Prayer book

Description

Title: Prayer book
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1450]
Publication Place: Reims
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (calfskin) of a collection of prayers, passion narratives and hymns
Description: In Middle French and Latin.
Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Libraria (Textus Quadratus, approximately Oeser variant II), with a tendency to develop cadels on the top line, in some cases (f. 57v) featuring a human profile.
Headings in red. Heightening of the majuscules in yellow. 1-line plain versals alternately red and blue; 2-line plain initials and 4-line initials (plain or of the littera duplex type, but without penwork; 5-line on ff. 2r, 126v and 145r) in red and/or blue. Although the main prayers and hymns generally begin with a 4- or 5-line initial, the distribution of the various kinds of initials often seems at random.
Binding: Seventeenth century. Plain brown leather over pasteboard. The spine gold-tooled, with five raised bands. Paper pastedowns; red sprinkled edges.
Provenance: Purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal (ms. 156 in his collection) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. iii + 153 + iii : 205 x 140 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
Latin

Genre: Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Hymns
Manuscripts, Medieval
Passion narratives (Gospels)
Subjects: Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
Hymns
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Passion narratives (Gospels)
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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