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-3bfm
Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Charles Edwin Puckett Rare Books IM-4092
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"Attenuati sunt oculi mei.../...vitae nostrae, in domo Domini." Part of Isaiah 38 in Lauds, 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. Roundel miniature in the outer central margin of recto and verso.
Recto: A man in red and blue and wearing a crown sits on a throne. There is a halo around his head and the word "Dieu" at his side. The Virgin Mary in a blue dress kneels before him with her hands pressed together. They are in a room of blue and red decorated with gold designs.
Verso: An angel stands behind the Virgin Mary in blue robes. They are outside and next to a tree or bush and below a blue sky. At her feet is written "N[ot]re Dame".
Likely dismembered in the 1980s. This leaf offered by Charles Puckett Rare Books, stock number IM-4092, current location unknown.
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