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See also Category:14th-century books. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. ... Pages in category "14th-century manuscripts"
The Maastricht Hours is a book of hours that was produced in the vicinity of Liège early in the 14th century and is now among the Stowe manuscripts of the British Library. [1] It is known for its colourful and imaginative miniatures, often on animal themes. [2] It has been fully digitised and is available on the British Library website. [3]
The book is very lavishly decorated, mostly in grisaille drawings, and is a highly important example of an early royal book of hours, a type of book designed for the personal devotions of a wealthy lay-person, which was then less than a century old. It has been described as "the high point of Parisian court painting", showing "the ...
The Hours of Philip the Bold is a late 14th-century illuminated book of hours produced in Paris for Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1363-1404). It contains illustrated calendars, figured initials and 11 large miniatures with ivy borders, following the Paris liturgy. The manuscript has a devotional use.
Jean de Berry commissioned six books of hours between 1375 and 1416. The first, the Petites Heures, [3] contains 182 miniatures. Work started c. 1375 but was interrupted in 1380 and the book was not completed until 1385–90. [4] It is now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France under the reference ms. lat. 18014. [5]
The Pearl Manuscript (British Library MS Cotton Nero A X/2), also known as the Gawain manuscript, [1] is an illuminated manuscript produced somewhere in northern England in the late 14th century or the beginning of the 15th century. It is one of the best-known Middle English manuscripts, [2] the only one containing alliterative verse solely, [3 ...
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Pages in category "14th-century illuminated manuscripts" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .