framed. Provenance: Possibly from a Book of Hours produced in Tours for Étienne Chevalier (1410).nn...present leaf is closer to the Morgan 366 designation. The figures in the present cutting are particularly close to those in a manuscript of the Lamentations de saint Bernard, Paris, BnF, Fr.916.",Measurements: 10.5 cm x 10.75 cm (without frame); 20 cm x 20 cm (with frame),Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439466/datastream/PDF/view

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