University of Kansas, MS A6

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1106

Shelfmark:

MS A6

Title:

Book of hours,

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[between 1451-1475]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 161 leaves : parchment, illuminations ; 110 x 85 mm

Former Owner(s):

Despine, Claude Joseph Constant, 1807-1873

Claude Joseph Constant Despine WIKIDATA

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript codex
Collation: ii (paper, i is pastedown) + 161 (parchment) + i (paper, pastedown).
Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords.
Layout: 14 long lines ruled in red ink.
Script: Bâtarde, several hands.
Decoration: 7 full-page miniatures; viny borders with various fruits and flowers in outer margins; initials and line-fillers in gold on red/blue background with white tracery.
Binding: Late sixteenth-century. Bound in leather over paper boards; gilt and tooled à la fanfare.
Origin: Probably written in Champagne, France in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
Former shelfmark: MS BK X6
Lawrence, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS A6
Pastedowns are made up of repurposed print material.
Early history of the manuscript is unknown. Bookplate of Claude Joseph Constant Despine.

Keyword:

Printed waste

Leather bindings

Bookplates

Gold tooled bindings

Catholic Church

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, French

Books of hours

Institutional Record:

https://kuprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1n9tuvc/KU_VOYAGER2954834

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_MSA6_30/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

University of Kansas