Harvard University, MS Riant 94

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10817

Shelfmark:

MS Riant 94

Title:

Preces piae

Date:

between 1425 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

ger

German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 79 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 15 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Riant, comte 1836-1888

Paul Riant WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in hybrida script in black ink with 3 historiated initials of acanthus-filled letters on gilt ground representing Christ crucified between Mary and John (f. 1r), the holy face of Christ (12v) and Mary, crowned, in 3/4 length view (31r); same pages are decorated with foliate borders of enlarged acanthus and blossoms on stems. Five decorated initials of colored or gilt letters, smaller...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Bound in early 16th-cent. stamped calf over wooden boards.
In a tray case, 16 cm.
Belonged to Paul Edouard Didier, comte de Riant (purchased from Trübner in Strasbourg, 1886, n. 50).
Gift of J. Randolph Coolidge and Archibald Cary Coolidge, 1899.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Medieval

indulgences (documents)

prayer books

books of hours

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098172000203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:16232614

Holding Institution:

Harvard University