Book of Hours (fragment)

Description

Title: Book of Hours (fragment)
Published / Created: [ca. 1330]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript leaf, on parchment, containing prayers from before Matins. From the "Hungerford Hours."
Description: In Anglo-Norman French.
Layout: single-column; 17 lines.
Script: Gothic.
Decoration: 5 illuminated initials with decorative extensions and decorative line fillers, with gilt.
Byname: Hungerford Hours.
Provenance: Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 1 l. : 168 x 105 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: No attempt to code

Genre: Early works to 1800
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 (Topic): Books of Hours
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Books of Hours > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Book of Hours (Fragment). Takamiya MS 143. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.