Title

Leaf from Lauds, Hours of the Virgin, France, [Paris?] Catalogue 8

Alternative Title

Catalogue 8

Creator

University of South FloridaTampa Campus Library

Files

Publication Date

January 2001

Abstract

recto and verso: Borders decorated with various flowers and plants. Several illuminated letters and line fillers. Bas-de-page illuminations depicting animals in comic and satirical scenes.

Notes

Text in Latin. Original image found in: Sacred leaves books of hours: illuminated devotion. Text identification: Hours of the Virgin, lauds: lines 2-14 of psalm 148 and 1-4 of psalm 149. This leaf was purchased from Sotheby's in 1984. Sotheby's, Western manuscripts and miniatures, London, July 3, 1984, lot 84. Sister leaves from the same manuscript can be found in Maggs Bros. Ltd., London, 1999, (Catalgoue 1283), lot 41 and Stephen Fliegel, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn collection of manuscript illuminations, Cleveland museum of art, Cleveland, 1999, p. 63. Items in this collection are only available online; we do not have physical copies of these items in the USF Library's Special Collections. The original items were returned to the donor.

Keywords

Manuscripts, Latin, France, Illumination of books and manuscripts

Description

[1] leaf : vellum ; 18.2 X 13 cm.

Subject: topical

Manuscripts, Latin; Illumination of books and manuscripts

Subject: geographic

France

Genre

illuminated manuscripts

Format

application/pdf

Holding Location

University of South Florida

Identifier

S04-00120-alg8-02-R

Recommended Citation

University of South FloridaTampa Campus Library, "Leaf from Lauds, Hours of the Virgin, France, [Paris?] Catalogue 8" (2001). Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection. 101.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/sacred_leaves/101