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Ɵ Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment
Ɵ Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment
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Ɵ Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern France (Paris or Rouen), c. 1480-90]

87 leaves (plus 2 original endleaves at front and back), with many leaves cut away, leaving just text leaves and a single Calendar leaf (March), ruled in red for single column with 17 lines of lettre bâtarde, capitals touched in yellow, rubrics in blue, one- and 2-line initials in liquid gold on blue and burgundy grounds heightened with white penwork, line-fillers in same, Calendar month name and crucial dates in liquid gold, each page with a decorated panel border of coloured foliage and fruit on a dull-gold or blank parchment ground (many of these grounds in interlocking shapes), some spots and stains, Calendar leaf loose in volume, other leaves becoming detached, overall good condition, 160 by 115mm.; in nineteenth-century green velvet (worn in places) over thin pasteboards (both bowed slightly), but binding structures earlier and reusing parts of a fifteenth-century French document to support top and base of spine, spine fallen away and front board now held by spine supports and velvet there, richly patterned doublures with coloured and gilt flowers and a spider

Thought in the eighteenth century to come from the library of Catherine de Medici: an inscription of that date on the front endleaf: Les heurs viennes de feut la Reine Chaterine de Medisis - famme de feut henry deuxiesm[e] Roy de France.
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Ɵ Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment

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