A Fifteenth-Century French Illuminated Calendar Leaf
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"Books of hours -- prayer books often decorated with intricate and jewel-like paintings -- were the most popular books of the Middle Ages. Today, hundreds of complete books of hours still survive in museums, libraries, and private collections, and perhaps even more are represented by fragments and single leaves scattered throughout the world. Although they provide a fascinating glimpse between the covers of a lost book, single leaves and fragments pose a special problem for researchers: they must be placed within the context of the original, intact manuscript, as well as within artistic, social, and religious traditions. The Museum of Art and Archaeology holds several such leaves, including one from a fifteenth-century book of hours attributed to the circle of the Coerivy Master. In the case of the Missouri leaf, we are fortunate: enough sister leaves are documented to reconstruct an idea of the manuscript's textual and visual content. These clues suggest that the calendar leafwas part of a unified program of illumination repeated throughout the original manuscript, which contained numerous illustrations of saints' lives and was likely produced for a female patron."--Introduction.
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