SS Peter and Paul, fragment from a Book of Hours

An image of Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Fragment of Book of Hours (leaf from FM 54). Use of Sarum. Parchment, 161 x 96 (100 x 68) mm, 20 long lines, ruled in ink. Production Place: Flanders, possibly Bruges. Circa 1480 to circa 1490.
Suffrages; SS Peter and Paul, St Andrew. 2 small miniatures (recto, SS Peter and Paul; verso, St Andrew) in gold frames inset in text, gold initials [2 l.] on blue and pink with white, three-quarter acanthus borders with foliate motifs, bright red rubrication.

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Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Fragment of Book of Hours (leaf from FM 54). Use of Sarum. Parchment, 161 x 96 (100 x 68) mm, 20 long lines, ruled in ink. Production Place: Flanders, possibly Bruges. Circa 1480 to circa 1490. Suffrages; SS Peter and Paul, St Andrew. 2 small miniatures (recto, SS Peter and Paul; verso, St Andrew) in gold frames inset in text, gold initials [2 l.] on blue and pink with white, three-quarter acanthus borders with foliate motifs, bright red rubrication.

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Accession Number: MS 1262-1985
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Andrew Morris
Image height: 1687 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 374.66kB

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