Harvard University, MS Richardson 34

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10457

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 34

Title:

Horae beatae Mariae virginis (Sarum use)

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1450-1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 150 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 30 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Latham family Woodin, William Hartmann

William H. Woodin WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a compressed textualis semi-quadrata in 1 column of 18 lines; 12 large miniatures, numerous foliate decorated initials and inhabited borders, and secondary initials in burnished gold and blue with pen flourishes.
The calendar is for an English church (Wulstan of Sherborne, Richard of Chichester, Dunstan of Canterbury, Swithin of Winchester, Winefride of Anglia, feast and translation of Erkenwald (bishop of London and patron saint of Southend-on-Sea, among other places), and feast of Erasmus.
Bound in 19th-cent. red velvet with two silver clasps.
In a tray case, 33 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Belonged to a member of the Lathum family, 16th cent. (inscription, f. 2r, records birth of William Lathum in 1501); William H. Woodin; his sale (New York, 1941, lot 317); to Richardson.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Medieval

illuminations (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098874310203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:6135067

Holding Institution:

Harvard University