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Samples of Acanthus Decoration

 

Bourges MS 48, f1 detail

London, British Library, Cotton Domitian A XVII, f. 13

WAM MS 209

Paris, Arsenal 623

Boucicaut Hours. f. 26v

 

Douce 144, f, 2v

British Library, Add. Ms 30899 (see Douce 144 Group)

Philadelphia, Widener 6, f. 220v (detail)

 

Arsenal MS. 664, fol 1 (detail)

New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 400, the De Levis Hours, f. 93

San Marino, Huntington Library, MS 1100, f. 28

New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, ms. 400, f. 51

 

New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, ms. 400, f. 51 det.

San Marino, Huntington Library, ms 1100, f. 63v, det.

San Marino, Huntington Library, ms 1100, f. 63v

Chateauroux Breviary, f. 19

Chateauroux Breviary, f. 8

Chateauroux Breviary, f. 33

 

Chateauroux Breviary, f. 40

 

New Haven, Beinecke Library, De Levis Hours, f. 77 (see also f. 93)

 

Paris, Mazarine Ms 406, f. 7 (detail)

Widener 6, f. 147v

Philadelphia, Collins MS 45

Philadelphia, Widener 6, f. 137v det.

 

Très riches heures, f. 147v

Très riches heures, f. 150.

Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 64, f. 158v (?) See also the opening of the Penetential Psalms, f. 87.

London, British Library, Egerton 1070

Cleveland Museum of Art, the Hours of Charles the Noble.

Paris, Mazarine. MS 469, f. 82v-83.

Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 64, f. 25.

 

   

New Haven, Beinecke Library, De Levis Hours, f. 42

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 2810m f. 226: acanthus border attributed to the Egerton Master

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 226, f. 6 (detail)

Paris, Bibliothèqe Sainte Geneviève, MS 2713: fol. 13

Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, MS 63, f. 3.

Widener, MS 6, f. 29.

Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, MS 63, f. 237. Compare to border decoration attributed to the Egerton Master in the Corsini Hours (Meiss, 1968, figs. 167-170.

New Haven, Yale University, Beineke Library, De Levis Hours, f. 77

Boucicaut Hours

Arsenal, MS 623 Compare flowers in lower right border to Boucicaut f.118v

Boucicaut Hours, detail of f. 118v See also fol 29v (Meiss, '68, fig. 14)

Boucicaut Hours, f. 118v: Trinity

Richardson MS 32, f. 623

Richardson MS 32, f. 1

Harley 4431; Laidlaw ("The Date of the Queen's MS (London, Harley MS 4431)" in Proceedings of the Fifth International Christine de Pizan Congress-Salzburg, 17-21 July 2003 (Forthcoming)) dates the London ms. to early 1414.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Collins 45-65-5

London, British Library, Cotton, Vespasian, A XIX, folio 1v-2. Miniature of folio 1v attributed to the Hannibal Master and the borders are close tothe Boucicaut Hours type.