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French illuminated manuscripts: late fourteenth to early sixteenth century
Paris c. 1500-1530
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Disputacion de la Felicite Humaine, 215 x 150 mm, c. 1510, Personification of Virtue, illuminated by JEAN PICHORE Cotton Caligula A V, f. 37
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Book of Hours for the use of Rome, 155 x 105 mm, c. 1500, Shepherds adoring the Christ Child, illuminated by the MASTER OF MARTAINVILLE 183 Harley 2936, f. 35v-36
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Le Sacre de Claude de France (Description of the coronation of Claude de France in Saint-Denis in 1517), 220 x 150 mm, 1517?, Tapestry with Claude de France, illuminated by JEAN COENE IV Stowe 582, f. 39
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Pierre Sala, Petit Livre d'Amour, 130 x 95 mm, c. 1500, Loving couple, mainly illuminated by the MASTER OF THE CHRONIQUE SCANDALEUSE (see also Jean Perréal) Stowe 955, f. 9
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Book of Hours for the use of Rome, 155 x 95 mm, c. 1515/20, Death riding a bull, illuminated partly by the MASTER OF CLAUDE DE FRANCE Additional 35315, f. 62v
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Book of Hours for the use of Rome, 140 x 90 mm, c. 1525/30, Annunciation, illuminated by the MASTER OF THE GETTY EPISTLES (Jean Bellemare?) Additional 35318, f. 25
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Hours of Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle, 215 x 150 mm, dated 1531 and 1532, Christ raising Lazarus from the Dead, illuminated by the MASTER OF FRANÇOIS DE ROHAN Additional 21235, f. 90v
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François du Moulin and Albert Pigghe, Les Commentaires de la Guerre Gallique, 250 x 125 mm, dated 1519, Building a bridge, illuminated by GODEFROY LE BATAVE Harley 6205, f. 23
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