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Book of Hours

A work made of manuscript with 259 folios, six miniatures and other decorations in tempera and gold leaf, with dutch inscriptions in littera textualis, in blackish brown ink, ruled in graphite, on parchment, in a modern binding of brown morocco over wooden boards, with stamped designs on the endbands, and with machine cut edges, marbled in red and blue.
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  • A work made of manuscript with 259 folios, six miniatures and other decorations in tempera and gold leaf, with dutch inscriptions in littera textualis, in blackish brown ink, ruled in graphite, on parchment, in a modern binding of brown morocco over wooden boards, with stamped designs on the endbands, and with machine cut edges, marbled in red and blue.

Date:

c. 1420 (20th century binding)

Artist:

Netherlandish (Utrecht)
15th century

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Master of Zweder van Culemborg

Title

Book of Hours

Place

Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)

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1410–1430

Medium

Manuscript with 259 folios, six miniatures and other decorations in tempera and gold leaf, with Dutch inscriptions in littera textualis, in blackish brown ink, ruled in graphite, on parchment, in a modern binding of brown morocco over wooden boards, with stamped designs on the endbands, and with machine cut edges, marbled in red and blue

Dimensions

Sheets: 13 × 10 cm (5 1/8 × 3 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson

Reference Number

1923.290

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