Harvard University, MS Richardson 10

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10781

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 10

Title:

Horae beatae Mariae virginis (use of Paris)

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1515

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin, with calendar and some prayers in French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 158 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 17 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589

Catherine de' Medici WIKIDATA

Picard, Charles Adrien

Charles-Adrien Picard WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in bâtarde script in 1 column of 21 lines; 17 large miniatures, 1 historiated border, numerous foliate borders and decorated initials.
Illuminated in France.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Bound in French enameled copper, ca. 1560, with device and initials of Catherine de' Medici.
In a tray case, 19 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Belonged to unidentified nobleman (represented on f. 85r); Catherine de'Medici; Charles Adrien Picard, ca. 1740-50; his sale (Paris, 31 Jan. 1780, no. 41); appears in 18th-cent. catalogues (nos. 14, 6752); sold at Sotheby's (London, 6 May 1909, lot 31); to Maggs; to Richardson.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

illuminations (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098778050203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:5141169

Holding Institution:

Harvard University