Book of hours

Description

Title: Book of hours
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours. With prayers in Italian, probably made for a female member of the Augustinian order
Description: In Latin and Italian.
Script: copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda).
Headings in red. 1-line versals alternately in red and blue; 2-line flourished initials with marginal extensions alternately in red and blue, the penwork in the contrasting colour (the normal type of initials throughout the manuscript); 3-line flourished KL ligatures in art. 1; 5-line litterae duplices or initials in the style of litterae duplices with developed penwork at the opening of the various Hours in art. 2; 6-line ditto in art. 3; a 4-line flourished initial at the opening of the Mass of the Virgin in art. 5. All initials are half inset.
Binding: original Italian brown cloth over wooden boards, sewn onto three double leather thongs; the cloth is embroidered with silver thread to a design of stars, squares and maltese crosses. Gilt and gauffered edges.
Provenance: The Albert H. Childs, Yale '61, Memorial Collection at Yale University Library.
Extent: ff. i + 263 + i : 105 x 75 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin
Italian

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

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