Breviary
Accession number:
MS M.1065
Title:
Breviary
Created:
Lille, France, 1475-1525.
Binding:
Original brown calf over wooden boards, with ornamented panel stamp signed: Robiers Plovrins.
Credit:
Gift of Mrs. S.R. Knapp, 1985.
Description:
269 leaves (2 columns, 27 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 149 x 107 mm
Provenance:
Charles d'Amman; George Baker; his sale, New York, American Art Association, Jan. 3, 1923, lot 435; Mrs. S.R. Knapp.
Notes:
Ms. breviary, winter portion, use of the collegiate church of St.-Pierre at Lille (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, calendar); written and illuminated in France, probably Lille, late 15th or early 16th century.
Decoration: numerous illuminated initials, filigree initials, and geometric line fillers.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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