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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3402

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.188

Title:

Single leaf from a 15th-century book of hours : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Vienne?]

Vienne TGN

Date:

between 1475 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 186 x 124 (110 x 70) mm

Former Owner(s):

Sandbergs Bokhandel, Stockholm

Sandbergs Bokhandel WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Office of the Dead, Matins.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a bâtarde script in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 1 column, 19 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light red ink.
Decoration: 1-line versals mid-line throughout in gold on red or blue with gold filigree highlighting; 4-line Psalm initial on recto in blue with white on gold background, floriate infill; 1/4 floriate border, outer margin verso, in gold ink and colors on blue; 1/2-page miniature on recto, Job on the dungheap: Job sits on the dungheap at right, wearing only a draped loincloth, with three...
Binding: Housed in a thick board folder with cutout mylar window, in an oversize manila folder.
Origin: Written in northern France in the late 15th century, possibly for the use of Vienne; the antiphon "Requiem eternam dona," when used as the first antiphon of Matins, suggests that use.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Sandbergs Bokhandel, Stockholm.
Call number: MS pb Med.188.
Former call number: BPL MS 1614.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

France

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Digital images

Books of hours

Gothic scripts

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444737

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q858/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library