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Leaf from a Book of Hours
Illuminator: Bourdichon, Jean
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 160 x 103 mm (95 x 55 mm), 21 long lines ruled in pale brown ink on verso
CONTENTS: Terce of the Hours of the Virgin (continued on the verso with response, hymn and Psalm 119)
DECORATION: Miniature with arched top, framed in gold: Betrayal and Arrest of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane with Christ, Judas and other figures depicted half-length against a dark blue sky, with highlights in gold chiaroscuro, and full-border of pink and blue acanthus sprays on a gold ground, incorporating floral motifs, birds, a frog, and a monkey mounted on a dragon (recto).
ORNAMENTATION: One-sided, vertical border in the outer margin of pink and blue acanthus and floral sprays on gold ground, incorporating a bird (verso); grey and white initial [D, 3 ll.] filled with gold on pink ground, enclosing sprays of blue, yellow and white pansies (recto); foliate initials [1-2 ll.] in maroon and gold on blue grounds, blue and white on maroon grounds, and white and gold on maroon grounds, one with a fly and another with an animal head in the bowls; line fillers of white and gold foliate motifs on blue and pink grounds, and others in brown and gold in the form of branches (verso).
History note: Charles de Martigny (d.1512); Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912); his bequest, 1912.
Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
15th Century, Late#
Circa
1485
-
1494
Support
composed of
parchment
Page
Height 160 mm
Width 103 mm
Text
Height 95 mm
Width 55 mm
Accession number: Marlay cutting Fr. 4
Primary reference Number: 209062
Project ID: 1351
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Leaf from a Book of Hours" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/209062 Accessed: 2024-11-02 14:37:02
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