Hours, use of Rome


Description

Title
Hours, use of Rome
Published / Created
s. XV^^ex [end of the 15th century]
Publication Place
Flanders
Abstract
Manuscript on parchment (extremely fine; trimmed).
Description
Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Gilt, gauffered edges. Previously bound in brick colored velvet, over wooden boards; remains of velvet on turn-ins. An elaborate clasp with round blue sapphire and the initials "V. M." joined by a love knot on the inner side. Rebacked.
Miniatures, borders, and initials of very high quality, executed by an artist of the Ghent-Bruges school. In the calendar, 24 miniatures, painted so that the written space appears to be superimposed on a full-page picture; the sign of the zodiac for each month is set in a small gold or grey oval above the second page for each month. Each calendar page enclosed in a gold and brown frame.
Script: Written in round gothic script by one scribe.
Six miniatures with full borders, in frames. The manuscript almost certainly contained 16 more full-page miniatures that are now missing (see MS 287A). Twelve illuminated initials, 5-line, letters formed of curling acanthus on pink and/or blue, brown and green, or blue and green grounds; borders of flowers or architectural elements. Border decoration on every page without a full border: one bird, flower, grotesque, piece of jewelry, insect, or, occasionally, a household utensil, in each of the three outer margins, traced and painted on the following verso. 2- and 1-line initials in the same style as 5-line initials, with blue or pink grounds. Ribbon line fillers in the same style. Rubrication in pale crimson: in calendar, for months, dates, and important feasts.
Water has caused ink to run in the upper left of f. 151r; no loss of text.
Extent
1 vol.
114 x 84 (61 x 46) mm.
color illustration
Extent of Digitization
Completely digitized
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Call Number
Beinecke MS 287

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

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

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Citation
Hours, Use of Rome. 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 287.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
9789729
OID
2004052
More Information
https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms287.htm

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