Hours, use of Rome
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Description
- Title
- Hours, use of Rome
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1500]
- Publication Place
- Lyons
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of Book of Hours, with Full calendar in French
- Description
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In Latin and French.
Script: Written in elegant batarde.
Fourteen full-page miniatures in elaborate architectural frames, gold, with marbelized columns on plinths capped with a lintel or arched, scalloped or triangular pediments, with swags and putti. Twenty-five small miniatures, 13- or 12-line, in black and gold frames, one, f. 106v in a gold and magenta arched frame. Calendar with twenty-four small miniatures in upright rectangular brown and gold frames in outer margin; occupations of the months on rectos, signs of zodiac on versos. 6-line initials with full-page miniatures, blue curling scrolls filled with red, blue and green flowers against gold or gold flowers against red; red and gold grounds with gold filigree. 3- to 1-line initials, gold, against red or blue grounds. Line-fillers and KL monograms in the same manner. Feasts alternate red and blue, with important feasts in gold. Rubrics throughout.
Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Brown calf, gold-tooled, in a reddish-brown gold-tooled box lined with a paste paper. Traces of two fastenings. - Provenance
- Belonged to Cornelius Vanderbilt (no. 192); bequeathed to Yale in his memory by his daughter Gladys Moore Vanderbilt, Countess Laszlo Szechenyi, in 1966.
- Extent
- ff. ii + 113 + iii : 191 x 121 (99 x 52) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 435
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance France 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic)
-
Books of hours
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
Books of hours
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 15th century
France > 16th century
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.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9752019
- Object ID (OID)
- 2034084