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This English manuscript was made in the nineteenth-century, using an extremely fine parchment. It contains the fifty-third chapter of the Book of Isaiah, in English translation. The small book is comprised of eight folios written and decorated on the rectos, leaving the versos blank. Script and decoration suggest that the book was conceived to imitate the style of fourteenth or fifteenth century French illumination. The creators Eleanor Taylor and James Slie signed the book in the title page, and declared their intended revival of this tradition. Each folio is embellished with border decoration showing narratives of Christ's life, as well as zoomorphic and foliate motifs in a palette of blue, red, and gold leaf. The contemporary binding is painted with with a coat of arms penned with the motto "GANG WARILY." Although the manuscript has traditionally been considered to be of English origin, the armorial shield points to a Scottish use. To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
Folio 65r - the perindens tree, continued. - The Aberdeen Bestiary - MS 24
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Folio 5v (detail).
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Folio 6v (detail).
This fine illuminated Book of Hours was produced in two stages in the second and third quarters of the fifteenth century. The manuscript contains eleven full-page miniatures and twenty historiated initials. The first stage of production includes a section attributed to the Masters of Zweder van Culemborg and the calendar (fols. 3r-14v, 52v-211v), while additional prayers illustrated in the style of the workshop of Willem Vrelant were added later in the fifteenth century (fols. 16r-50v, 213r-223r), presumably when the book was bound in its present binding. The Hours of the Virgin is for the Use of Rome. The Use of the Office of the Dead is unidentified, but the calendar is for the Use of Utrecht. The two separate parts of the manuscript were bound together in Flanders. The sections of W.168 attributed to the Masters of Zweder van Culemborg have been compared to Utrecht, Utrecht University Ms. 1037; Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum James Ms. 141; the second hand in New York, Pierpont Morgan Library Ms. M.87; Stockholm, Royal Library A 226, and Philadelphia, Free Library Lewis Ms. 88. To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
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Limbourg Brothers Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry: Astrological Man c. 1416 Illumination on vellum, 290 x 210 mm Musée Condé, Chantilly
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