Accession number
MS S.20
Object title
Calendrier de la vie humaine.
Display Date
19th cent.
Created
France or Belgium, 19th cent.
Binding
19th-century black hardgrained morocco, gold tooled; folios are stab-sewn.
Credit line
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.
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.
Contents
fol. 1r: Title page-- fols. 2r-7v: Calendar-- fols. 10r-11r: Oroison plaisant Sancte Marie-- fols. 11r-11v: Oroison devant l'image de la Benoite V. Marie. Ave Maria.
Script
cursive
Language
French and Latin
Century
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