Book of hours: Canon Grandel's Prayer Book

Title

Book of hours: Canon Grandel's Prayer Book

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Description

Book of hours, decorated initials, prayer book, Tournai use

Publication Date

1500

City

Lille, France

Disciplines

Medieval Studies

Comments

Contains hundreds of decorated initials, with a pre-French Revolution provenance at the Capuchin friary in Lille, a named owner, Canon Grandel, in a local eighteenth-century binding probably dateable to 1734.

Almost certainly produced in Lille, French Flanders (under Spanish rule from 1477, or (less likely) in south Flanders, possible Bruges ... Written for male use, according to th emasculine forms of the Obsecro te and O intemerata"-- frp,

bookdealer's description in catalogue.

Book of hours: Canon Grandel's Prayer Book

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