Bryn Mawr College, MS 30

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16532

Shelfmark:

MS 30

Title:

Havens hours, use uncertain

Book of hours

Havens Hours

Place:

Northern France

Northern France TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i+93+i; 204 x 146 mm bound to 212 x 157 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Abbé [Dourout] Williams, Edward H.

Edward H. Williams WIKIDATA

Havens, Ida M.

Ida M. Havens WIKIDATA

Havens, W. Paul, Jr. (Walter Paul), 1911-1992

Walter Paul Havens WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding restored by J. MacDonald Co., Norwalk, Conn.
All full-page miniatures missing; for each section, text breaks off or begins imperfectly
Binding: Eighteenth-century tooled tan calf; spine replaced with modern conservation binding
Layout: Single column, fourteen lines, ruled in red ink, single vertical bounding lines, full across; written area: 100 x 73 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Each leaf illuminated with side border in outer margin, the verso a mirror image of the recto; two- and one-line initials and line fillers throughout; some initials extending into top or bottom margin; rubrication in gold throughout
Provenance: Written in Northern France about 1450. Early provenance unknown. Ownership note on fol. iv: "Abbé [Dourout]/ Curé deVer et/ [Lugne]. Bookplate of Edward H. Williams. Given to Bryn Mawr College by Dr. W. Paul Havens and Mrs. Ida Havens in 1981

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_MS30.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS30/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College