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Book of Hours with Spectacles
SPECTACLES
book; book-inset spectacles
Gruel, Léon
Europe: France
Late 19th c.
leather; paper; gilt
1999.1418
SPECTACLES
book; book-inset spectacles
Gruel, Léon
Europe: France
Late 19th c.
leather; paper; gilt
Replica of a French 15th c. Book of Hours with tooled leather binding. Pages are blank with gilded edges apart from frontispiece which features a stuck-in illuminated picture. Front cover features a hollow containing a pair of spectacles with thin gilt frame (one piece joined with wire). Round eyes, glazed.
1999.1418
Acquired 1933