USC Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts

Decorations- Book of Hours Use of the Netherlands

Full complete book of hours with calendar and six beautifully designed, illuminated and colored full-page miniatures, encircled by richly decorated and colored borders consisting of flowers and leaves. Opposite each miniature a text-leaf with a large 6-line illuminated initial, the text encircled by richly illuminated, colored borders matching those of the miniatures, each of these text-leaves and each miniature framed by a single gilt line-border and colored line-borders. Each page of the calendar with an oblong illuminated, gilt initial, six large five-line illuminated initials, gilt and colored, one at the beginning of each hour of the Virgin. 

All pages with these initials have three-side illuminated and colored boards, depicting flowers and leaves. More than one hundred two-line illuminated initials, gilt and colored and numerous one-line gilt initials and one-line colored initials in red and blue. The four leaves of the litany were alternately gilt and rend-and-blue initials to each line, remains of the lines filled out with blue ornamentation. Rubricated throughout. Large, regular script in red and brown. A few leaves with cont. marginal annotations.
 

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