[From my post last year]
The source of these images, as far as I can find, is "an illuminated manuscript Book of Hours on vellum. - Paris, ca. 1485."
Sanderus
...specialise[s] in antiquarian books, medieval manuscripts, antique maps and prints from the 15th to the 18th centuries.The company is named after the Flemish scholar Antoon Sanders (who "Latinized his name to Antonius Sanderus").
It looks like Sanders sells original books, which I deduced from the price of the book, which is about US$3,000.
I also did a preliminary transaction to authenticate the site, and they have sent me a username and password, with the name of print I sent in.
So, I can say with almost 100% certainty that this print is an original 16th century print. But, I would have thought that it would have been purchased by a gallery or a museum.
Books of Hours were:
...richly illuminated...form[ing] an important record of life in the 15th and 16th centuries as well as the iconography of medieval Christianity. Some of them were also decorated with jewelled covers, portraits, and heraldic emblems. Some were bound as girdle books for easy carrying, though few of these or other medieval bindings have survived. Luxury books, like the Talbot Hours of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, may include a portrait of the owner, and in this case his wife, kneeling in adoration of the Virgin and Child as a form of donor portrait. In expensive books, miniature cycles showed the Life of the Virgin or the Passion of Christ in eight scenes decorating the eight Hours of the Virgin, and the Labours of the Months and signs of the zodiac decorating the calendar. Secular scenes of calendar cycles include many of the best known images from books of hours, and played an important role in the early history of landscape painting.Many astrological explanations focus on the "goat" of Capricorn, but there is also the tail:
[W]hile Capricorns are able to climb life’s mountain peaks and succeed, they’re also able to plumb the emotional oceans of life and one of the least known qualities about a Capricorn, is how spiritually in tune they are. Many Capricorns have an inexplicable sixth sense that comes from this aspect of their nature. Capricorn is a complex and contradictory Sign and this comes from it being part goat, part fish.
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Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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