Book of Hours, Use of Rome
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- Title
- Book of Hours, Use of Rome
- Author
- English
- Publication year listed
- 1850
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- Public domain eBook
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Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Author: Free Library of Philadelphia
Year: 1850
Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 109. Abbey of Saint-Amand, France England, Manuscript is from France (Abbey of Saint-Amand near Tournai), but the miniatures added by English miniaturist C.W. Wing; the date of the production of the manuscript itself is recorded in colophon as 1537; inscriptions on fols. 33v and 59r (perhaps added by Wing) record the date 1536; 1537 (text) and 1850-1859 (miniatures); between 1850 and 1859. This book of hours was originally written at the Abbey of Saint-Amand near Tournai for François Duquesne in 1537, but was heavily modified in the mid-nineteenth-century by the noted restorer/forger of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, William (Caleb) Wing. The latter added the eleven full-page miniatures in French Renaissance Style and, it would seem, the secondary decoration on the remaining pages.