Saint Louis University, VFL MS 018

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10028

Shelfmark:

VFL MS 018

Title:

Breviary, single leaf

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

ca. 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 single leaf : parchment ; 395 x 285 mm

Former Owner(s):

Fischmann, Milton, d. 1974

Milton Fischmann WIKIDATA

Fischmann, Gail

Gail Fischmann WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Rubric: On fol. 1a, recto: "In iii noct[urno] sole[m]nitatis epypha[n]ie d[icitur] iste p[salmu]s. Venite." (Third nocturne at Matins for the Feast of Epiphany.)
Layout: Written in 16 long lines; ruled in lead with single inner and outer vertical bounding lines; pricking for ruling at outer margin.
Script: Gothic textualis.
Decoration: One illuminated initial in blue and purple, on a squared burnished gold ground outlined in black; in-line initials alternating in red and blue.
Origin: Written and illuminated in Spain ca. 1460.
Gift of Milton and Gail Fischmann, 1962.
Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Special Collections, VFL MS 018.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

illuminated manuscripts

detached leaves

Gothic scripts

decorated initials

Breviaries

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Catholic Church

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.slu.edu/record=b1977428x

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/images_VFLMS018_44/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Saint Louis University