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A vertical vellum page displays dense rows of black gothic script. Each line starts with a stylized red or blue initial set against a gold square, while patterned bars fill empty spaces. A wide, intricate border on the right features winding blue and gold scrolls intertwined with red and blue flowers and green leaves. Faint red lines frame the composition against the cream vellum, accented by delicate dots of gold throughout the foliage.

Book of Hours (Use of Rouen): fol. 37r

c. 1470

Master of the Geneva Latini

(French, active Rouen, 1460–80)
France, Rouen
ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Codex: 19.5 x 13.1 cm (7 11/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
Gift of the Feiss family in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Feiss 1952.227.37.a
Location: 113 French Tapestries & Illuminated Manuscripts(not visible)

Description

In the late 1400s and early 1500s Rouen was an established and important center of book production. The city’s cathedral had a wealthy chapter that spent large sums of money to commission books and to maintain its extensive library. The stationers and booksellers would have likely been concentrated in or near the cathedral precinct. This artist, named after a manuscript now in Geneva, was Rouen’s principal illuminator during the second half of the 1400s.
  • W. Loring Andrews, NY
    Paul Louis Feiss, Cleveland
    W. Loring Andrews, NY; Paul Louis Feiss, Cleveland
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