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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1470]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 101
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from an illuminated Book of Hours. It contains the opening of the Commendation of Souls, a series of psalms often found after the Office of the Dead in English or English-marketed books of hours.
- Description:
- Decoration: historiated initial "B" with a miniature of two souls borne to heaven by two angels, gilt; wide decorated border of blue and green acanthus with flowers and fruits, gilt., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column of 17 lines., and Script: gothic.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Bruges (Belgium)
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours--Early works to 1800., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--Belgium--Bruges--15th century., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours (fragment)
- Creator:
- Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. Hours
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1390-1420
- Call Number:
- Osborn a44
- Image Count:
- 483
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The manuscript contains a book of hours, use of Sarum (ff. 1-138v), and a Missal (ff. 139r-236v). It was produced in England, in liturgical Gothic bookhand on vellum, in two phases. The first section, consisting of quires 1 and 3-18 (ff. 1-6, 17-83, and 86-137), was produced around 1390, perhaps in London. Around 1420 the manuscript was augmented with a second section, consisting of quires 2 and 19-31 (ff. 7-16, 84-85, and 138-236).
- Alternative Title:
- Book of Hours
- Description:
- Binding: early nineteenth-century English calf over carved wooden boards, blind-stamped and gilt, rebacked with spine laid on; gilt edges with traces of painted landscape., Decoration includes thirty-two historiated initials and three half-page miniatures (f.11v, the martyrdom of St. Elmo (St. Erasmus); 109v, Christ at the Tomb, surrounded by the instruments of His passion; f. 118r, the Crucifixion, with the Virgin and St. John)., Modern paper binder's blanks (2 l.) at end not digitized., Peyton coat of arms gilt on covers., and Seventeenth-century coat of arms on flyleaf and on f. 139r (quarterly, 1 and 4, azure a castle or, 2 and 3, gules 2 foxes or).
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy and ritual--Hours, Catholic Church--Liturgy and ritual--Missal, and Peyton family--Coat of arms
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sarum Rite
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours and missal, [circa 1390-1420]