Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Cod. 102
Leuchtendes Mittelalter, Neue Folge III, Vom Heiligen Ludwig zum Sonnenkönig: 34 Werke der Französischen Buchmalerei aus Gotik, Renaissance und Barock, beschrieben von Eberhard König mit Beiträgen von Gabriele Bartz und Heribert Tenschert, Ramsen Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert 2000, S. 442.
Handschriftentitel: Book of Hours for the use of Rome.
Entstehungsort: Bourges
Entstehungszeit: c. 1500/10
Katalognummer:
26
Beschreibstoff: Vellum
Umfang:
248 leaves of vellum
Format: Octavo (180 x 112 mm)
Seiteneinrichtung:
written space
132 x 62 mm
Schrift und Hände: Bastarda
Buchschmuck: 64 pictures, in 52 picture spaces, containing 13 large miniatures above three lines of text with 3-line glyptic initials in borders à compartiments, 27 6-line pictures within the text with borders that are populated with plants executed with botanical correctness; twelve 4-line pictures in full width of the text with two miniatures each and border strips at the margins. The 2-line initials in luxurious acanthus on coloured or golden ground with flowers. The 1-line omamental letters in gold on varying red brown and blue grounds. Capital letters uncoloured.
Einband:
17th century brown morocco binding, richly decorated with fleur-de-lys as semé and à dentelles.
Hauptsprache: Latin and French
Inhaltsangabe:
Book of Hours for the use of Rome.
Manuscript, in Latin and French, in black, red and blue on vellum, in bastarda.
Manuscript, in Latin and French, in black, red and blue on vellum, in bastarda.
Entstehung der Handschrift:
- Bourges, c. 1500/10: Master of the Lallemant Boethius
- A Book of Hours from a decisive phase of the development toward Renaissance art by the Master of the Lallemant Boethius, bearing resemblance to works of Jean Bourdichon, but also to Flemish illumination of this period. Preserved complete and in a marvellous binding.