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

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Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

France

Notes

• Ecce Homo
   
• The decoration on this leaf was left unfinished with only the gold applied to the underdrawing of the miniature and the decorated initial and border. Yet, its incomplete state allows us to see the steps of illumination midway through the process. After a leaf was ruled to determine the number of lines of text and decoration, the scribe wrote in the text leaving the areas of decoration blank. The leaf was then handed over to an illuminator who would first draw in the outlines of the decoration with a stylus or a lead stick, similar to a pencil. Then, the gold leaf was added before the decoration was painted in with various colors. For an unknown reason, our illuminator abandoned his work after adding the gold leaf, leaving the underdrawing exposed. This miniature marks the beginning of Terce of the Hours of the Cross.
   
• This cutting has been dated to ca. 1440.
   

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Support

Script

Keywords

• 15th century
• Book of Hours
• Devotion
• France
• French
• Illustration
• Illumination
• Fragment

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