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- Housed in a mat frame (160 x 110 mm)., 6-line historiated and illuminated initial painting of St. Agnes of Rome with a simple white face and rosy cheeks, holding a lamb possibly in the Nonnenarbeiten style, which is associated with predominately female monastic deocation of their devotional books. Rubrication in red. On verso, a 2-line intial O decorated in red with faded brown pen florishes., Single leaf from a devotional Prayer Book featuring St. Agnes holding a lamb enclosed in an illuminated initial O. Text opens with a prayer to St. Agnes for the Feast of St. Agnes, celebrated on January 21., 1 column of 14-15 lines ruled in dry point written in Gothic Textualis script., and "The illumination on recto is in the style named Nonnenarbeiten (see J. Hamburger, Nuns as Artists, the Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent, 1997), and associated with predominantly female monastic decoration of their own devotional books." --from dealer description on inside cover of the frame.
- Date Created:
- [1440 TO 1460]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Excised from a larger manuscript. Housed in a mat frame (255 x 205 mm) with dealer’s prospectus on back of the mat frame., 1-line illuminated initial on a ground of blue with a rinceaux design in blue and red extending into the margin. Rubricated in red. 1-line intials alternating red and blue with contrasting pen flourishes in red or blue. On recto, text of the first line rubric has faded completely. Large initial "D" on recto opens a prayer. Prickings in the inner margin., Leaf from a Book of Hours with text opening to devotional prayers petitioning for Saint Anthony’s intercession., 1 column of 15 lines ruled in red ink written in Northern Textualis Gothic script. Change of hands on verso., and Purchased from Boyd Mackus of the Mackus Company, Springfield, Illinois, by Western Michigan University Special Collections, (M3404E).
- Date Created:
- [1500 TO 1599]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
