The Beautiful Book of Hours of Isabella of Roubaix


	The Beautiful Book of Hours of Isabella of Roubaix
JohnWaterman
12-30-2008 6:48 PM
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12-30-2008 7:43 PM
JohnWaterman
For you Christian folk this page would have made a lovely Christmas card.

Happy New Year all.
12-31-2008 3:43 AM
abailart
That is a lovely thought, John. Happy New Year to you!
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4c154692-46fe-4e0f-8a4a-3d82309ce881/2D8B4052-78A7-428A-A8FA-49703982C1D6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html" href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html" style="font-size: 11px;">bibliodyssey.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/3DABB33E-CB84-4FDE-8BF8-22BF139BB33F" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html">In the late 1480s, Isabeau founded the Hospital of Saint Elizabeth for the Black Sisters of the Order of St Augustine <SMALL>(it was part-hospital, part-convent)</SMALL>. The illuminated manuscript </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html">was bequeathed to the Order when Isabeau died (sometime between 1494 and 1502)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/2DF1933F-0303-4D13-B3B2-30E7D1948952" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix b" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/EBB72D86-69BE-4BBE-AF3F-D3A3B80C23EA" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix c" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/AE314FD1-D64A-4609-9D99-D2D358D35F45" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix d" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/B43486CC-F780-4332-AB11-A2634A37E742" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix e" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><DIV>Isabeau de Roubaix was the last of a noble, northern French family whose fortune had been established by her grandfather, Jean de Roubaix, counsellor to Philip the Good. Isabeau was the châtelaine<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2telain">*</A> of Roubaix and was married to Jacques de Luxembourg in 1464.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/1B5DF1BC-3F3F-432C-8C6E-90DD3FBDF7C5" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix f" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/9E41E35A-DD1C-4399-B1D7-E177B4AEDC15" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix g" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/C49A2E97-9643-48E0-B612-F5A6BC8BBA44" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix h" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/668829E6-98B2-4B4D-8B35-F5FA45E77208" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix i" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/0701FBE4-C33A-45ED-9EAD-3F4F256A9BA6" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix j" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/3CC28575-DA17-44D2-9959-CA1874F41826" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix k" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><SPAN>'Le Livre de l'Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix'</SPAN> (the Book of Hours of Isabella of Roubaix<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roubaix">*</A>) is a vellum manuscript consisting of one hundred and ninety one sheets. The liturigical text was composed or arranged locally, but the manuscript itself was produced - specifically for Isabeau - by two scribes in a Flemish workshop in about 1460</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/960F31B3-9DD5-4762-8A04-7C69535818EF" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix l" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/757224E9-028B-4420-8211-52FEF82787B0" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix m" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/4F5D70DA-D924-495E-B72E-AFD377C9EFA7" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix n" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/EC515117-1858-4C9F-82B2-09A60A05B671" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix o" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/63C6917C-0EAE-4F03-B665-BBDBACF06701" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix p" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/D48CB77E-5EE5-4035-BDA4-FA83ADB5DFD0" alt="Heures d'Isabeau de Roubaix q" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-livre-dheures-disabeau-de-roubaix.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><SMALL></SMALL></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://catalogue.mediathequederoubaix.fr/hipres/isabeau/isabeau3.html">There is an html slideshow displaying details</A> from the manuscript accompanied by brief commentary in French</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2D8B4052-78A7-428A-A8FA-49703982C1D6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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