Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in France at the turn of the fifteenth century. Span folios: ff. 1-143v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 16 28 32(to f. 16) 4-58 68(-8) 7-98 108(-7) 118(-1) 12-198 202. Catchwords written vertically along the inner bounding line. Ruled space, 107 x 60 mm; 22 long lines ruled in pale red ink. Written in a bâtarde script. Decoration: Thirteen full page miniatures, in painted gold architectural frames, often with colored marble panels or columns. Thirty-two smaller miniatures, 11- or 10-line. In the calendar, illustrations of the monthly occupations with the zodiac symbols usually in monochrome blue. Major initials, 6-line, in white-patterned blue with infilling on gold ground of a realistic flower, the whole... Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 10/18/2009. Written for owners whose monograms BL and BI [?] tied with a lovers' knot, appear 24 times in the borders; one of the B's may indicate Bartholomew, a suffrage of that saint being included in this book. Owned by Philippe, comte de Béthune whose books passed to his son Hippolyte; he, in turn, bequeathed them to Louis XIV in 1658. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Cat. (1909) pp. 95-96; at that time kept...
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