Heures a l'usage de Rouen

1502

French 16th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    almanac [for 1502-1520] with 42 metalcut and engraved illustrations on vellum (16 full-page) decorated with hundreds of small and large illuminated initials, colored in gilt, blue, red, and light-blue

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    book: 17.5 × 12.4 × 3.4 cm (6 7/8 × 4 7/8 × 1 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.27.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Edouard Pelat (bookplate on front paste-down). Anonymous bookplate on first end-leaf. G. Mariat signed on frontispiece with date 1648. (Libreria antiquaria mediolanum, Milano); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on final end-leaf, a manuscript note in brown ink with the text of a Latin prayer "Domine non secundum peccata nostra"; lower paste-down in graphite at center: 128 carte / (not deciphered) / #03|13 / 77207| (circled:) #M13

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