Book of hours (fragment)

Description

Title: Book of hours (fragment)
Published / Created: [ca. 1300]
Publication Place: Flanders
Abstract: Lower half of a single manuscript leaf, on parchment, containing five lines of text and marginal decoration. From the "Ghistelles Hours."
Description: In Latin.
Script: Gothic.
Decoration: decorated border showing two hounds chasing a stag.
Byname: Ghistelles Hours.
Provenance: Previously owned by Sir Sydney Cockerell? Previously owned by Alan G. Thomas. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 1 leaf : 65 x 85 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Books of hours
Manuscripts, Medieval Flanders 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Books of hours
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Books of hours > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Flanders > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 > Ownership
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership
Thomas, Alan G. > Ownership

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Citation: Book of Hours (Fragment). Takamiya MS 142.