Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours for the use of a convent.
Description:
Binding: Seventeenth century. Damaged brownish pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, the covers blind-tooled with frames of fillets and rolls; the central rectangle on the front cover, otherwise free, is decorated with a large oval stamp, heavily worn but probably picturing the Virgin in the Sun. Spine with three raised bands. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear cover. Marks of a chain attachment at the bottom of the rear cover. Red edges., Headings and rubrics in red. Heightening of majuscules in red. 1-line red versals; 2-line plain initials (sometimes slightly decorated) in red. Intricate large flourished cadels in black filled with red in the texts accompanying musical notation. Art. 4 opens with a 6-line littera duplex in red and brownish red with red penwork. Guide letters for all initials. On f. 29v full-page picture of the crowned Virgin and Child, Mary presenting a flower to the Child, on a flowery pink background in a green and red rectangular frame., On some pages the ink is very faded., and Script: Copied mainly by one hand writing Northern Textualis Formata in two sizes with Central European features. A second less formal hand copied ff. 29r, lines 11-18 and 30r-31v, i.e. the beginning of art. 2. Musical notation in Nota Quadrata.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monasticism and religious orders
Geishū Itsukushima zue, Itsuku-shima dzu-ye, Itsukushimazue, 厳島図会, and 嚴島圖會.
Description:
"Description of Itsukushima (Miyajima)." (K. Asakawa. "Gifts of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., "Itsukushima Jinko zōban.", "Zōhanshu, Hiroshima Ginzan-chō Miyazaki Kojūrō"--Colophon., "巌島神庫藏版.", "藏版主・廣島銀山町宮崎小十郎"--Colophon., 507.5-chō, in a case., On double leaves, East Asian binding (fukurotoji)., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Bf5.
Publisher:
Kawachiya Gisuke,, Taruya Sōzaemon, and Yonamiya Ihē
Subject (Geographic):
Itsukushima Jinja (Miyajima-cho, Japan)--Description and travel, Miyajima-chō (Japan)--Description and travel, Miyajima-chō (Japan)--Pictorial works, 宮島町 (Japan)--Description and travel, and 宮島町 (Japan)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Itsukushima Jinja (Hatsukaichi-shi, Japan) and Itsukushima Jinja (Hatsukaichi-shi, Japan)--Pictorial works