Book of Hours – Fragment
Parchment · 1 leaf · 1451 – 1500 CE · France · 175 x 122 mmF-3q5v
Zürich, Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, LM 51690.5
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France
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Switzerland
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Zürich
Summary
One of six parchment leaves from a book of hours, written in bastarda and datable to the second half of the 15th century. It contains illuminated initials, executed in gold on a background alternating between blue and pink; ornamental vine scrolls, sketched in pen and decorated with trifoliate leaves, extend from the initials to the margin. This fragment contains a part of the Litany of the Saints.
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