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Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours" – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1475 CE · France (Northern) · 195 x 142 (85 x 62) mm

F-7o3e

Columbia, MO, Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Missouri, 2003.2
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Latin
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KL Janvier a xxxi iour. La lune xxx./ Le jour de lan.../...S' Mettran. Calendar page for January (includes St. Rigobert on Jan. 8 instead of Jan. 4; Firminus - presumably the Translation - on Jan. 12 instead of Jan. 1; and Metrannus on 31 January, a Paris commemoration), 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: Man seated at a table eating (labor of the Month for January, Feasting); Verso: Man pouring water, representing Aquarius. Dismembered in the 1990s. This leaf acquired by the Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Missouri, in 2003.

(Lisa Fagin Davis)
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Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours"

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1475 CE · France (Northern) · 195 x 142 (85 x 62) mm

F-7o3e

Columbia, MO, Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Missouri, 2003.2

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Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours" – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1475 CE · France (Northern) · 195 x 142 (85 x 62) mm

F-7o3e

Columbia, MO, Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Missouri, 2003.2

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Century
  • 15th century
Text Language
  • Latin
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  • Northern Textualis
Illuminated
  • Yes
Liturgica
  • Book of hours

Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours" Calendar: January

F-7o3e

Columbia, MO, Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Missouri, 2003.2
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Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours", Columbia, MO, Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Missouri, 2003.2
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