Leaf from a Benedictine "Book of Hours"

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Dublin Core

Title

Leaf from a Benedictine "Book of Hours"

Creator

Unknown

Date

1430

Identifier

CAP-0106

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Building

Adams Library

Room

Special Collections

Occupant

Marlene Lopes

Donor Name

Martha Bacon - Ronald Ballinger

Donation Date

1981

Identifying Remarks

Minature of St. Mark (?) writing Gospel. Angel holding scroll, dictating. Rare use of silve on scroll. Interest in Linear Perspective. Italian velvet wild flowers quite evident. Peacock walking on grassy lawn an indication of the Realism Movement just starting that time in France. Portrait of St. Mathew also realistic. Border slightly blurred. Angel's face of white lead, pealed slightly, but rest of miniature in unusually fine condition and brilliant. Strawberries are the emblem of the Benedictine order on reverse side of sheet. Leaf obtained in England in 1922.

Condition

Image & text also on back of image (see photographs in folder CAP-0106)

Date Photographed

2015-01-07

Medium

Illuminated manuscript

Collection

Citation

Unknown, “Leaf from a Benedictine "Book of Hours",” Campus Art Inventory, accessed July 3, 2025, https://ricspecialcollections.org/artdatabase/items/show/637.

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