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Book of Hours (Use of Rouen): fol. 57v

c. 1470

Master of the Geneva Latini

(French, active Rouen, 1460–80)
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Culture
France, Rouen
Medium
ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Measurements
Codex: 19.5 x 13.1 cm (7 11/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Feiss family in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Feiss 1952.227.57.b
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Location
113 French Tapestries & Illuminated Manuscripts(not visible)
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Description

In the late 1400s and early 1500s Rouen was an established and important center of book production. The city’s cathedral had a wealthy chapter that spent large sums of money to commission books and to maintain its extensive library. The stationers and booksellers would have likely been concentrated in or near the cathedral precinct. This artist, named after a manuscript now in Geneva, was Rouen’s principal illuminator during the second half of the 1400s.
A vellum manuscript page features a vertical column of black Latin script beside a lush decorative border. Intricate blue and gold vines twist through the border, intertwined with delicate red and blue flowers and green leaves. Several square initials in gold, blue, and red punctuate the text, while decorative rectangular bars in matching hues fill the ends of shorter lines against the cream-colored background, creating a vibrant composition of calligraphy and illumination.

Book of Hours (Use of Rouen): fol. 57v

c. 1470

Master of the Geneva Latini

(French, active Rouen, 1460–80)
France, Rouen

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