Manuscript leaf, on parchment, containing prayers from before Matins. From the "Hungerford Hours."
Description:
In Anglo-Norman French., Layout: single-column; 17 lines., Script: Gothic., Decoration: 5 illuminated initials with decorative extensions and decorative line fillers, with gilt., and Byname: Hungerford Hours.
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:
Scrapbook has been attributed to Albert Henry Warren (1830-1911), painter and illustrator. and One leaf with upper corner cut away.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Books of hours, and Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish
Woodblock depicting scene of the miracle of Christ stilling the wind and waves
Description:
Accompanied by: Christmas card from "the Wilsons," dated 1930, containing a print made from the woodblock and attributing the block to a craftsman in the Netherlands, circa 1480., Date uncertain., Bookplate: Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow., and Binding: modern cloth case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Miracles, Art, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Christian art and symbolism
