Book of Hours (fragments).

Description

Title: Book of Hours (fragments).
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1599].
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of a book of hours with an office for the dead
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by one hand writing in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda).
Decoration: Purplish red rubrics. Yellow highlighting of the majuscules. 1-line versals and 2- or 3-line initials, all in liquid gold on purplish red or blue square background decorated with foliage or flowers in liquid gold. Initials in red, blue, and gold. On f. 1v, there is a rectangular picture, framed in black and gold and treated as an initial 11 lines high, of God the Father with tiara, sitting, one hand on the globe, the other hand blessing rows of Seraphim and Cherubim before him. Elsewhere yellow-colored fleur-de-lys, animals, archers and a giant insects.
Provenance: Donated by Walter Pforzheimer, 1981. Donated 21 Dec. 1981 by Walter Pforzheimer.
Extent: ff. 3 : 185 x 120 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Prayers and devotions
Books of hours
Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval France 16th 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): Books of hours
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
Catholic Church > Liturgy
Books of hours
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 15th century
France > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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