The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, KG 39

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS281

Shelfmark:

KG 39

Title:

Book of Hours

Place:

France

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 120 x 28 mm vine border with gilt leaves, with alternating red fruit (strawberries & pomegranates) with red & blue flowers (including cornflowers). Verso line 3 “Amen” followed by blue quatrefoil flower at end of line. One 2-line initial gilt in red frame, blue infilling, white flourishing. Fourteen 1-line initials similar to 2-line initial but alternating...
Script, One leaf: Textura Formata.
Layout, One leaf: Text block and border 129 x 106 mm. 17 lines. Ink frame ruling on recto is block only (does not include marginal borders) but on verso ruling includes border. Recto 32.7.120.68 x 31.77.28(border).29.

Former Owner(s):

Purchased by John Herbst from Glenn Books, Kansas City, MO. Donated IN 2014 to the Karen Gould Collection, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Karen L. Gould WIKIDATA

Purchased by John Herbst from Glenn Books, Kansas City, MO. Donated IN 2014 to the Karen Gould Collection, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

John Herbst WIKIDATA

Note:

Incipit, One leaf: beatus vir qui implevit desideri.
Explicit, One leaf: capativitatem syon facti sumus sicut consolati.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/KG39_46

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_KG39_46/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art