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Hours, use of Paris
Title
Hours, use of Paris.
Created
France (Loire valley), [between 1450 and 1475]
Physical Description
ff. ii + ii + ii + 163 + ii + ii : parchment ; 180 x 125 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: The Calendar is copied by a scribe writing Northern Gothica Textualis Formata, Variant III in the Oeser system; the text is by another scribe, writing Variant IV in the Oeser system, in two sizes.
Headings in red. Heightening of the majuscules in yellow. Rectangular line-fillers in blue and red with white pernwork and some gold. 1-line dentelle initials with a blue and red background. 2-line foliate initials alternately in blue and red. These are accompanied by a rectangular unframed outer-margin acanthus border. Arch-topped miniatures above three lines of text, with 3-line foliate initial and full acanthus border, framed in red and often containing grotesques.
Binding: ca. 1600. Brown morocco over pasteboard, covers and spine elaborately gold-tooled. Gilt edges.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Albert Derolez.
Provenance
Sold (?) 1927 by Count Max Mielzynski to Frank Altschul, New York. Given by Margaret A. Lang in memory of Frank Altschul, 1986 (?).
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment. The illumination is influenced by the style of Jean Fouquet (d. 1480) and the manuscript belongs to a group that has been called the "Fouquet Workshop Books of Hours".
Publications
De Ricci, Census, p. 1651, no. 2. Stephen C. Clancy, Books of Hours in the "Fouquet Style": The Relationships of Jean Fouquet and the "Hours of Etienne Chevalier" to French Manuscript Illumination of the Fifteenth Century (dissert. Cornell University, 1988). id., "A New 'Fouquet Workshop' Book of Hours at the Beinecke Library", Manuscripta, 35 (1991), pp. 206-228, pls.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 17, 2010
References
Hours, Use of Paris. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Hours, Use of Paris. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - France - 15th century.
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