Monypenny and Mary Queen of Scots make a lively sale
Bid to £1.35m at Christie’s (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) this summer, as part of a ‘Classic Week’ evening sale of paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculpture and decorative arts of all ages, was a lavishly illustrated Book of Hours attributed to the Master of the Monypenny Breviary and associates.
Thought to have been produced in Bourges c.1490, it may have been made for Marie de Balsac, first …