Newberry Library, VAULT Case MS 53

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS17783

Shelfmark:

VAULT Case MS 53

Title:

Book of hours, use of Rome

Book of hours

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

approximately 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, illustrations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 234 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 109 x 75 (58 x 34) mm

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Parchment, 234 leaves; 1-26 39(+1) 48(-5) 510(±4) 68 710(+2, 8) 89(+4) 910(+1, 7) 108(+5) 119(+4) 124 139(+1) 14-158 168(-8) 178 1810 1911(+2) 208 214 229(+1) 23-248 2510(+1, 9) 267(+4) 288 2819(+3) 296; catchwords surrounded by four flourished points.
Layout: Written in 15 long lines; ruled in violet ink.
Script: Written in Italian style gothic textualis rotunda media.
1. Decoration: Sixteen full-page grisaille illuminations with pastel blue, pink, and gold (on inserted sheets with no writing on the recto) accompanied by full blue-grey acanthus frame; full matching margins also on the opposite page separated from text by gold and blue baguettes: fol. 13v (the Annunciation, Virgin reads from the banner held by angel), fol. fol. 34v (the Visitation), fol. 48v...
2. Decoration: gold, black, and white illuminated initials 4 lines high on folios facing the illumations; gold, black, and white dentelle initials on grounds of blue with white patterning throughout; alternating blue initials with red flourishes and gold initials with black flourishes also throughout.
Origin: Written in Flanders, approximately 1475; shows similarity to the style of Willem Vrelent. The manuscript postdates the canonization of Bernardino (1450) mentioned in the calendar.
Unidentified arms painted over original arms and initials; "V. F. V." in lower margin.

Keyword:

textura (Gothic script)

Devotional literature

illuminated manuscripts

Catholic Church

Prayers and devotions

Early works

Books of hours

Europe--Flanders

Liturgics

Texts

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma998736978805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZPBTZ18

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library