Title
Book of Hours, Use of Tournai (Latin manuscript)
Coverage
Lille
Date
1465–1500
Description
The binding of brown velvet over wooden boards is a rare survivor from the last third of the 15th century. Bindings in such fabrics as linen, silk, velvet, or tapestry were once common, especially for books of private devotion, like the present example, but did not wear well and were almost universally replaced with leather. Even in its worn state this is an uncommon witness from medieval France. The goatskin spine is a 19th-century replacement.
Source
Gift of Daniel B. Fearing, 1905.
Format
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