Bryn Mawr College, MS 21
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16523
- Shelfmark:
- MS 21
- Title:
- Castle hours #3, use uncertain
- Place:
- Northern France
- Date:
- 1450-1475
- Language:
- Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
- Material:
- Parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+90+ii; 140 x 104 mm bound to 147 x 113 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Broulin, Guilberto
Borthwick, John (1824-1907)
Castle, Ethelinda Schaefer
- Note:
- The binding was conserved by CCAHA in 2004 through the kind gift of the Samuel N. & Mary Castle Foundation.
Also called Castle Hours #3
Binding: Eighteenth-century leather, gold-tooled with a frame of flowers around a scattering of fleur de lys, in the center a garland of vines the name BERTHELEMY appears in gold on the upper front cover and DU MONTYER on the back.
Layout: Single column, twenty-one lines, red ink, horizontal lines edge to edge; written area: 80 x 60 mm
Script: Bâtarde
Script: Scribe: Guilberto Broulin ?
Decoration: Seventeen full-page miniatures with borders on three sides, facing pages with opening of texts, six-line initials and borders on three sides, three smaller miniatures with borders on three sides surrounding image and text, other pages narrow outside border matching text block in height, two-line section initials in gold with alternating red and blue backgrounds, one-line sentence...
Provenance: Written and illustrated in Northern France in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. Colophon at end of the Office of the Dead on fol. 85r, in the same hand as the text: "Pertinet Guilberto Broulin qui les a faictes" suggests that the owner and the scribe were the same person. On fol.18r a note written in English in a much later (and badly faded) hand: "This forgoing report... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS21.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS21/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
