Bryn Mawr College, MS 20

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16522

Shelfmark:

MS 20

Title:

Castle Hours #2, Use of Rouen

Book of hours

Castle Hours

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1440-1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; French

Latin WIKIDATA

French WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+125+ii; 158 x 105 mm bound to 166 x 122 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Castle, Ethelinda Schaefer

Ethelinda Schaefer Castle WIKIDATA

Note:

Fols. 13r-14r later inserts in lettre bâtarde
Binding: Early eighteenth-century gold-tooled calf (retained) replaced with modern conservation binding
Layout: Single column, sixteen lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical bounding lines
Script: Gothic--textualis quadrata
Script: Bâtarde
Decoration: Eight full-page miniatures above three or four lines of text with borders on four sides, borders in outer margin throughout, three-line illuminated initials beginning most sections, two- and one-line illuminated initials beginning all verses, calendar entries beginning with illuminated initials; The Hours of the Virgin only include full-page miniatures of the annunciation for...

Keyword:

books of hours

miniatures (paintings)

France

illuminations (paintings)

illustrations (layout features)

Fifteenth century

Christianity

French (culture or style)

Books of hours

Prayers and devotions

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS20.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS20/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College