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

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1500 CE · France (Noerthern) · 195 x 142 (85 x 62) mm

F-e4l3

Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Christie's 9 Dec. 2020, lot 13
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Latin
Reconstruction Summary

....speravi tu exaudies me.../[no image of verso]. Penitential Psalms, Psalm 37:16 "speravi" - 20 "autem mei vivent," 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: Crowned man enthroned labeled "le[m]p[er]e[ur]", a richly-dressed woman standing before him labeled "le[m]p[er]is", accompanied by a male servant; [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 Christie's 9 Dec. 2020, lot 13, current location unknown.

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

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1500 CE · France (Noerthern) · 195 x 142 (85 x 62) mm

F-e4l3

Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Christie's 9 Dec. 2020, lot 13

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Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours" (Fragment), Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Christie's 9 Dec. 2020, lot 13 (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-e4l3)

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

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1500 CE · France (Noerthern) · 195 x 142 (85 x 62) mm

F-e4l3

Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Christie's 9 Dec. 2020, lot 13

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

Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours" Penitential Psalms

F-e4l3

Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Christie's 9 Dec. 2020, lot 13
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Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours", Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Christie's 9 Dec. 2020, lot 13
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