Vassar College, Leaves 25-29

Metadata

DS ID:

DS30327

Shelfmark:

Leaves 25-29

Title:

Five leaves with miniatures from the calendar of a Book of hours

Book of hours

Miniatures

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1480 and 1520

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill., illuminations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 5 leaves : parchment, ill., illuminations ; 193 x 131 (135 x 79) mm

Note:

Ms. leaves.
Title from Kidd.
Layout: Written in 24 lines; frame-ruled.
Script: Written in calligraphic bâtarde script.
Decoration: miniatures depicting each month's Zodiac sign (outer border of recto) and the Occupation of the Month (lower border of recto.
Origin: Written in France, perhaps Reims or Paris, during the late 15th- or early 16th-century.
Foliated in pencil on lower right corner: '4,' '5,' '9,' '10,' and '12.'
On leaf for October names of saints Remigius, Bishop of Reims, (October 1) and Denis, Bishop of Paris, (October 9) written in gold, suggesting possible origin in one of those cities; A. Marguerite Smith, Trustee and Librarian of the Zion Research Library, Brookline, MS: her name in pencil on verso of leaf for July; present leaves appear in list of manuscripts to be loaned to Vassar and later...

Keyword:

calendars of saints

illuminated manuscripts

Books of hours

bastarda

Manuscripts

miniatures (paintings)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

France

Sixteenth century

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Fifteenth century

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://vassar.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VAC_INST/349upj/alma991019360655107396

Holding Institution:

Vassar College