About This Artwork
Workshop of the Master of the Privileges of Ghent and Flanders
Flanders (Ghent or Tournai)
The Annunciation, from a Book of Hours1440/45
Manuscript with 230 folios, 12 full-page miniatures and other decorations in gold leaf, tempera and colored inks, and littera textualis inscriptions in Latin and French in dark black ink, ruled in red with red rubrics, on parchment, with two parchment fly leaves upper cover, three parchment fly leaves lower cover, sheets with gilded edges, in modern binding of brown morocco leather over wooden boards
190 x 135 mm (book); 115 x 100 mm (sheets)
Anonymous gift, 1915.538
Prints and Drawings
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