Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery: France, 875-1420In the second of four volumes that will catalog these holdings at the Walters, the curator of the collection describes in detail 113 manuscripts produced in France from the 1420s to 1540. |
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acanthus angel Annunciation arch baldachin Blank blue and mauve bole Book of Hours border Boucicaut Master bounding lines brown ink burnished gold calendar canonical hours Christ Christ-Child color columns Compline Cross crown dark brown DECORATION Deus dominical letters extant facing left figures filled Fleshtones fleurs-de-lis foliate folios fore-edge foreground frontal gilt gilt-edged book gold burnished gold rays Gospel Sequences gray green grisaille halo hands folded headed on f illuminated illus inscribed John Evangelist kneeling landscape Last Flowering left back left hand major feasts marked by miniatures Mary Magdalene Matins mauve motifs nude orange oratio pale mauve ink parchment Paris patterned in white Penitential Psalms prayer prie-dieu punctus quire recto right back right hand rinceau rose Rouen saint sancta scroll Sext shaded starry Suffrage Terce tessellated text divisions marked textile tile floor Walters Width WORKMANSHIP written space