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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead: Two Devils (verso)

c. 1460

circle of Coëtivy Master

(French)
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Culture
France, Paris
Medium
ink, tempera and gold on vellum
Measurements
Leaf: 19.7 x 14.3 cm (7 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2005.206.b
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Description

As a time-saving device, illuminators in the 1450s and later would often paint identical borders on both sides of a leaf. The motifs would be drawn on one side and then traced on the other by holding the leaf against a window. Both sides of this leaf are therefore mirror images, containing elaborate floral borders, gold-leaf ivy vines, sprays of flowers or fruit, and a grotesque, in this case a bird with the head of a man. Also included is a roundel featuring two devils. This leaf is from a dismantled manuscript that included numerous painted roundels relating to the lives of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and the more obscure Saint Alexis.

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead: Two Devils (verso)

c. 1460

Coëtivy Master

(French)
France, Paris

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