Book of Hours

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Master of Hugo Janz Van Worden

Title

Book of Hours

Place

Flanders (Artist's nationality:)

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1480–1485

Medium

Manuscript with 150 folios, one full-page miniature and other decorations in tempera and gold leaf, with Dutch and Latin inscriptions in littera textualis, in black ink, ruled in red ink, on parchment, bound in brown morocco over boards, with gold floral design and lettering on spine, and with marbled end papers and gilded edges

Dimensions

Images: 10 × 8 cm (3 15/16 × 3 3/16 in.); Sheets: 18.5 × 13 cm (7 5/16 × 5 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Black Fund Income

Reference Number

1923.419

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