Accession number:
MS S.20
Title:
[Calendrier de la vie humaine].
Created:
France or Belgium, 19th cent.
Binding:
19th-century black hardgrained morocco, gold tooled; folios are stab-sewn.
Credit:
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Description:
12 leaves (1 column, 19 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 162 x 110 mm
Provenance:
E. Clark Stillman Collection.
Notes:
Ms. gothic revival calendar and prayers; written and illuminated in France or Belgium, 19th century.
Decoration: 1 illuminated title page, 12 calendar vignettes, 1 historiated initial. The calendar images combine the Labors of the Month with the Dance of Death.
Scribe and Artist: signed Aubin Normand on fol. 11v.
Title given on frontispiece is: Calendrier de la vie humaine, editees en 1508 par Simon Vostre.
Script:
cursive
Language:
French and Latin
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