The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, KG 27 (LEV b)

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS269

Shelfmark:

KG 27 (LEV b)

Title:

Kalendar from Book of Hours

Calendar

Book of hours

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

s. XV(2); 1450-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

French

French WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Other decoration, One leaf: Text is copied in alternating lines of red and blue with major feasts in gold. Recto has two-line calends, gold KL on red, blue grounds with white infilling.
Script, One leaf: Textura.
Layout, One leaf: Text block 91 x 57 mm. 17 lines, ruled in red.

Former Owner(s):

Purchased by Linda Ehrsam Voigts from Philip Pirages, and given by her in 2012 to the Karen Gould Collection of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art.

Karen L. Gould WIKIDATA

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts WIKIDATA

Linda Ehrsam Voigts WIKIDATA

Note:

One leaf: Latin.
One leaf: This calendar for the month of May has a feast or feasts listed for each day of the month. In calendars where this is the case, the scribe may have been looking for a uniform page with full text block rather than indicating saints venerated in a particular location.
One leaf: This is the calendar leaf for the month of May, which includes the feast of Priscus (26 May).
Explicit, f. 1r: May a xxxi jour /Et a lune xxx /St Jacques St Philippe.
Incipit, f. 1v: Sainte Petronnelle.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/KG27LEVb_46

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/images_KG27LEVb_46/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art