note (text)
Flight into Egypt
This miniature marks the beginning of Vespers of the Hours of the Virgin. The illuminator Guillaume Hugueniot, active in Langres from 1460-1475, was only recently identified by art historians. Other leaves in the collection, Lewis E M 9:7, 8, and 10, are from the same manuscript.
This image shows the reverse of a leaf with a miniature from a book of hours.
This leaf has been dated to ca. 1465.
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
146
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
105
note (deco)
1 half-page, arched miniature with full foliate border1 4-line illuminated initial, 1 2-line illuminated initial, 4 1-line illuminated initials, and an illuminated line ending
binding
Not bound. Mounted on mat frame.
note (history)
"V.12 #38" written in pencil on reverse. From same manuscript as Lewis E M 9:7, 8, 10. Initials G (or Q?)) and Y, tied by a love knot, appear in border decoration.
provenance
John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia
