The Hours of Isabella Stuart

Physical Description

Description and Contents

Parchment, i early modern paper flyleaf + i contemporary parchment flyleaf + 232 fols. + i contemporary parchment flyleaf, 250 x 183 mm (120 x 76 mm), 15 long lines, ruled in red ink, catchwords. The text was written in iron-gall ink and the rubrics in ultramarine blue.

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The marginal scene, illustrating the Pilgrimage of the Human Life cycle, was painted by an assistant who used lead-tin yellow to obtain an acidic yellow hue with a slight green tinge.

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