Harvard University, MS Richardson 6

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10787

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 6

Title:

Horae beatae Mariae virginis (use of Paris)

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1435

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin; liturgical calendar in French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 176 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 21 cm.

Note:

Written in a regular textualis semi-quadrata script in 1 column of 15 lines; liturgical calendar (full, with entries in burnished gold, and alternating in blue and rose) of 17 lines. 17 miniatures with painted vignettes (f. 27r) or painted borders of acanthus leaves and flowers; 1 historiated initial, numerous decorated initials on burnished gold ground, and smaller initials with pen...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Bound in 18th-cent. French red morocco, gilt, in the style of Duseuil.
In a tray case, 23 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Obtained from Belin (1909, n. 10).

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

books of hours

Manuscripts, Medieval

illuminations (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098772130203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:15917855

Holding Institution:

Harvard University