Bryn Mawr College, MS 23

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16525

Shelfmark:

MS 23

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Le Mans ("Leighton Hours")

Book of hours

Leighton Hours

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1400-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Middle French WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i+85+ii; 186 x 128 mm bound to 195 x 141 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Leighton, Gertrude

Gertrude Leighton WIKIDATA

Note:

Stubs where pages with miniatures and decorations excised
Binding: Seventeenth-century leather, blind-tooled front and back, gold-tooled fleur-de-lis in four corners and gold-tooled medallion in center
Layout: Seventeen lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical bounding lines and double upper and single lower horizontal bounding lines, all full across; remains of prickings on some leaves; written area: 110 x 75 mm
Script: Gothic -- textualis
Decoration: Larger illuminations and initials excised; two-line and one-line illuminated initials on a black-framed magenta and blue ground with white penline decoration, line fillers and, in the calendar, KL monograms in same style throughout; rubrication in red
Provenance: Written in France in the fifteenth century; provenance uncertain; three genealogical entries in calendar in different hands below the text; on fol. 4r: "le neuviesme avril mil sept cent un jay espouse ma femme Marie Rose de Lys fille et unique heriteuse de messire sebastien de Lys comte de Beause et de dame jeane de poysment contrat de mariage est raporte de jaunier notaire Royal a...

Keyword:

books of hours

France

illuminations (paintings)

damage (condition)

Fifteenth century

Missing leaves

Books of hours

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS23.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS23/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College