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Book of Hours
Jean Colombe1480 (17th century binding)
- Attribution
- French (Bourges) possibly by Jean Colombe (French, flourished 1463-1498)
- Medium
- Manuscript with 195 folios, 48 full-page miniatures and other decorations in tempera, gold leaf, and black, blue and red ink, with littera textualis inscriptions in Latin and French in light black ink, ruled in red ink, on parchment, bound in dark brown leather, with gold-stamped decoration along edges, on the spine, and on the upper and lower covers, paper endpapers and gilded edges
- Physical dimensions
- Image, average: 5 × 3 cm (2 × 1 3/16 in.); Sheet, average: 9.3 × 6.2 cm (3 11/16 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Anonymous gift
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Source rights statement: Public domain
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