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CH147 Book of hours leaf

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€2 200.00 (Marge regeling)

( Manuscript )

15.0 x 10.5 cm (5.9 x 4.1 inch)

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A wonderful vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, written at the end of the Middle Ages, around 1480, in Angers on the river Loire.

This region was well known for the many workshops for Books of Hours and many masters who worked there, as Jouvenel, Robinet Tesard and the Master of the Geneva Boccaccio, became famous.

This leaf is from the beginning of the Book, the Hours of the Blessed Virgin, Terce, the Annunciation to the Shepherds. In the sky is an angel with the banner that must have told : Gloria in excelsis Deo, but the words are no longer readable. One shepherd holds up his arm to protect his eyes from the fierce light.

The decorations in the margins are colourful and bright: acanthus leaves and flowers on a gold back ground. The initial 'D 'is very nice!


Last Updated: Wednesday, 10 March 2010 07:47

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