- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1053
- Image Count:
- 421
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper.
- Description:
- Modern foliation includes flyleaves.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 757
- Image Count:
- 330
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (calfskin) of a collection of prayers, passion narratives and hymns.
- Description:
- Binding: Seventeenth century. Plain brown leather over pasteboard. The spine gold-tooled, with five raised bands. Paper pastedowns; red sprinkled edges., Headings in red. Heightening of the majuscules in yellow. 1-line plain versals alternately red and blue; 2-line plain initials and 4-line initials (plain or of the littera duplex type, but without penwork; 5-line on ff. 2r, 126v and 145r) in red and/or blue. Although the main prayers and hymns generally begin with a 4- or 5-line initial, the distribution of the various kinds of initials often seems at random., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Libraria (Textus Quadratus, approximately Oeser variant II), with a tendency to develop cadels on the top line, in some cases (f. 57v) featuring a human profile.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
- Subject (Topic):
- Hymns, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Passion narratives (Gospels)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prayer book