Search Results: Titles starting with U from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Northern France, probably Paris, mid-15th century. 155 x 110 mm. (6 x 4 1/4"). Single column, 16 lines in a gothic book hand. Each recto with three line "KL" in blues, white, and gold and filled with tiny flowers on a burnished gold ground, saints' names in red, blue, and gold, rectos with a panel border of colorful acanthus and flowers on the outer margin. ◆The Recto of the January leaf with light marginal smudges (as expected), a few names on one page slightly blurry, faint yellowing at inner margin of several openings, otherwise in fine condition, with paint and gilt entirely intact. Beautifully written out in an extremely practiced and careful hand (and within remarkably commodious margins on three sides), this is a complete Book of Hours calendar with a particularly satisfying sense of order and proportion. It is desirable as a triple-graded example, where the more ordinary saints' days (typically the dates of martyrdom) alternate in blue and red, but with the major saints' days written in… Read More