Grolier Club, MS 18

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS214

Shelfmark:

MS 18

Title:

Chy commenchent les eures de la crois
Book of Hours

Place:

France, Picardy

France TGN

Date:

s. XV(3/4); 1450-1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Other decoration, f. 1r-v: 7-line painted initial on square gold ground; 2- and 1-line initials in gold on white-patterned alternating rose or blue grounds with the other color as infilling; gold and colors bar border in the outer and lower margins with acanthus/flower sprays.
Script, f. 1r-v: Gothic.
Layout, f. 1r-v: 16 long lines.

Former Owner(s):

Discovered in the Grolier Club's files, September 2009.

Grolier Club WIKIDATA

Note:

f. 1r-v: Copied ca. 1460s.
f. 1r-v: Latin.
f. 1r-v: Contains the opening of the Short Hours of the Cross.
Incipit, f. 1r-v: et misericordiam fidelibus defunctis.
Explicit, f. 1r-v: Domine labia mea aperies.

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_MS18_24/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Grolier Club