Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead Opening Prayers (recto)
c. 1460
Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.102.a
The leaf shows the life of St Alexis, a monk of the 300s. His veneration became popular in France since the 1100s when the French poem la Vie de saint Alexis was written. This text is regarded as one of the earliest examples in romance language written in French and not in Latin.
Manuscript
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522884
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manuscript
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citation
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CC0
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| language |
language
en
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wikidata
[
"Q117247694"
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import
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Source image fields (4)
Terms
Culture
France, Paris
Technique
Ink, tempera and gold on vellum
Genre
Manuscript
Department
Medieval Art
Relations
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