(Q43293)

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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
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Extent: ff. ii + 168 + ii : parchment ; 137 x 195 mm
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Book of Hours written in the early fifteenth century in France; the suffrages to Godo and Maurus may suggest Verdun as the book's destination.
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Span folios: ff. 1-168v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1 (ff. 1-8, ff. 1-3, singletons, ruled, but blank, except for the now inappropriate rubric on f. 3v; ff. 4-5, center bifolium; ff. 6-8, singletons, with text following correctly) 2-48 58(-3, before f. 35, the opening leaf of none) 68 74(through f. 51) 8-148 158(-7, excised; through f. 114) 16-218 226. Catchwords, when present, usually in the...
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Decoration: Twenty-two large miniatures above 4 lines of text, both text and miniature enclosed by a U-shaped frame of narrow pink, blue and gold segments, growing out of the initial and sprouting ivy vines at the 4 corners; outer border of ivy vine with pink, blue and gold trilobe leaves. The miniatures have been attributed to the Master of Troyes by M. Meiss, French Painting in the Time of...
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Other decoration: 4-line initials in white-patterned pink or blue against cusped gold ground, infilled with colored trilobe leaves; 3-, 2-, and 1-line initials in alternating blue with careful red penwork, or gold with black; initials within the text touched in yellow. Jigsaw line fillers in blue and gold. Rubrics in red.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/18/2009.
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The first owner was apparently named William, and may have been connected with Bourges. Belonged to E. M. Bancel; his sale, Paris, 8 May 1882, n. 9 to Ellis. In the collection of E. Dwight Church, and in his Catalogue . . . of English Literature (1909) vol. 1, n. 399 with a plate of f. 41. The Church collection was acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1911.
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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