Bryn Mawr College, MS 22

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16524

Shelfmark:

MS 22

Title:

Castle Hours # 5, Use of Paris

Book of hours

Castle Hours

Place:

France

France TGN

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Middle French WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: vi+96+vi; 181 x 117 mm bound to 190 x 130 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Castle, Ethelinda Schaefer

Ethelinda Schaefer Castle WIKIDATA

Note:

All full-page miniatures missing; for many sections, text breaks off or begins imperfectly
Collation not possible due to number of missing leaves and fragile condition
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled, acid-stained calf; on spine in gold: "Heures"
Layout: Single column, fifteen lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical and horizontal bounding lines, full length; written area: 95 x 58 mm
Layout: Calendar four columns, seventeen lines, double ruled for vertical divisions
Script: Gothic -- textualis quadrata
Decoration: Two three- line illuminated initials with penwork extensions and two-and one-line illuminated initials with penwork extensions throughout; rubrications in red; much of the gold worn off and inks faded and smeared throughout
Provenance: Written in the Paris/Rouen region of France in about 1430; early provenance unknown; the name "M. DeVilleroy," and "Villeroy," occur in the top or the bottom margin on several leaves throughout the text in a later hand; on fol. 1r: "Villeroy / Jacques," on 9v: "Villeroy 1755"; on fol. ii recto in a modern hand: "Offert par M. Long Depaquit." Bookplate: "Ex libris CP"; in the...

Keyword:

books of hours

France

illuminations (paintings)

damage (condition)

Fifteenth century

French (culture or style)

Books of hours

Prayers and devotions

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS22.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS22/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College