Book of Hours (fragment).

Description

Title: Book of Hours (fragment).
Published / Created: [14--].
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of a book of hours containing St. Nicholas (6 November) and St. Catharine of Alexandria (25 November).
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis).
Decoration: two miniatures of mediocre quality, one for each saint; the miniature of St. Nicholas shows him in bishop's clothing, holding a staff and a book, and standing next to a tub with two children in it; St. Catharine is depicted as crowned, holding a book and a sword; on the floor behind her is the wheel upon which she was tortured; the antiphons and orations begin with a 2-line initial in gold on an alternating ground of blue with white filigree or red; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; rubrics written in red minuscule; upper, lower, and outer borders decorated with blue and gold vines, red vines with blue and red or gold and blue with gold flowers in the inner margin on the recto only.
Provenance: Gift of Henrietta C. Bartlett in 1954.
Extent: ff. 1 : 185 x 138 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

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

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