Book of Hours

Description

Title: Book of Hours
Published / Created: [between 1367 and 1399]
Publication Place: Norwich
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours, containing 1) Computistical table including liturgical feasts. 2) Calendar. 3) Office of the Virgin. 4) Hours of Compassion of the Virgin. 5) Hours of Holy Wisdom. 6) Mass. 7) Penitential Psalms and Litanies. 8) Office of the Dead. Produced in Norwich, England, after 1367
Description: Script: Copied by two hands: A) the main scribe, writes Northern Gothica Textualis Formata with some English features; B) copied quire VI (artt. 5-6) in a smaller and simpler form of the same script. Musical notation in nota quadrata.
Decoration: Red stroking of majuscules. Alternately red and blue 1-line versals. 2-line flourished initials with penwork; 4-line red and blue litterae duplices with blue and red penwork; in art. 8, the musical sections open with large cadels with some red decoration and fancy forms, often featuring grotesque human faces or animals. In ff. 39-42 red rubrics, yellow highlighting of majuscules, red 1-line versals and red 1- and 2-line plain initials.
Binding: 17th century plain brown calfskin over pasteboard; spine (rebacked) with 4 raised bands and gold-tooled title; red edges.
In Latin.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund in honour of Herman W. Liebert, Yale '33.
Extent: ff. 84 : 195 x 130 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Books of hours
Manuscripts, Medieval England 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Book of Hours. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.