The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, KG 40

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS276

Shelfmark:

KG 40

Title:

Book of Hours, excerpt Hours of the Cross

Place:

France, Northern

Northern France TGN

Date:

s. XV; 1400-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Other decoration, One leaf: Border 70 x 37 mm gold background. Fifteen lettered lines in Latin in brown ink with rubricated capitals. Recto, right margin: narcissus, 2 strawberries, violet, 2 strawberries. Verso, left margin: quadrifoliate blue flower, red and pink quadrifoliate flower, sweet pea(?), narcissus, sweet pea, pink and red blossom. Two 2-line initials (recto, verso) with light blue...
Number of scribes, One leaf: 1.
Script, One leaf: Lettre Batard.
Layout, One leaf: Text block and border 70 x 60mm. 14.70.45 x 11.47.13 (border).16.

Former Owner(s):

Lewis Gould purchased from Galena Books from the Los Angeles Book Fair. Gift of Lewis Gould to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 2015 in his wife's memory.

Lewis L. Gould WIKIDATA

Note:

One leaf: Top margin, recto and verso: Of. de la Croix.
f. 1v: Verso.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/KG40_46

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_KG40_46/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art