Hours, use of Paris

Description

Title: Hours, use of Paris
Published / Created: s. XVI^^in [beginning of the 16th century]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (fine) of a Book of Hours with full calendar including the major Franciscan and Dominican feasts. and The letters E, F, and G, surrounded by the cordeliere borders on each text page probably refer to the original owner, who remains unidentified; the prominent use of the knotted cordeliere borders suggests that MS 375 was produced for a member of the sisterhood Chevalieres de la Cordeliere, founded in 1498 by Anne of Brittany for widows of the nobility.
Description: Autograph inscription on front free endpaper verso: Duchesse de Berry No. 17.
Binding: [19--]. Tortoise shell sides with two gold-plated [?] clasps. Pale blue watered silk doublures.
Extent: 1 vol.
125 x 85 (83 x 50) mm.
color illustrations
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: Latin

Format: mixed material
Genre: Calendars
Hand coloring
Illuminated manuscripts
Illustrations
Miniatures (Illuminations)
Prayers
Rubrics
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Berry, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de, 1798-1870
Rothschild, Edmond, baron de, 1845-1934
Subject (Topic): Books of hours
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Monasticism and religious orders

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Citation: Hours, Use of Paris. 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 375.

Orbis Record: 9780776
OID: 2014402
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms375.htm