De Levis Hours


Description

Title
De Levis Hours
Published / Created
s. XV^^1/4 [ca. 1400-1425]
Publication Place
Paris
Abstract
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of a Book of Hours, use of Paris. Includes a Full calendar, Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, Seven Requests, and a sonnet, all in French.
Description
Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Gilt edges. Red velvet with a silver fastening and a silver medallion, with unidentified male figure preaching, in center of upper board.
Script: Written in Gothic bookhand.
Sixteen miniatures from the workshops of the Lucon Master and the Master of the Duke of Bedford, in blue, pink, and gold arched frames, some with cusping. Each miniature with a lavish acanthus border incorporating arms on ff. 77r and 93r. Text pages with a 3/4 bar border, pink, blue and gold, with interlace knots at corners and terminals and delicate rinceaux, in two sizes on different folios. 3-line initials at text opening, two historiated: f. 77r and f. 93r; f. 51r with a blue and gold diapered ground; the remainder, blue with white highlights or in pink and blue acanthus filled with ivy, with blue and orange leaves, on gold, against pink, blue and/or gold grounds with white filigree; framed in gold, often with small ivy or acanthus serifs. 4- to 2-line initials in text and KL monograms, pink or blue with white highlights, filled with ivy, as above. 1-line initials blue, pink and gold with white filigree. Line endings, blue, pink and gold, three (ff. 57r, 102r, 102v) signed by Petrus Gilberti, known to have signed line-endings in at least four other manuscripts. Rubrics throughout.
Extent
ff. i + 189 + i : parchment ; 216 x 153 (104 x 68) mm.
Extent of Digitization
Completely digitized
Language
French
French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)
Latin

Collection Information

Call Number
Beinecke MS 400

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
mixed material
Genre
Bible
Calendars
Hand coloring
Historiated initials
Illuminated manuscripts
Illustrations
Psalters
Rubrics
Resource Type
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name)
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic)
Books of hours
Devotional literature, French
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation
De Levis Hours. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. and Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 400.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
9731215
OID
2001878
More Information
https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms400.htm

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