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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3426

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.236

Title:

Single leaf from a 15th-century book of hours; in Latin

Book of hours

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

ca. 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 157 x 110 (85 x 60) mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillip J. Pirages (Firm)

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaf.
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 brown ink (no extant rubrics).
Layout: 1 column, 17 lines. Bounding and writing lines in red plummet, bounding lines full-length.
Decoration: Versal initials one-line high, alternating gold on red or gold on blue; on the verso, outer border of spindly vines with minimal acanthus and terminal foliage; bas-de-page illustration of a shrouded corpse in an open field with a fortified city in the background.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Written in France in the mid-fifteenth century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1999 from Pirages.
Call number: MS pb Med.236.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

France

Digital images

Gothic scripts

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Books of hours

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444762

IIIF Manifest:

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library