Script: Gothic characters in red and brown ink. Decoration: Twelve large miniatures within elaborate scroll, fruit and floriated borders. Illuminated initials and line endings. Binding: Rebound by R.R. Donnelly and Sons, 1967. Full brown morocco with gold tooling. Gauffered edges. Dark green morocco case. Both the text and the miniatures are well preserved. Pages numbered in a modern hand. Provenance: On the last leaf is written in an early hand: "Cette heuers appartiennent a damoiselle Françoise Gommes" and the date 1604. The preceding page has the signature "G A Fruye" with the date 1630 worked into a scroll which is part of the signature." Provenance: Huth copy with Huth leather book label. Huth sale, June 1913, No. 3817. Acquired by Alfred C. Chapin from L.C. Harper on January 3, 1916. Acquired October 1938 as a gift of Mrs. Chapin. Origin: Possibly Northern France. Figures are generally of the late International Gothic style.
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