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Image And Meaning In The Floral Borders Of The Hours Of Catherine Of Cleves, Elizabeth R. Schaeffer
Image And Meaning In The Floral Borders Of The Hours Of Catherine Of Cleves, Elizabeth R. Schaeffer
Masters Theses
The Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves, produced in
the Netherlands c. 1440-45, is one of the most beautiful and
complex illuminated manuscripts of the late Middle Ages.
The Master's originality in his symbolic use of floral
images in the borders of the manuscript is remarkable, yet
little study has been made of this subject. The meaning of
these floral images is, however, important to a complete
understanding of the illumination of the manuscript.
Using a set of criteria based on the tenets of the
Devotie Moderna, a philosophy strong in the Netherlands at
the time, I show that …