Template:Did you know nominations/Hours of Louis XII

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:25, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Hours of Louis XII[edit]

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Louis XII of France and saints

... that the process of connecting the scattered fragments surviving from the Hours of Louis XII (begun c. 1498) only started in 1973? Source: V&A Museum: "By the end of the 17th century, the book's original body of around 36 large miniatures was removed and its text broken up. Miniatures and text fragments found their way into various collections, including those of Samuel Pepys, George II and William Beckford. By the late 19th century several were in the British Museum. In 1973 Janet Backhouse, the distinguished curator of illuminated manuscripts at the British Library, recognised that these and other miniatures and fragments belonged together. Sixteen imposing miniatures, nearly half the original suite of images, have been discovered to date."

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Joanne Berger-Sweeney
Comment: moved from draft-space & 5x expanded, NOTE: Manuscript names are NOT italicized.

Created/expanded by Johnbod (talk). Self-nominated at 15:21, 8 June 2019 (UTC).

A beautiful article on a beautiful topic. New enough, long enough, well written and referenced; except that the Backhouse reference is incorrect: the book is a collection of essays, only one of which is by Janet Backhouse. There are many references to Mark Evans' essay, and one to Thomas Kren's. This has to be corrected. I did a spotcheck for close paraphrasing, and found no issues, Earwig's tool also comes out clean. Hook is cited, interesting, and within length limits. QPQ has been done. Constantine ✍ 07:40, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! Done this. You are right of course, I was somewhat misled by google books, and perhaps knowing that Backhouse died while her contribution was in the post to Getty. Johnbod (talk) 11:07, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

@Johnbod: Hmmm, I would prefer to list the individual articles and contributors, but this works as well. Passing now.

Good to go. Constantine ✍ 08:04, 18 June 2019 (UTC)