Harvard University, MS Lat 453
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- DS ID:
- DS10407
- Shelfmark:
- MS Lat 453
- Title:
- Prayerbook
- Author:
- Catholic Church
- Date:
- circa 1500-1550.
- Language:
- In Latin with some German
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 157 leaves, bound (.08 linear feet) : vellum ; 19 cm
- Note:
- Written in brown and red ink chiefly in two hands, a hybrida libraria (ff. 2-63 and 92-154v) and a gothico-antiqua script (63-91v), in single-columns 17-19 lines long, with inital in red and rubrication. Written in Germany, Bavaria, possibly the diocese of Augsburg. Also contains additions in later hands.
Middle gatherings are probably of a later production than those at the beginning and end, which appear to have been produced at the same time.
Bound in contemporary alum tawed leather with clasps.
See curatorial file for more information.
Purchased with the Susan A. E. Morse Fund, 2015. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990144851690203941/catalog
- Holding Institution:
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