Harvard University, MS Lat 440

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10413

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 440

Title:

Prayer book for Easter

Author:

Kloster Medingen

Medingen Abbey WIKIDATA

Date:

circa 1480-1500.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin and Middle Low German

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 218 leaves, bound (.2 linear feet) : vellum ; 17 cm

Note:

Written in a littera hybrida in two hands in brown, red, blue, and green ink, with rubrics; many 2- to 5-line initials in red, blue, and gold some with pen flourishes in violet, red, blue, and pink, 1 historiated initial with border decoration in red, blue, green, and gold (f. 76r), and a full-page miniature depicting the resurrection of Christ.
Bound in brown leather over boards.
In CMI case.
Purchased with the Bayard Livingston and Kate Gray Kilgour Fund, 2014.

Keyword:

prayer books

Kloster Medingen

Jesus Christ

Women--Religious life

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990139360120203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:50260758

Holding Institution:

Harvard University