Book of Hours for the Use of Limoges
Master of Catherine Gentille
1475–1500
- Medium
- Manuscript with 182 folios, 11 miniatures, 15 historiated initials and other decorations in tempera, gold leaf and colored inks, and littera textualis inscriptions in Latin and French, in light black ink, ruled in red, on parchment, bound in leather stamped with various designs
- Dimensions
- Images, average: 15 × 8 cm (5 15/16 × 3 3/16 in.); Sheets, average: 21.5 × 14 cm (8 1/2 × 5 9/16 in.); Book: D.: 4.1 cm (1 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
paintpen and ink drawingsmanuscriptgold leafprints and drawinginorganic materialmedievalbookcoating (material)leaf (metal)temperawater-base paintmetal