Book of hours (fragment)

Description

Title: Book of hours (fragment)
Published / Created: [ca. 1470]
Publication Place: Belgium?
Abstract: Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from an illuminated Book of Hours. It contains the opening of the Commendation of Souls, a series of psalms often found after the Office of the Dead in English or English-marketed books of hours
Description: In Latin.
Layout: single column of 17 lines.
Script: gothic.
Decoration: historiated initial "B" with a miniature of two souls borne to heaven by two angels, gilt; wide decorated border of blue and green acanthus with flowers and fruits, gilt.
Provenance: Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 1 leaf : 221 mm x 146 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Books of hours
Manuscripts, Medieval Belgium 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Belgium
Bruges
Connecticut
New Haven.
Bruges (Belgium)
Subject (Topic): Books of hours
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Books of hours > Early works to 1800
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Belgium > Bruges > 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Bruges (Belgium)
Belgium > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Book of Hours (Fragment) (Takamiya MS 101). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.