Seven illuminated borders with strewn flowers, leaves, fruits, birds, insects, and hybrids and nineteen miniatures of saints and other figures, on parchment, cut out from a book of hours and pasted onto folded paper sheets in the mid-nineteenth century, creating a scrapbook in the English Gothic Revival tradition.
Description:
One leaf with upper corner cut away. and Scrapbook has been attributed to Albert Henry Warren (1830-1911), painter and illustrator.
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Beschreibung aller Länder, Herrschaften, fürnemsten Stetten, Geschichten
Description:
Imperfect: waterstained, with no loss of text. From the library of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria. Manuscript shelf mark: 3222. Bound in contemporary blindstamped half-pigskin with wooden boards; clasps wanting., Imprint from colophon., Pages 951-962, 1191-1193, erroneously numbered 947-956 and 1153-1154., Printer's mark on verso of last leaf., and Title within woodcut border.
Publisher:
Getruckt zu Basel durch Henrichum Petri,
Subject (Name):
Maximilian,--Duke of Bavaria,--1809-1888--Ownership