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Folio 12 recto from a Book of Hours, Historiated initial with the Trinity
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Folio 12 recto from a Book of Hours, Historiated initial with the Trinity |
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This is a remarkably large and lavishly illuminated Book of Hours, combining French and English styles. The first leaf contains a list of obits members of the royal family and of the 4th, 5th, and 6th Earls of Ormond and their wives, so it was probably made for Anne Boleyn's grandfather, Thomas Butler (1426-1515), 7th Earl of Ormond, or a member of his family. It was given in the early 16th century to a chapel at 'Suthwyke', probably Southwick in Hampshire. In the initial 'D' the Three Wise Men offer their gifts to the infant Christ. According to tradition, there was one old magus, named Caspar or Jasper; one was a middle-aged Negro, called Balthazar; and one was young, called Melchior. |
| Date | 1500 |
| Medium | Ink, pigments and gold on vellum |
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| Source/Photographer | http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/illmanus/roymanucoll/h/011roy000002b15u00039v00.html |
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