Book of hours

Description

Title: Book of hours
Contributor: Augustinians
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: Italy,
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours. With prayers in Italian. Probably made for a female member of the Augustinian order.
Description: Binding: Original Italian brown cloth over wooden boards, sewn onto three double leather thongs; the cloth is embroidered with silver thread to a design of stars, squares and maltese crosses. Gilt and gauffered edges.
Headings in red. 1-line versals alternately in red and blue; 2-line flourished initials with marginal extensions alternately in red and blue, the penwork in the contrasting colour (the normal type of initials throughout the manuscript); 3-line flourished KL ligatures in art. 1; 5-line litterae duplices or initials in the style of litterae duplices with developed penwork at the opening of the various Hours in art. 2; 6-line ditto in art. 3; a 4-line flourished initial at the opening of the Mass of the Virgin in art. 5. All initials are half inset.
Script: Copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda).
Extent: ff. i + 263 + i : parchment ; 105 x 75 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian
Latin

Format: text
Genre: Decorated initials
Manuscripts
Rubrics
Material: parchment
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Augustinians
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic): Books of hours
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

Access: Public
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Citation: Book of Hours. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Orbis Record: 9869836
Object ID (OID): 10958725
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/MS806.pdf