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
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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
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1 vol.
114 x 84 (61 x 46) mm.
color illustration - Extent of Digitization
- Completely digitized
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 287
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- mixed material
- Genre
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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)
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Books of hours
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- 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