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Book of Hours (Use of Rouen): fol. 56v

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 1952.227.56.b
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Location
113 French Tapestries & Illuminated Manuscripts(not visible)
Print

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 vertical manuscript page on vellum features an ornate decorative border on our left and black gothic script to the right. The border displays swirling blue and gold foliage around a central green plant with pink, brush-like flowers. To our right, angular script is punctuated by red text and small gold, blue, and red initials. A large blue and gold letter B is positioned at the bottom left of the text block.

Book of Hours (Use of Rouen): fol. 56v

c. 1470

Master of the Geneva Latini

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

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