Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Savoy Hours

Accession Number: 
102348
Order Title: 
History of Costume and Fashion (102059-103548)
Type of View: 
detail
View Title: 
view of kneeling woman is in a closed circular cape with a slit for the arms. The unbuttoned hood forms a short cape around the shoulders. The figure in gray, a nun, is in a circular cape open at the center front. Both are in a wimple and veil
Image Rights: 
copyrighted
Source Institution: 
NCSU Libraries
Collection: 
Design Library Image Collection
Culture: 
French
Subject: 
books of hours
Subject: 
Jesus Christ
Subject: 
capes (outerwear)
Subject: 
women (female humans)
Subject: 
Christianity
Subject: 
clothing
Subject: 
veils (headcloths)
Work Types: 
Art; manuscripts; illuminated manuscripts
Preferred Title: 
Savoy Hours
Agent Display: 
Unknown (French)
Date: 
14th Century (creation)
Materials: 
vellum
Technique: 
illumination (image-making processes)
Locations: 
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Location Type: 
(repository)
Locations: 
France
Location Type: 
(creation)
Style/Period: 
Medieval
Style/Period: 
Gothic (Medieval)
Classification: 
Painting and Drawing