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Catholic Church · [Paris : Philippe Pigouchet for Symon Vostre] · 12 pictures

This is a Book of Hours printed in Paris in 1498 by Philippe Pigouchet for the bookseller Symon Vostre, intended for lay devotional use under the Use of Rome. The pages show framed borders with small devotional scenes beside a larger miniature of the Virgin and Child, with text blocks in Latin and French. A designer might take from them the dense marginal frames, gilded arches and vertical strips of small narrative panels typical of early printed devotional books.

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