University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 293

Metadata

DS ID:

DS12520

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 293

Title:

Leaf from a book of hours containing the office of the Virgin Mary

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between approximately 1450 and 1500?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 item : parchment ; 107 x 70 mm

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, single sheet.
Layout: Written in a single column of 15 lines. The margins are ruled in plummet.
Script: Written in a textualis formata script with humanistic influences.
Decoration: Historiated initial (35 x 35 mm) depicting the assumption of the Virgin Mary.
Origin: Possibly written in Italy, during the last half of the fifteenth century.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 293.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Liturgical books

decorated initials

illuminated manuscripts

Books of hours

miniatures (paintings)

Catholic Church

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991049405469706532

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley