Book of Hours written for use in Paris in the second half of the fifteenth century. Span folios: ff. 1-136v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-26 3-98(through f. 68) 10-128(through f. 92) 13-178 186(-5, 6). Catchwords have occasionally survived cropping and appear in the script of the text in the center lower margin. Ruled space, 90 x 57 mm; 16 long lines, ruled in pale red ink. Written in a gothic book hand. Decoration: Five large miniatures above 4 lines of text. Seven smaller miniatures, 50 x 38 mm., possibly by a different artist set in the left corner of the text block. 3-line initials in white-patterned blue on gold grounds with colored trilobe leaf infilling; 2- and 1-line initials in gold on dark pink grounds with blue infilling or vice versa; ribbon line fillers in the same colors... Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/16/2009. Names of early owners on the back pastedown: Manon dargilliere, francoise dargilliere. A sixteenth century owner was apparently Marie de Rebergues, whose name is stamped on the cover. A cancelled note on f. i identifies a seventeenth century owner as Anne Sa[?] Gaultier of Clermont, who obtained the book from her great-grandmother. Belonged to James Dix of Bristol; his sale, Sotheby's, 11...
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