Extent: approximately 190 unnumbered leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 10 x 9 cm
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Manuscript codex. Title from bookseller's description. Layout: Single column, 17 lines in a tiny gothic script. Calendar in a different (but still 15th century) hand from the bulk of the text. General description: "Red velvet binding, an early reback in matching cloth. Vellum pastedowns and endpapers with ink-ruled border, all edges gilt. Rubrics in red, "KL" of Kalends kilt on blue and pink background...With 20 miniatures framed with thin gold and painted bars and with full floral borders of blue and gold acanthus, orange flowers, thistles, blue-petalled flowers, strawberries, and... Detailed bookseller's description: Produced in Flanders for the English market, this petite Book of Hours contains a plenitude of miniatures. This manuscript omits the usual Nativity cycle normally found with the Hours of the Virgin, and instead uses a program of images related to Christ and His passion, beginning with the Agony in the Garden (f. 46v), through the Crucifixion (f. 90r), and...
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