Book of Hours (fragment).

Description

Title: Book of Hours (fragment).
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1499].
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of a Book of Hours containing: the Hours of the Virgin; full-page miniature of mediocre quality depicting the Adoration of the Magi; full-page miniature of mediocre quality depicting the Office of the Dead; the Office of the Dead; and Suffrages
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in a hybrid gothic script mixing elements of littera bastarda and littera cursiva formata.
Decoration: rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Extent: ff. 1-3 : 124 x 89 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

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

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