Harvard University, MS Lat 249

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DS ID:

DS10874

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 249

Title:

use of Rome

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1485

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 132] leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 22 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Charles Sumner WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a gothic bookhand, ruled for 16 lines, calendar for 17 lines, with feasts in gold and alternating in blue and red. Two full-page illuminations, including a 16th-cent. addition, illustrating a noble lady presented to the Virgin and Child by St. Bernard (f. 2r), 8 large and 14 small miniatures attributed to the Master of the Burgundian Prelates, with decorated initials, and foliate...
Includes a full-page colored drawing representing the owner's (Bitault family?) genealogy by means of a tree with coats-of arms hanging along the branches (f. 131v).
Bound in19th-cent. black morocco with silver clasps.
In a protective tray case, 25 cm.
Bequest of Charles Sumner, 1874.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

books of hours

Manuscripts, Medieval

illuminations (paintings)

Catholic Church

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990094027520203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:26120881

Holding Institution:

Harvard University