Book of hours (fragment).

Description

Title: Book of hours (fragment).
Contributor: Sanvito, Bartolomeo, 1433-1511.
Published / Created: [ca. 1480-1489].
Publication Place: Rome
Abstract: Manuscript leaf, on parchment, in the hand of the scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito, containing 12 lines from the Office of the Dead
Description: In Latin.
Layout: single column; 12-line page.
Script: Humanist.
Decoration: Gilt initial Q against a rose-gold background.
Provenance: Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 1 leaf : 119 mm x 79 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Books of hours
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Sanvito, Bartolomeo, 1433-1511.
Subject (Topic): Books of hours
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Sanvito, Bartolomeo, 1433-1511
Books of hours > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Book of Hours (Fragment). Takamiya MS 111.