- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 662
- Image Count:
- 331
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment. The illumination is influenced by the style of Jean Fouquet (d. 1480) and the manuscript belongs to a group that has been called the "Fouquet Workshop Books of Hours".
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: The Calendar is copied by a scribe writing Northern Gothica Textualis Formata, Variant III in the Oeser system; the text is by another scribe, writing Variant IV in the Oeser system, in two sizes., Headings in red. Heightening of the majuscules in yellow. Rectangular line-fillers in blue and red with white pernwork and some gold. 1-line dentelle initials with a blue and red background. 2-line foliate initials alternately in blue and red. These are accompanied by a rectangular unframed outer-margin acanthus border. Arch-topped miniatures above three lines of text, with 3-line foliate initial and full acanthus border, framed in red and often containing grotesques., and Binding: ca. 1600. Brown morocco over pasteboard, covers and spine elaborately gold-tooled. Gilt edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hours, use of Paris
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