Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours" – Fragment
Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1500 CE · France (Northern) · 195 x 142 (85 x 62) mmF-ckr3
Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Bruce Ferrini Rare Books I. 84
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...autem profecti pr[a]edicaverunt...[no image of verso]. The end of the Gospel Reading for St. Mark and the beginning of "Obsecro te", from a fifteenth-century Book of Hours known as the St. Alexis Hours. Full border of acanthus and rinceaux in gold and colors with birds and other creatures. Roundel miniature in the outer central margin of recto and verso. Recto: Virgin and Child seated in a garden; [no image of verso]. On the recto, historiated initial [O] with a nobly-gowned woman standing on a path gazing a a heavenly aperture above. Dismembered in the 1990s. This leaf offered by Bruce Ferrini, Catalogue 1, no. 84, current location unknown.
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Lisa Fagin Davis
