(Q43203)
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Book of hours (Diocese of Salisbury, England)
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Long Island Historical Society. Library
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Miniatures (Painting)--France--15th century
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Illuminations (paintings)--France--15th century
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Books of hours--France--15th century
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between 1400 and 1415
15. century
1400Gregorian
1415Gregorian
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Extent: ff. ii + 80 + ii : parchment ; 135 x 192 mm
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Book of Hours, use of Sarum, written possibly in northern France for export to England in the early fifteenth century.
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Span folios: ff. 1-80v. Support: Parchment. Layout: The book now consists entirely of singletons sewn together in groups of 4 and bearing on the first recto in pencil in a modern hand the signatures a-u; no catchwords. Ruled space, 122 x 80 mm; 24 long lines, ruled in pale red ink. Written in a gothic book hand.
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Decoration: Seven full page miniatures, blank on the recto; several are misbound. Very simple sketches of human figures on ff. 10, 49v, 66v, 67v, 70 (more capable, representing Jesus), 73v and 74. On the leaves facing these miniatures, 8- or 7-line initials in white-patterned orange or blue with colored trilobe leaf and vine infilling against a cusped gold ground; narrow bar border of color...
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/25/2009.
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Ownership notes of the sixteenth century on f. 5v, George brakye ba[...?], John bra[...?], Tomas conyers, Robert cony[...?]; on f. 12v,...george Conyers; on f. 49v, George Conyers ave this bouke and so ffourthe, Finis. Sale by G. A. Leavitt, New York, 6 February 1888, n. 164. Acquired by Samuel Bowne Duryea, with his bookplate on the front pastedown; bequeathed with other material to the Long...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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