Harvard University, MS Typ 1005

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10689

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 1005

Title:

Book of hours

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1500

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : vellum ; 17 cm., mounted to 37 x 27 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Lehman, Robert, 1892-1969

Robert Lehman WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in an angular gothic book hand, 17 lines to the page, within a Flemish-style illusionistic border of fruit, flowers, birds and insects on a gold painted ground.
On the recto is a 7-line miniature of the deposition from the cross in tempera, colored inks and gold paint.
Mounted: the verso is not visible.
Gift of Robert Lehman to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Transferred to Houghton Library, 1990.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990112603780203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:11676290

Holding Institution:

Harvard University