Grolier Club, MS 07

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS203

Shelfmark:

MS 07

Title:

Book of hours, use of Paris

Artist:

Master of the Brotherhood of Ste. Catherine

Master of the Brotherhood of Ste. Catherine WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

s. XV(med); 1440-1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Bound in modern black morocco with gilt arabesque designs by Riviere and Son, 1889; spine gilt in 6 panels; edges gilt.
Figurative details, ff. 1-154v: 13 half-page miniatures in arched frames.
Script, ff. 1-154v: Gothic.
Layout, ff. 1-154v: 19 gatherings mainly of 8 leaves; 16 long lines (17 long lines in the calendar).

Former Owner(s):

Traces of a library stamp on f. 1. Acquired from Robson and Kerslake (according to de Ricci) by Daniel B. Fearing of Newport, Rhode Island who gave it to the Grolier Club in 1908.

Robson & Kerslake WIKIDATA

Traces of a library stamp on f. 1. Acquired from Robson and Kerslake (according to de Ricci) by Daniel B. Fearing of Newport, Rhode Island who gave it to the Grolier Club in 1908.

Daniel B. Fearing WIKIDATA

Note:

Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1290.
ff. 1-154v: Artist of the Annunciation with some similarties to the Master of Thomas Hoo; secondary artist provisionally named as above from The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 76 E 18; both artists in the tradition of the Boucicaut Master and the Bedford Master.
ff. 1-154v: Latin.
ff. 1-154v: Full calendar in French; gospel pericopes; Obsecro te & O intemerata (masc. forms); Hours of the BVM; Penitential psalms & litany; Short hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit; Office of the dead; prayers in French (Sonet 458, 504, 1876).

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_MS07_24/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Grolier Club