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Book of Hours, use of Rome,
Illuminated manuscript on vellum written in Latin.
Italy, Florence, c. 1475-1490.
Book of Hours, use of Rome,
Illuminated manuscript on vellum written in Latin. Italy, Florence, c. 1475-1490.
Book of Hours, use of Rome,
Illuminated manuscript on vellum written in Latin. Italy, Florence, c. 1475-1490.
Book of Hours, use of Rome,
Illuminated manuscript on vellum written in Latin. Italy, Florence, c. 1475-1490.
Book of Hours, use of Rome,
Illuminated manuscript on vellum written in Latin. Italy, Florence, c. 1475-1490.
Book of Hours, use of Rome,
Illuminated manuscript on vellum written in Latin. Italy, Florence, c. 1475-1490.
Book of Hours, use of Rome,
Illuminated manuscript on vellum written in Latin. Italy, Florence, c. 1475-1490.
Book of Hours, use of Rome,
Illuminated manuscript on vellum written in Latin. Italy, Florence, c. 1475-1490.
Book of Hours, use of Rome,
Illuminated manuscript on vellum written in Latin. Italy, Florence, c. 1475-1490.
This work is now sold.
Decorated with luxurious white-vine-stem ornamentation and seven unusual historiated initials in full borders, this small volume is light and manageable. Its size suggests that it was intended as a travel prayer book for its owner, possibly a learned member of the Dominican order. Another notable aspect of this newly-discovered Book of Hours is its design and layout, both so unconventional for a devotional manuscript that one is tempted to surmise that the scribe and illuminator were usually engaged in the production of literary and humanistic works.
