Harvard University, MS Richardson 5

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10790

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 5

Title:

Horae beatae Mariae virginis (use of Sarum)

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1400

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 73 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 19 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Ingilby, William Henry, Sir, 4th bart., 1874-1950

Sir William Henry Ingilby, 4th Bt. WIKIDATA

Smythley, Garibell

Garibell Smythley WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a compressed semi-quadrata script in 1 column of 24 lines; liturgical calendar (half full) has 1 month on each page. Two full-page miniatures of a funeral mass (f. 44v) and St. Jerome (f. 66v), 4 foliate borders, numerous decorated initials on burnished gold ground and smaller initials in blue and burnished gold with pen flourishes. Written and illuminated in England.
Bound in a vellum leaf from a 16th-cent. antiphonary.
In a tray case, 21 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Belonged to "Madame Garibell Smythley", wife of Henry Ynche, alias Hynche (inscribed, f. [73r]); Lt. Col. Sir W. H. Ingilby of Ripley Castle, Yorkshire; his sale (London, 21 Oct. 1920, lot 83); bought by Maggs; to Richardson (from Maggs, cat. 404, 1921, no. 19).

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscript waste

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Medieval

books of hours

Vellum bindings

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098771030203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:17695424

Holding Institution:

Harvard University