Harvard University, MS Typ 553

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11028

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 553

Title:

Officium Beate Marie Virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane ecclesie

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1450-ca. 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 112 leaves, bound : vellum ; 17 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Winthrop, Robert C

Robert Charles Winthrop WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in an Italian gothic rotunda book hand in black and red in one column.
There are 13 historiated initials, 11 of which are incorporated in foliate borders in colors and gold. There are many illuminated initials with pen-work decoration.
Title from incipit, f. 7r, following the calendar (ff. 1r-6v).
The scribe gives his name as Frater Novellus in a subscription on f. 112v.
Bound in 19th-century vellum over boards.
In a tray case, 19 cm.
Deposited by Miss Clara Winthrop, 1968.
Robert C. Winthrop (bookplate and signature on front pastedown); E. J. Hooker née Winthrop (signature and date 1858 below the bookplate).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098484600203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:4074279

Holding Institution:

Harvard University