Harvard University, MS Lat 395

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DS ID:

DS10730

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 395

Title:

Antiphons and prayers for Marian feasts

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1480 - ca. 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 145 leaves, bound : vellum ; 16 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Schenck'sche Fide-Kommiss-Bibliothek Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg

Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg WIKIDATA

Note:

Judging by style and codicology, the ms. was probably written in the convent of Cistercian nuns at Medingen, Germany. See curatorial file.
Written in more than one gothic textura book hand in long lines. Initial letters are in various colors with decoration including burnished gold. Some letters are unfinished, having the ground applied but not gilded. There are 9 larger initials with part-borders. Some initials have protective silk veils sewn over them. On. f. 112v the initial is pinned onto the leaf.
Illustrations of figures, all holding scrolls with texts associated with them: Isaiah (f. 25r), two angels (76v, the scroll text being antiphons), David playing the harp and St. Bernard (75r), St. Gregory (80v), St. Ambrose (81r), St. Anselm (106r).
Bound in 18th-century mottled calf, gilt on spine, edges cut down and marbled.
Schenck'sche Fide-Kommiss-Bibliothek (label on front flyleaf with the number 50); Kulturhistorsiches Museum Magdeburg (stamp on end flyleaf).
Purchased with the Bayard Livingston and Kate Gray Kilgour fund, 2006.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

rules (layout features)

Hymns, Latin

Prayer books

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, in the liturgy

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990099174880203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:10470924

Holding Institution:

Harvard University