Harvard University, MS Typ 193

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11093

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 193

Title:

Book of hours (Sarum use)

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

1400-1450], [ca. 1490

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

enm

Middle English WIKIDATA

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 190 leaves, bound : vellum ; 25 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Bateman family Blount, Richard, -1508

Richard Blount WIKIDATA

Horne, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Horne WIKIDATA

Sarsden Parish Church (Oxfordshire, England)

Church of St James, Sarsden WIKIDATA

Note:

Part A is written in two different gothic book hands in black ink in one column, initials and line-fillers in blue, red and gold, with pen-work decoration. Part B is written in a later gothic book hand in red and black.
Part A contains 9 illuminated initials of which one is historiated (f. 155v), and various foliate borders. Part B contains 3 illuminated initials and 11 miniatures showing the instruments of the Passion.
Part A was probably written in London, to judge from the calendar containing St. Erkenwald.
Bound in 16th-century brown calf, with blind-stamped royal arms, Tudor rose, and instruments of the passion arranged armorially, by John Reynes. There are 2 modern brass clasps.
In a tray case, 27
Given by Elizabeth Horne to the parish church of Sarsden, Oxfordshire in 1541; Bateman of Middleton Hall, Derbyshire (bookplate).
Deposited by Philip Hofer, 1967; bequeathed, 1984.

Keyword:

emblem books

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990095937350203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:3710788

Holding Institution:

Harvard University