Hours, use unidentified

Description

Title: Hours, use unidentified
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (coarse) of a Book of Hours containing only the Office of the Dead and Penitential Psalms and Litany
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in liturgical gothic script of two sizes, by one person. Prayer on f. 87v is added in a very similar script, but by a less firm hand.
A pencilled note on f. 55r refers to a miniature cut out between ff. 54 and 55. 2-line initials in blue, with red penwork often extending along left border. 1-line initials in blue or red. Rubrication to mark headings within sections in crimson or orange ink.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown calf, blind-tooled. Rebacked; back cover detached.
Provenance: Note on the second flyleaf reads: "Presented to the Library of Yale College" [date unknown].
Extent: ff. iii + ii + 88 + i : 185 x 120 (110 x 67) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
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
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
Books of hours
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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