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Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome), France, Paris, Gilles and Germaine Hardouyn, 1518

It is in the margins that artists, and later owners, truly enter into dialogue with the Book of Hours. Through finely detailed naturalistic borders, playful penwork inhabited by fantastic creatures, and personal traces such as annotations, glosses, coats of arms, and mottoes, the margins become a realm of freedom. Freed from the solemnity of sacred representation, they allow the inner self to flow into the book and, through it, connect with the outer world. The Book of Hours thus becomes a meeting ground of the sacred image, the living world, and the personal creativity and identity of those who made and cherished it, a space where boundaries blur. Do these borders, sparkling with painted jewels, mirror reality or imagination? And who are the intriguing figures that appear in the painted portraits of this printed Book of Hours? Paris was the epicenter of the production of printed books of Hours from 1485 to nearly 1550. Many of these imprints, like this rare example, consciously imitated illuminated manuscripts. In this particularly appealing volume over three dozen metalcuts are so vibrantly and expertly painted that they are practically indistinguishable from illuminated miniatures. Further illuminated borders added on blank parchment imitate grisaille cameos, as found in many Italian manuscripts, and suggest a woman commissioner who appears in three of the four borders. Later annotations prove this book to have been a prized possession in a French noble house for generations. Exhibition Catalogue: https://website-lesenluminures.artlog... Book of hours: https://www.lesenluminures.com/artwor...