Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

France or Flanders

Notes

• Initial D with the bust of a man
   
• The glance of this curious fellow turns toward a prayer or a psalm text, now cut away, in a book of hours. The artist has playfully composed the man's headgear out of the same foliate motifs that form the letter D, blurring the distinction between art and design. The reverse contains a passage of text from the last prayer said during Vespers of the Hours of the Holy Spirit. It is not clear whether this initial came before or followed that prayer.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an initial from a book of hours. The text is from the last prayer of Vespers of the Hours of the Holy Spirit. The word 'pletorium' in red is a fragment of the rubric 'ad completorium' or 'at Compline,' the last canonical hour of the day.
   

Extent

Support

Keywords

• 15th century
• 16th century
• France
• French
• Book of Hours
• Devotion
• Illustration
• Belgium
• Flemish
• Fragment

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