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Physical Description Book of Hours Use of Rome, Northern France
1media/BoHF_Bind2.JPG2020-03-14T11:24:30-07:00Micaela Rodgers4f64ed17cdc860d24de738ffbad6fc87bc98886f354884plain2020-10-06T14:14:36-07:00Micaela Rodgers4f64ed17cdc860d24de738ffbad6fc87bc98886fIlluminated Manuscript on vellum. Horae BMV. Book of Hours, use of Rome. Northern France and/or Bruges, ca. 1460-1470. Thick 8vo, 172 leaves (including the last two blanks, ruled), 193 by 135 mm. With 10 full-page miniatures framed by decorative borders, 7 pages framed by borders in gold and colors, numerous elaborate 4- to 6-line initials, and hundreds of smaller ones in gold and colors; all with marginal extensions. And with the portrait of a bishop saint cut out of an Italian 15th-century ms pasted on fol. 1r. Written in Latin in a gothic miniscule, headings in French, generally in red. In a richly blind-tooled French binding bearing the name I.A Gontier (or Goutier) on the back cover, gilt and gauffered edges with a fore-edge painting of the period.
Source: John Windle, Antiquarian Book Seller (March 24, 2014).