Hours; Portion of calendar for December

Description

Title: Hours; Portion of calendar for December
Published / Created: [between 1475 and 1500]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment
Description: In French.
Script: Written in gothic bastarda script.
Initials in red, blue, and gold. Illuminated marginal miniatures, one with a man threshing wheat in a town and the other with a mythological goat/serpent hybrid. Text in red, brown, and blue inks.
Provenance: Donated by Walter Pforzheimer, 21 Dec 1981.
Extent: 180 x 112 (106 x 64, with an illuminated marginal strip on the outside of the leaf 26 mm. wide) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

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

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