- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 142
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Lower half of a single manuscript leaf, on parchment, containing five lines of text and marginal decoration. From the "Ghistelles Hours."
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Gothic., Decoration: decorated border showing two hounds chasing a stag., and Byname: Ghistelles Hours.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours (fragment)
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 16
- Image Count:
- 494
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours with Calendar (rather empty) and headings in French
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in formal batarde script; ff. 238r-241v in a different hand than the preceding folios, but probably almost contemporary., Thirteen undistinguished historiated initials (6-, 4-, and 3-line), ca. 1460-70, blue or pink with white highlights on brown grounds with gold highlights. Six other initials (ff. 13r, 17r, 27r, 107r, 155r, and 195r) enclose carefully studied flowers. Scatter and compartmentalized borders of average quality added later, ca. 1480-1500, for the most part to pages with historiated or flower initials, similar to borders in manuscripts of the "Ghent Associates"; the majority with acanthus branches, flowers, and birds, or flowers alone scattered on backgrounds of pink, bright blue, slate blue, gold and/or black, or flowers set within a lattice of twigs, the diamonds so formed alternately pink and blue (f. 123r) or green, pink and blue (f. 238r). Three borders (ff. 27v, 69v, and 136v) with thistles, brown and blue or brown and green, touched with gold, arranged in a wallpaper-like pattern over grounds of slate-blue or red cross-hatched with lines in a darker shade of the same color. In the border on f. 107r, a grotesque with the torso of a man and the hind legs of a large cat; on f. 185r the same, holding a bow., 2-line initials in gold on pink and blue with white highlights, except on ff. 238r-241v, gold on blue and brown with white highlights. 1-line initials in blue with red penwork, or gold with black penwork, or black with a red stroke; a few spaces for such initials have not been filled. In the text, headings and marks for antiphons in red; in the calendar, headings for months, dates, and important feasts also in red. Line-fillers: two oblique lines, blue or gold, with dots attached., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown calf. Paste-decorated edges. Rebacked. Spine stamped with gold leaves and the words "GETEY BOEK".
- 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 Rome
- Published / Created:
- circa 1400.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.193
- Container / Volume:
- (File)
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Two miniatures, on parchment, both fragments of a Book of Hours, depicting events in the Passion of Christ, both in color with gold and burnished gold. The first depicts the Flagellation of Christ within a stylized architectural frame. The second depicts the Carrying of the Cross in a stylized landscape which includes two other crosses erected against a gold diapered background
- Description:
- Attributed to the workshop of Jacquemart de Hesdin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jacquemart, de Hesdin, active 1380-1411. and Jesus Christ
- Subject (Topic):
- Passion, Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miniatures of the passion of Christ (fragments).