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Record Number:
3515
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Bennett , Adelaide.
Contributor(s):
Title:
A Thirteenth-Century French Book of Hours for Marie [Marie, a laywoman, is named in one of the prayers; the manuscript is significant for its numerous and varied representations of women. Sixteen out of twenty-one historiated initials portray laywomen in religious devotion or in family scenes].
Source:
Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 54, ( 1996): Pages 21 - 50.
Description:
Article Type:
Journal Article
Subject
(See Also)
:
Art History- Painting
Books of Hours
Iconography
Illumination of Manuscripts
Lay Piety
Manuscripts, Ownership of
Marginalia
Prayerbooks
Women in Art
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
France
Century:
13
Primary Evidence:
Manuscript; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, MS L.1990.38. Parchment. Artistic evidence indicates a date in the early 1270s in northern France. See the article's appendix, pages 30-33, for an extensive description of the manuscript including the s
Illustrations:
Twenty-two illustrations. All reproduce pages from the Hours of Marie. Most include historiated initials and marginalia.
Table:
Abstract:
Related Resources:
Author's Affiliation:
Index of Christian Art
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
1996.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
00837156