Leaf from a Book of Hours / Artist Unknown, France
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1993/2.9
- Title
- Leaf from a Book of Hours
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, France
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Medium and Support
- ink, tempera and gold on parchment
- Object Creation Date
- 1400-1425
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Credit Line
- Anonymous Gift in memory of Mrs. John Alexander
- Style/Group/Movement
- Gothic
- Dimensions
- 18.2 cm x 12.7 cm (7 3/16 in. x 5 in.)
- Century
- 15th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Books and Folios
- Physical Description
- This manuscript page contains a column of Latin text surrounded by generous margins. A pair of slender flowers with small green leaves run the length of the text along the left margin. Three decorated initials appear on the left edge of the text block. Each initial is painted gold on a pink and blue ground with white scrollwork and enclosed within a frame. Two rectangular line-fillers, colored pink and blue with white scrollwork, appear in the right half of the text column.
- Subject Matter
- This illuminated manuscript page was taken from a book of hours, a type of personal devotional book that enjoyed widespread popularity from the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries and contained sets of daily prayers, or "offices." The text here comes from the Little Office of the Virgin Mary, who was a central figure in Christian devotion during this period.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 838 x 1143
- File Size
- 87 KB
- Record
- 1993/2.9
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"Leaf from a Book of Hours; Artist Unknown, France." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1993-sl-2.9/1993_2.9rec.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.
