Book of Hours Leaf - Litany of the Saints - c 1510-20

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Original leaf from a manuscript Book of Hours. 22 lines of text, ruled in red, written in Latin in gothic book-hand script on animal vellum.(160x103mm) 

Rubrics in red & line ending in red with liquid gold infill. Forty-two one-line illuminated initials  and forty-two line extenders in gold alternating in blue and red ground with gold penwork. 

Elaborate panel borders in a geometric design with acanthus & floral motif – much on liquid gold ground.     

 Northern France, c. 1510-20.

From the workshop of Jean Coene (also known as the Master of the Paris Entries), a prolific artist who was active in Paris for the French court under Louis XII and Francis I, and also collaborated with the workshop of the Master Jean Pichoire. Coene’s quick painting technique and the careful finish of his miniatures led him to be one of the most successful artists for a high-ranking clientele in early sixteenth-century Paris.

This leaf continues the Litany of the Saints (first prescribed by Pope Gregory in 590 for a public thanksgiving following a plague that ravaged Rome). The leaf lists the names of saints with each invocation followed by the abbreviation for “ora pro nobis” (Pray for us). Among the saints listed are: Vincent, Sebastian, Sylvester, Martin, Augustine, and Nicholas. 

Presented in an archival 14x11'' mat

 

  • Inventory# IM-11344
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