Saint Louis University, VFL MS 005

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DS ID:

DS10010

Shelfmark:

VFL MS 005

Title:

Book of hours, single leaf

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

ca. 1470

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 single leaf : parchment, illustrations ; 164 x 112 mm

Former Owner(s):

Fischmann, Milton, d. 1974

Milton Fischmann WIKIDATA

Fischmann, Gail

Gail Fischmann WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Layout: Written in 15 long lines, ruled in pinkish-red ink.
Script: Gothic textura.
Decoration: One 4-line illuminated initial O in blue with white tracery, infilled with red and blue leaves set into spaces between criss-crossing diagonal lines, on a squared burnished gold ground outlined in black; narrow burnished gold and blue bar along lefthand side of text; 3-sided vegetal border framed in red ink and filled with penwork scrolls sprouting burnished gold ivy and...
Origin: Written and illuminated in France, in about 1470.
Gift of Milton and Gail Fischmann, 1962.
Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Special Collections, VFL MS 005.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

illuminated manuscripts

initials (layout features)

Gothic scripts

detached leaves

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Books of hours

Catholic Church

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.slu.edu/record=b1977095

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/images_VFLMS005_44/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Saint Louis University