(Q43098)
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Firmin-Didot, Ambroise, 1790-1876
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Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
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Illuminations (paintings)--France--15th century
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Books of hours--France--15th century
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between 1485 and 1499
15. century
1485Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: ff. ii + iv + 162 + ii : parchment ; 115 x 173 mm
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Book of Hours written at the end of the fifteenth century in France with the use of Chartres in the hours of the Virgin and in the office of the dead; the saints of the calendar also suggest Chartres.
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Span folios: ff. 1-162v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 18 28(-1, the Gospel of John) 3-208 214(-4). One catchword, f. 15v, in the script of the text, written horizontally, to the right of the inner bounding line. 20 long lines through f. 127v (quire 16), thereafter 21 long lines; ruled space, 100 x 54 mm, in a very faint brownish ink. Written in a bâtarde script in two sizes according to...
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Decoration: Twelve large miniatures above 3 lines of text in squared frames, in an unusual style, the figures being painted with large heads and in dark tones, possibly by more than one artist. Small miniatures, ca. 50 x 30 mm., placed in the band border which runs the length of the text, in the outer margin. 6-line initial on f. 11 formed by a 2-headed snake biting branches with both mouths...
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/16/2009.
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The first owner may have been a woman as the prayers occasionally contain feminine forms (ff. 119v, 123v, 125v, 150, 160). A note on f. ii reads "Je suis a Demoiselle Jeanne de Malherbe, 1567." Belonged to A. Firmin Didot; his sale, Paris, 16 June 1883, n. 12 to Labitte. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Grolier Club (1892) n. 58; Cat. (1909) pp. 57-59; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. III, n...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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