Bryn Mawr College, MS 26
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16528
- Shelfmark:
- MS 26
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Rome ("Mongan Hours")
- Place:
- Northern Flanders (Brussels?), Belgium
Illustrations, produced separately, from Utrecht, Netherlands?
- Date:
- 1440-1460
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- Parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+72+i; 178 x 114 mm bound to 186 x 127 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Mongan, Agnes
Mongan, Elizabeth
- Note:
- Binding: Nineteenth-century dark brown leather embossed with Tree of Jesse and "EGRE DICTUR VIRGA DE RADICE JESSE ET FLOS DE RADICE EIUS ASCENDET ET REQUIESCET SUPER EUM SPIRITUS DOMINI" (Isaiah 11:1-2) on front and back covers; grey moiré silk inside covers and on first and last flyleaves; silver filigree corner pieces, edgings and clasp; spine embossed with fleurs-de-lis and inscribed in...
Layout: Single column, twenty lines, ruled in purple ink with single vertical bounding lines, full across and horizontal bounding lines running from inner edge of margin to outer vertical line; written area: 112 x 65 mm; Calendar thirty-three lines, four columns, inner columns separated by double vertical bounding lines
Script: Gothic -- textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Twelve full-page miniatures with borders on three sides; five-or six-line illuminated initials beginning each section, two-line illuminated initials beginning subsections, and one-line alternating initials beginning verses; rubrication in red; red penwork flourishes throughout
Provenance: Written around 1450, in Northern Flanders, perhaps Brussels; the illustrations, which were produced separately, may come from Utrecht; early provenance unknown; unidentified 1910 catalogue entry inside front cover; given to Bryn Mawr College in 1982 by Agnes and Elizabeth Mongan - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS26.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS26/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
