Bryn Mawr College, MS 27
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16529
- Shelfmark:
- MS 27
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ("Streeter-Piccard Hours")
- Place:
- Flanders, Belgium
- Date:
- 1430-1450
- Language:
- Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
- Material:
- Parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+97+i; 186 x 140 mm bound to 190 x 148 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Streeter, Ruth, 1895-1990
Piccard, Jeannette, 1895-1981
- Note:
- Two prayers, in French, in two different hands on fol. 8v
The fourteen illuminations in this text are painted in the style of the Master(s) of Otto van Moerdrecht (fl. c. 1420-50); the prior identification with Nicolas Brouwer (because of the "b" stamp) has been shown to be incorrect; we are indebted to James D. Farquhar for his helpful comments on this text and its illuminations; the illustrated leaves, with the possible exception of Saint Barbara...
Binding: Early eigthteenth-century gold-tooled French crimson morocco; fully gilt spine and edges; spine stamped in gold: "HEURES MANUSC"
Layout: Single column, twenty-five lines, ruled in ink with single vertical bounding lines, and double upper horizontal bounding lines full across; written area: 122 x 76 mm; Calendar thirty-four lines, four columns, single bounding lines except for double upper horizontal bounding lines
Script: Gothic -- semi-quadrata
Decoration: Fourteen full-page miniatures with borders on three sides; borders on top and bottom throughout; ten- to thirteen-line illuminated initials beginning each section; six-line illuminated initials I, outside the written area, throughout; two-line illuminated initials and 1-line initials with red penwork flourishes throughout; rubrication in red
Related resource: Snyder, James, "'Where Subtle Workmanship will Brightly Shine'-- Late Gothic Books of Hours in the Canaday Library," Bryn Mawr Now 8.4 (April 1981).
Related resource: Farquhar, James Douglas, "Identity in an Anonymous Age: Bruges Manuscript Illuminators and Their Signs," Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 11 (1980), pp. 371-383.
Related resource: Sotheby-Park Bernet Catalogue, Monday, 21 June 1982: Twenty Western Illuminated Manuscripts from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Century from the Library at Donaueschingen, #15. Book of Hours with Printed Initials," pp. 95-99.
Related resource: Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University, v. 2 (1987) pp. 102-106. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS27.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS27/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
