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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead with Psalm 5 (verso)

c. 1460
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Culture
France, Paris
Medium
Ink, tempera and gold on vellum
Measurements
Overall: 18.5 x 14.5 cm (7 5/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
James Parmelee Fund 2022.102.b
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St. Alexis is depicted here as a courtly person of the 1400s to bring him close to the reader.

Description

The leaf shows the life of St Alexis, a monk of the 300s. His veneration became popular in France since the 1100s when the French poem la Vie de saint Alexis was written. This text is regarded as one of the earliest examples in romance language written in French and not in Latin.
A vertical manuscript page features black Gothic script and a painting depicting a scene on our left of a man in a blue tunic and a woman in an orange dress and white headdress. Both have light skin tones and stand in a green landscape. A wide border of blue vines and flowers surrounds the text, with a gray bird at the bottom. Gold and blue initials punctuate the central block.

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead with Psalm 5 (verso)

c. 1460

Coëtivy Master

(French)
France, Paris

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