Harvard University, MS Typ 657

Images provided by hosting institution via

Metadata

DS ID:

DS11018

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 657

Title:

Book of hours, use of Rouen, in Latin and French

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1475-ca. 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

fre

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 118 leaves, bound : vellum ; 18 cm.

Note:

Written in a gothic book-hand in brown ink, with 1-, 2- and 3-line initial letters and line-fillers in red, blue, white, and burnished gold.
There are 7 large miniatures in tempera and gold (ff. 13, 25, 46, 63, 69, 85, and 111), and 17 foliate borders.
The calendar (ff. 1-12) and prayers beginning "Doulce dame de misericorde" (111r-118v) are in French.
Later pagination in graphite in lower corners, numbering the calendar a-x and the remaining leaves 1-197, stopping at the final full-page miniature.
Bound in 19th-century red morocco, gilt.
Given by Andrew Oliver in memory of Peter Oliver '22, 1978.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098542610203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:4145787

Holding Institution:

Harvard University