The Ravenelle Hours is a 15th-century book of hours made in Paris, France and kept in Uppsala University Library, Sweden. It belonged to Johannete Ravenelle, probably a middle-class woman, and was made by the so-called Ravenelle Painter. It has 215 folios and is written in Gothic script.
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The Ravenelle Hours is a 15th-century book of hours made in Paris, France and kept in Uppsala University Library, Sweden. It belonged to Johannete Ravenelle, probably a middle-class woman, and was made by the so-called Ravenelle Painter. It has 215 folios and is written in Gothic script. The book is decorated with 14 miniatures, as well as several larger and smaller initials, border decoration, drolleries and other decorative elements. It is bound in a Parisian binding from the turn of the twentieth century and must at least temporarily have been in France then.
It contains a calendar with names of saints, the Hours of the Virgin, the Penitential Psalms, the Office of the Dead and several individual prayers. The artist who decorated the book is today known by a notname as theRavenelle Painter; it is the only extant work by the artist with a named patron or owner. The Ravenelle hours is currently bound in dark red leather and signed by the French Lorticand.
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