Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead Opening Prayers (recto); Psalm 5 (verso)
Coëtivy Master (French)
1455–1465
- Medium
- Ink, tempera and gold on vellum
- Dimensions
- Plate: 15.7 x 12.4 cm (6 3/16 x 4 7/8 in.); Sheet: 19.4 x 14.4 cm (7 5/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- manuscript
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
France, Paris
About
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.
