Harvard University, MS Lat 267

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DS ID:

DS10836

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 267

Title:

Breviary

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1381

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 423 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 20 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843

Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex WIKIDATA

Maskell, William, 1814?-1890

William Maskell WIKIDATA

Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

Charles Eliot Norton WIKIDATA

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

John Ruskin WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a formal gothic script in Ghent, Belgium, and decorated with 15 historiated initials, probably at the Benedictine abbey of St. Peter of Mont-Blandin, near Ghent.
Bound in 18th-cent. Belgian (?) blind-tooled mottled brown calf.
In a protective tray case, 22 cm.
Belonged to the Benedictine abbey of St. Peter of Mont-Blandin, near Ghent (partially erased ex libris, f. 1r: "Sancti Petri in Blandino iuxta Gandavum"; in an unidentified English sale, ca. 1830, no. 13; bookplate with arms and motto of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (MS VI.H.h.15); bookplate of William Maskell; John Ruskin (inscribed, front flyleaf); gift from Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton.
Purchased with funds from the Friends of the Library, 1905.

Keyword:

breviaries

Manuscripts, Medieval

rules (layout features)

Benedictines

Catholic Church

Sint-Pietersabdij (Ghent, Belgium)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990094058890203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:4298057

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794197

Holding Institution:

Harvard University