Accession number:
MS M.1051.1-3
Title:
Three leaves from a book of hours
Created:
Loire River Valley, France, ca. 1515-1520.
Credit:
M.1051.1: Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager, 1984.
Description:
3 single leaves (1 column, 18 lines) : vellum, ill. 107 x 76 mm
Provenance:
Mr. Monmerqué; P.D. (P. Durand?); Paul and Julien Durand; Richard Day Ltd., London.
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated in the Loire River Valley, France, ca. 1515-1520.
Decorations: 3 miniatures, 3 full illuminated borders, 14 illuminated initials, 5 illuminated line fillers.
Artist: the miniatures show close similarity to a Book of Hours by the Master of Claude of France in Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, MS 291.
Leaf M.1051.1: Germander Speedwell (Veronica Chamaedrys), Ladybug (recto). Text: Hours of the Virgin, Lauds, incomplete (recto, verso); 66 x 44 mm
Leaf M.1051.2: Daffodil (Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus), Beetle (recto). Suffrage to St. George (recto, verso), Suffrage to St. Eustace, incomplete (verso); 66 x 41 mm
Leaf M.1051.3: Chicory (Chicorium Intybus), Dragonfly (recto); Suffrage to St. Andrew (recto, verso); 66 x 41 mm
Script:
bastarda
Language:
Latin
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