Bryn Mawr College, MS 29

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16531

Shelfmark:

MS 29

Title:

Chew Breviary, Use of Poitiers

Breviary

Chew Breviary

Place:

France

France TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+232+iii; 186 x 143 mm bound to 199 x 149 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Chew, Samuel C. (Samuel Claggett), 1888-1960

Samuel Claggett Chew WIKIDATA

Chew, Lucy Evans

Lucy Evans Chew WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Gold-tooled vellum, probably early 19th-century; on upper spine handwritten in ink on paper label: Bréviaire/ Manuscrit./ 15e
Layout: Two columns, twenty-nine or thirty-two lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical and horizontal bounding lines, full length; remains of prickings visible at outer margins, written area: 115 x 87 mm; Calendar five columns, thirty-three lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical and horizontal bounding lines, full length; remains of prickings visible at outer margins
Script: Gothic--textualis quadrata
Decoration: Three- to six-line illuminated initials marking beginnings to sections; full borders on four sides and partial borders containing drolleries as well as partial borders extending from some initials throughout; smaller one-line red or blue initials with black or red penwork grounds; red and blue line fillers in the litany; two-line KL monograms with partial border in Calendar...

Keyword:

Breviaries

France

illuminations (paintings)

Fifteenth century

Liturgics

French (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS29.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS29/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College