Bryn Mawr College, MS 33

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16535

Shelfmark:

MS 33

Title:

Radnor hours #2, use uncertain

Book of hours

Radnor Hours

Place:

France

France TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+94+ii; 148 x 114 mm bound to 156 x 125 mm; parchment

Note:

All full-page miniatures missing; for many sections, text breaks off or begins imperfectly
Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled calf; on spine: EVANGILL/ ET/ PSEAUMES
Layout: Single column, fifteen lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical and horizontal bounding lines; written area: 95 x 60 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Two borders with three sides and two three-line illuminated initials; two- and one-line illuminated initials and line fillers throughout; borders on outer margin throughout; On fols. 49r and 56r a semé of large gold dots adorn the side border; borders and initials smeared or effaced throughout
Provenance: Written in France around the 1460's. Early provenance unknown. On fol. 53r: "Margueritte dela Linde 1618 et/ Jehanne [Morterre] 1618"; Catalogue entry glued to inside cover; longhand catalogue entry on paper glued to fol. iv; on fol. iir, in lead: "On Sale Atkinson Jan 28-22." Given to Bryn Mawr College by Radnor High School, Radnor, Pennsylvania, 14 November 1984

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_MS33.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS33/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College