Harvard University, MS Typ 463

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10550

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 463

Title:

Book of Hours (Dominican use)

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Artist:

Master of the Suffrages

Master of the Suffrages WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1458 and 1465

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 144 leaves, bound : vellum ; 18 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Gentile di Giuseppe, F

F. Gentile di Giuseppe WIKIDATA

Salem, Adriana R

Adriana R. Salem WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a gothic rotunda book hand in black ink, with red rubrics, in one column. Small initial letters are in blue or burnished gold with pen-work decoration.
There are 4 large and 11 small historiated initials in colors, silver and gold. There are 12 full foliate borders, and other part-borders, by the Master of the Suffrages (see Katzenstein).
On f. 13r the border incorporates arms impaling those of Queen Isabella di Chiaromonte (1404-65) and her husband Ferrante (king of Naples from 1458).
Bound in old blue velvet over wooden boards.
In a tray case, 20 cm.
F. Gentili di Giuseppe (bought between 1900 and 1925); his daughter Adriana Raphael Salem (bookplate).
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ward M. Canaday, 1964.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098262930203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:422676207

Holding Institution:

Harvard University