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Book of Hours – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1451 – 1500 CE · France · 160 x 122 mm

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Zürich, Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, LM 51690.3
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Origin: France
Provenance: Switzerland
Provenance: Zürich
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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. One of the fragments (no. 5‬‬‬‬‬) contains a part of the Litany of the Saints.

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