Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.240

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3431

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.240

Title:

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

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France]

France TGN

Date:

ca. 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 100 x 75 (55 x 40) mm

Former Owner(s):

Guerrier, Edith, 1870-1958

Edith Guerrier 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 slightly rounded Gothic in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 1 column, 15 lines. Bounding and writing lines in red plummet, bounding lines full-length.
Decoration: 2-line initial on verso in gold on blue and pale red.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Written in France in the mid-fifteenth century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1954 from Edith Guerrier.
Call number: MS pb Med.240.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Digital images

Books of hours

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444767

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/pc28cb88v/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library