Western Michigan University, WMU MS 107

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6390

Shelfmark:

WMU MS 107

Title:

Book of hours bifolium

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle Dutch

Middle Dutch WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 bifolium : parchment ; 150 x 226 mm

Note:

Ms. leaves,
Title supplied by cataloger.
Detached bifolium with cuts visible from binding.
Single bifolium originally bound in a gathering, 18 long lines. Ruled in drypoint with single boundary lines. Written in gothic textualis libraria. Pricking in outer margins. Rubricated. Framed sometime before 1979, removed from frame May 21, 2010.
Decoration: 5-line illuminated initial "B" with elaborate blue and gold finial and gold, white, blue and green foliate border decoration; single-line blue and gold pen initials.
Origin: Produced in Flanders in the 15th century.
Produced in Flanders in the 15th century. In ink on back of frame: "Vellum Leaves Man[uscript]" Sticker on back of frame: "The Bonfoey Co...Cleveland, O." Loaned by Gethsemani Abbey Library, Kentucky to the Western Michigan University Library School through Jean Lowrie in 1974; now permanently held by Western Michigan University Libraries, Special Collections.

Keyword:

decorated initials

Gothic scripts

books of hours

textura (Gothic script)

Manuscripts, Dutch

Catholic Church

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/4vcoc/01WMU_ALMA21340124940002436

IIIF Manifest:

https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/WMUwmu~77~77~1222612~160328/manifest

Holding Institution:

Western Michigan University