Folios 146v-147r, Christ and the Apostles

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Detail: folio 175, recto, Suffrage of Saint Avia

Book of Hours (for Female Use)

mid-15th century

Place of Manufactureprobably Amiens, France

Medium/TechniqueTempera, ink, pencil (modern), and gold on parchment; bindings of calf over boards with gilding and metal and parchment pastedowns

DimensionsOverall (page dimensions): 21 x 15 cm (8 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Sumner Pingree

Accession number44.862

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ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts

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InscriptionsOn folio 195 are two identical early inscriptons recording a death in 1480: "Gilles de Drue trespassa de che monde. Et fut le jour da la magdalaine. Dieux ayt son ame sil luy plaist. Priies dieu pour son ame Et fut le xxiie jour de juillet mil iiiic et iiiixx" ("Gilles de Drue passed from this world. And it happened on the Day of the Magdalene. May God have his soul if it pleases him. Pray to God for his soul. And it happened on the 22nd day of July, 1480"). The placename "Drue" may be the modern town of Le Dreue, located about 50 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of Amiens. Said in a laid-down inscription inside upper cover to have belonged to the English nunnery of St. Ethelreda on the island of Ely, but this cannot be confirmed.

ProvenanceBy 1480, produced in northern France, possibly in Amiens, for a female patron [see note 1]. Possibly at nunnery of St. Ethelreda, island of Ely, England [see note 2]. 1944, gift of Mrs. Sumner Pingree to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 1944)

NOTES:
[1] On folio 195 are two identical early inscriptons recording a death in 1480: "Gilles de Drue trespassa de che monde. Et fut le jour da la magdalaine. Dieux ayt son ame sil luy plaist. Priies dieu pour son ame Et fut le xxiie jour de juillet mil iiiic et iiiixx" ("Gilles de Drue passed from this world. And it happened on the Day of the Magdalene. May God have his soul if it pleases him. Pray to God for his soul. And it happened on the 22nd day of July, 1480"). The placename "Drue" may be the modern town of Le Dreue, located about 50 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of Amiens. [2] Noted in a laid-down inscription inside upper cover to have belonged to the English nunnery of St. Ethelreda on the island of Ely, but this cannot be confirmed.