(Q1732)
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Maître François, style of
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Written in France in the fourth quarter of the fifteenth century. The ownership portrait on f. 29 and the feminine forms in several prayers indicate that the book was made for a woman.
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s. XV(4/4); 1475-1499
15. century
1475Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Binding: Bound s. XVII in dark brown leather stamped with patterns of leaves in gold, clasps missing; edges of book block dusted with gold.
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Figurative details, ff. 1-260v: Decoration in the general style of Maître François; the faces and backgrounds in many images are damaged or flaking. Twenty-three large miniatures in arched compartments, some with serrated tops, above three or four lines of script; the outer borders vary, many consist of multicolored acanthus, flowers and leaves and gold and black dots, either plain or divided...
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Other decoration, ff. 1-260v: Major initials, 3- or 4-line, in white-patterened blue on a gold ground with infilling of blue and red leaves on a vine. One 3-line initial at f. 26, white patterned blue on a gold-patterned red ground. 2-line initials in gold with gold-patterned red and blue grounds and infilling; several of these initials contain pictures instead of abstract patterns. 1-line...
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Script, ff. 1-260v: Gothic.
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ff. 1-260v: Latin.
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ff. 1-260v: f. i: Added in a later hand (s.. XVI): Je petit livre apartien a madame [erasure]; ff. 1-12v: Calendar in French; ff. 13-13v blank; ff. 14-21v: Pericopes of the Gospels; ff. 22-40v: Prayers to the Virgin, including Obsecro te and O intemerata with masculine forms; ff. 41-52v: Passion according to John; ff. 54-125: Hours of the Virgin; ff. 125v-126 blank; ff. 127-145v: Penitential...
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We thank Gania Barlow for her description of this manuscript.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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