Wellesley College, MS *81WM-1
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16426
- Shelfmark:
- MS *81WM-1
- Title:
- Book of hours, use of Nantes
- Place:
- Paris, for Nantes
- Date:
- between 1400 and 1410
- Language:
- lat
fre
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ii, 197, iii leaves : parchment ; 180 x 127 (108 x 60) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Govro, Jeanne, active 17th century
Lambert, Henri
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment. 112, 2-38, 48−1, 58, 68−2, 7-108, 118−1+2, 128, 132, 14-228, 238−1, 24-258; lacking one folio after fol. 35 and 174, lacking 2 folios after fol. 46 (the central bifolium of quire 6); fol. 83, 88, and 89 are singletons (the original conjoint of fol. 83 was cut away in the mid- to late-fifteenth century, with the text of fol. 88 and the miniature on fol. 89 inserted to...
Layout: 1 column, 15 lines. Bounding lines full-length at top, bottom, and into inner margin, bounding and writing lines in red plummet.
Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand in black ink. Red rubrics.
Decoration: 2- or 3-line initials alternate blue or rose with white highlighting on gold, with gold-leaf vines into margin; 1-line initials throughout in gold with blue and rose infill; line-fillers blue and rose bars with white and gold highlighting. Eleven half-page miniatures (Parisian in style, according to an unpublished thesis by Margaret Hadley); three full-page miniatures added later...
Origin: Written and decorated in Paris for the use of Nantes in the first decade of the fifteenth century, with later fifteenth-century additions. The use of Nantes is indicated by the Calendar, the Hours of the Virgin, and the Office of the Dead.
Owned in the mid-fifteenth century by the Saint-Gilles family of Brittany (their arms on the added fol. 100). Owned in the seventeenth century by one Jeanne Govro, with gilt ex libris on covers. Nineteenth-century Parisian bookdealer's label inside front cover, "Auguste Fontaine ; E. Rondeau ; Successeur ; 35 Passage des Panoramas ; Paris." Nineteenth-century bookplate of Henri Lambert... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626096
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/34972/manifest
- Holding Institution:
