Smith College, Ms. 254

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS300

Shelfmark:

Ms. 254

Title:

[Book of hours (Use of Paris)].

Book of hours

Book of hours (Smith College Ms. 254)

Book of hours

Author:

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France, Northern France

France TGN

Northern France TGN

Date:

[ca. 1450]; 1400-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Binding: Modern brown morocco with gold-tooling and green silk doublures, signed on recto of back flyleaf "Otto," Knoll, New York. In full red morocco split case with binder's title: Horae xv century (case discarded, 2014: damaged and too small for binding).
Other decoration, 161 x 116 (95 x 60) mm.: Five miniatures, one at the beginning of each section, with marginal acanthus leaves and floral decorations.
Script, 161 x 116 (95 x 60) mm.: Gothic textura script with frequent red, blue and gold capital initials (1 and 2 lines) and decorations.

Note:

Manuscript note: Calendar (lacking January and December) -- Hours of the Virgin (Use of Paris) -- Penitential Psalms -- Hours of the Cross -- Hours of the Holy Spirit -- O intimerata -- Obsecro te -- Gospel lections -- Prayers to the Virgin -- Memorial to St. Barbara -- Office of the Dead (abbreviated) -- French prayers (Doulce Dame and Doulx Dieu).
Manuscript note: Miniatures: Annunication (f. 11) -- David in Prayer (f. 61) -- Crucifixion (f. 77v) -- Pentecost (f. 81) -- Burial Service (f. 101).
161 x 116 (95 x 60) mm.: Ms. mid 15th-century France.
161 x 116 (95 x 60) mm.: In Latin.
161 x 116 (95 x 60) mm.: Cropping of margins with some loss of decoration.
161 x 116 (95 x 60) mm.: Binding: modern brown morocco with gold-tooling and green silk doublures, signed on recto of back flyleaf "Otto," Knoll, New York. In full red morocco split case with binder's title: Horae xv century (case discarded, 2014: damaged and too small for binding).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

France

Fifteenth century

Catholic Church

Prayers and devotions

Latin language

Books of hours

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Massachusetts--Northampton

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/Ms.254_48

IIIF Manifest:

https://compass.fivecolleges.edu/node/98426/manifest

Holding Institution:

Smith College