Saint Louis University, VFL MS 058

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10048

Shelfmark:

VFL MS 058

Title:

Book of hours, single leaf

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

14--

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

French

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 single leaf : parchment ; 164 x 117 mm

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Prayer to the Virgin of Sorrows, in French.
Layout: Written in 15 long lines; ruled in brown ink.
Script: Bastarda.
Decoration: One two-line initial in blue, one-line initials in alternating blue or red, some text initials highlighted in red.
Origin: Written and illuminated in France in the 15th century.
Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Special Collections, VFL MS 058.
Purchased from Boyd Mackus with funds from the Saint Louis Library Associates, May 2011.

Keyword:

Gothic scripts

detached leaves

manuscripts (documents)

illuminated manuscripts

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Books of hours

Catholic Church

Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Devotion to

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.slu.edu/record=b3411327

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/images_VFLMS058_44/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Saint Louis University