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DESCRIPTION OF MS.
"LES HEURES D'ANNE DE FRANCE,"
PRESERVED IN THE BIBLIOTHEQUE DU ROI, PARIS.
The " Hours " of Anne of France form a very rich and profusely illuminated volume, executed about the close of the fifteenth
century, when the taste of the revival began to supersede the Gothic feeling in decoration, producing a great variety of mixed styles,
of which this book is an example. Some of the borders are partly filled with the arabesques, formed of heart's-ease, daisy, and
columbine flowers, intermingled with purple and red scrollings of conventional foliage, derived from the acanthus, which formed
the marked style of the middle of the fifteenth century, and of which the page from the " Chronicles of England," in this work,
may be cited as a good example, though differing somewhat from the most common examples of the style. Other portions of the
same borders are occupied with designs similar to those in the present example, while some of the borders, of an architectural
character, exhibit a portion of the design, with pointed arches and all the genuine Gothic features ; and other parts with circular
arches, and the ornaments in the mixed and unsettled style of the early " revival."
The calendar, especially, exhibits a very singular blending of the two styles, which are so very uncongenial in character; but
yet, the general effect produced is rich and agreeable.
Our specimen from this volume contains a portion of an office of the Catholic Church, and at the top, on the gold ground, a sort
of summary, or explanation of the office, in French ; all the offices, and some of the principal pictures, have explanations of
this sort at the top or bottom of the page, and generally on a gold ground, or in writing of another colour, to distinguish them from
the rest of the text.
"LES HEURES D'ANNE DE FRANCE,"
PRESERVED IN THE BIBLIOTHEQUE DU ROI, PARIS.
The " Hours " of Anne of France form a very rich and profusely illuminated volume, executed about the close of the fifteenth
century, when the taste of the revival began to supersede the Gothic feeling in decoration, producing a great variety of mixed styles,
of which this book is an example. Some of the borders are partly filled with the arabesques, formed of heart's-ease, daisy, and
columbine flowers, intermingled with purple and red scrollings of conventional foliage, derived from the acanthus, which formed
the marked style of the middle of the fifteenth century, and of which the page from the " Chronicles of England," in this work,
may be cited as a good example, though differing somewhat from the most common examples of the style. Other portions of the
same borders are occupied with designs similar to those in the present example, while some of the borders, of an architectural
character, exhibit a portion of the design, with pointed arches and all the genuine Gothic features ; and other parts with circular
arches, and the ornaments in the mixed and unsettled style of the early " revival."
The calendar, especially, exhibits a very singular blending of the two styles, which are so very uncongenial in character; but
yet, the general effect produced is rich and agreeable.
Our specimen from this volume contains a portion of an office of the Catholic Church, and at the top, on the gold ground, a sort
of summary, or explanation of the office, in French ; all the offices, and some of the principal pictures, have explanations of
this sort at the top or bottom of the page, and generally on a gold ground, or in writing of another colour, to distinguish them from
the rest of the text.