(Q2711)
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Anne of Brittany (1477-1514) and her husband Louis XII (1462-1515, king of France 1498-1515); C. L. Ricketts, bought from Joseph Martini, 1914; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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Anne of Brittiany, Louis XII
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s. XV/XVI; 1490-1510
15. century
16. century
1490Gregorian
1510Gregorian
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Binding: Not bound.
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Figurative details, 5 cuttings: Multiple-shaped compartments of blue and gold acanthus leaves on blue or plain grounds dotted in black, or of coloured flowers on liquid gold grounds dotted in black, one with a bird, (a) vertical, a left-hand margin, 371 mm. by 59 mm., including the letter ‘A’ in rustic design in gold enclosing the heraldic ermine of Brittany, verso with the extreme ends of...
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Music, 5 cuttings: Evidence of muscial staves.
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Layout, 5 cuttings: Five strips of border ornament.
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Manuscript note: Similar excised strips of borders, trimmed to shape exactly like the Ricketts fragments, are in Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Mn. Mas 141 (five strips, cf. Notice des dessins 1927, p. 10, no. 30); Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 4012 (five album pages of strips and small initials, cf. Finke 1966, pp. 43–45, no. 62, pls. 18–19); and Tours, Bibliothèque...
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Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 633.
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5 cuttings: Coat of arms: including the royal arms of France surmounted by a crown and two panels with alternating lozenges of the fleur-de-lys of France and the ermine of Brittany. These borders are from a vast and opulent choirbook filled with the devices and initials of Anne of Brittany and the royal arms of France, including the initials ‘A’ (Anne) and ‘L’ (Louis), which dates the...
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5 cuttings: Latin.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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