Book of Hours for the Use of Limoges

Medium

Manuscript with 182 folios, 11 miniatures, 15 historiated initials and other decorations in tempera, gold leaf and colored inks, and littera textualis inscriptions in Latin and French, in light black ink, ruled in red, on parchment, bound in leather stamped with various designs

Dimensions

Images, average: 15 × 8 cm (5 15/16 × 3 3/16 in.); Sheets, average: 21.5 × 14 cm (8 1/2 × 5 9/16 in.); Book: D.: 4.1 cm (1 5/8 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

71521