Grisaille Book of Hours 1460-70 CE Digitized Manuscripts

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Scanned from its Created Around 1460 AD original book to PDF and Quality Jpeg FilesonCDROM or DVDROMIlluminated manuscripts are handwritten books that have been decorated (illuminated) with gold, silver, or brilliant colors. Illuminations may include small illustrations (miniatures), initials, borders, or other decorative elements. They were used to indicate divisions in a text, to tell stories, and to add beauty and visually memorable elements to texts. The earliest surviving examples of such works date from late antiquity (third-fifth century). Manuscript illumination reached its high point in medieval Europe, when illuminators, working within workshops called scriptoria, produced illuminated psalters, Bibles, liturgical texts, illustrated saints’ lives, and other works. Illuminated manuscripts continued to be produced after the invention of printing, and printed books also were often illustrated with illuminations. Presented here are illuminated manuscripts produced in Europe between 764-83 and 1889, held in the collections of libraries and museums in Europe and North AmericaGrisaille Book of Hours550 Pages of PDF and JPEG flesAbstract This pocket-sized Book of Hours was created ca. 1460-70in Bruges, and its artist appears to have been influenced bythe famed Flemish illuminator Willem Vrelant. Most notableare the thirteen delicate grisaille (gray tone) miniatures, withtheir matching foliate borders. Although the original ownerremains unknown, an early inscription reveals that the bookwas gifted by an Italian lady to her female cousin withina few generations of its creation.Date Ca. 1460-1470 CEOrigin BrugesArtist Supplied name: Willem Vrelant circleForm BookGenre DevotionalLanguage The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.Support material ParchmentVery thin to medium-weight parchment, well selected andfinished; images on heavier inserted folios; flyleaves aremodern parchmentExtent Foliation: i+268+iModern pencil foliation, upper right corners, rectosCollation Formula: Quire 1: 4 (fols. 1-4); Quires 2-3: 6 (fols. 5-16);Quire 4: 8, with first folio cancelled and ninth folio added(fols. 17-24); Quires 5-6: 8 (fols. 25-40); Quire 7: 8, withfourth folio added (fols. 41-49); Quire 8: 8 (fols. 50-57);Quire 9: 8, with eighth folio cancelled and fifth folio added(fols. 58-65); Quire 10: 8, with fourth folio added (fols.66-74); Quire 11: 8, with second and ninth folios added (fols.75-84); Quire 12: 8 (fols. 85-92); Quire 13: 6, with firstfolio added (fols. 93-99); Quire 14: 8, with second and ninthGenerated: 2016-01-08 12:10 -05:00folios added (fols. 100-109); Quire 15: 10 (fols. 110-119);Quire 16: 8, with first and second folio added (fols. 120-129);Quire 17: 6, with third folio added (fols. 130-136); Quire18: 6, with third folio added (fols. 137-143); Quires 19-23: 8(fols. 144-183); Quire 24: 8, with second folio removed (fols.184-191); Quire 25: 8 (fols. 192-199); Quire 26: 8, with firstfolio added (fols. 200-208); Quires 27-28: 8 (fols. 209-224);Quire 29: 6, with sixth folio cancelled and conjectural sewingafter fol. 227 (fols. 225-229); Quire 30: 8, with first folioadded (fols. 230-238);Quire 31: 8, with second folio added(fols. 239-247); Quire 32: 8, with second folio added (fols.248-256); Quire 33: 8 (fols. 257-264); Quire 34: 4 (fols.265-268)Catchwords: Most still visible in lower margin on last versosof quiresComments:Dimensions 6.2 cm wide by 9.2 cm highWritten surface 3.6 cm wide by 5.1 cm highLayout Columns: 1Ruled lines: 13Layout does not apply to calendar: textblock is 3.5 x 5.9 cm,3 columns, 17 linesContents fols. 1r - 268v:Title: Book of HoursArtist: Willem Vrelant circleHand note: Italianate gothic rotundaDecoration note: Thirteen extant full-page grisailleminiatures (two missing); large decorated initials beginmajor divisions of text opposite f... read more

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