Book of Hours, use of Tours
Medieval Manuscripts
Item Info
Item No: mca1280351
Additional Title: Book of Hours, use of Tours
Script:
Gothic bookhand
Language: Latin
Folio Number: f. 35r
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:
This manuscript has been dated to ca. 1490.
Notes: Nativity
Notes: This miniature, which begins Prime of the Hours of the Virgin, was painted by a follower of Jean Bourdichon, a French illuminator active in Tours at the end of the fifteenth century. Bourdichon, who was the court painter to a succession of kings of France, led one of the most prolific workshops in France at this time. The artist who painted the miniatures in this book of hours may have been one of his assistants or students.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1606325
Country: Country:France
City/Town/Township:Tours ?
Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1499
Image Dimensions Width: 197 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E 128
Creator Name: Jean Bourdichon, follower of - Artist
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