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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Text with Illustrated Border (verso)

c. 1510

France, Rouen

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Medium
ink, tempera, and liquid gold on vellum
Measurements
Each leaf: 17.9 x 12.8 cm (7 1/16 x 5 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2001.79.b
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The heart of every book of hours is the Hours of the Virgin, a set of prayers in which the reader asked the Virgin Mary to intercede on their behalf.

Description

This leaf came from a highly customized and lavish book of hours made in Rouen, a major center for book production. Intended for a female patron, the original book, to which the museum owns three leaves, contained numerous illuminations and marginalia. The book was whole until the 1980s, when it was dismembered and the leaves sold separately. Other leaves from the same book are now in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England. This leaf precedes the opening of the Hours of the Virgin and the traditional first scene of the Annunciation.
A vellum manuscript leaf features two vertical columns of dark Latin script within a gold frame. The full left column and partial right column sit above a faint, translucent figure. A vibrant border to the right displays a climbing vine with red and blue flowers, green leaves, and gray scrolls on a gold-flecked background. Thin red lines separate the script, all enclosed by a nested blue and gold rectangular border.

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Text with Illustrated Border (verso)

c. 1510

France, Rouen

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