- Title
- Book of hours ; use of Rome : manuscript, [ca. 1485]
- Catholic Church, creator
Master of the Burgundian Prelates, ill.
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874, former owner. - 1485
- France
- [132] leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 22 cm.
- Latin
- Books of hours-France-15th century.
Illuminations.
Manuscripts, Medieval-France-1450-1500.
Rules (layout features)
Hairside.
Pricking (parchment marking)
Scribal corrections.
Parchment repairs. - Books and documents
- Catholic Church--Liturgy
- Written in a gothic bookhand, ruled for 16 lines, calendar for 17 lines, with feasts in gold and alternating in blue and red. Two full-page illuminations, including a 16th-cent. addition, illustrating a noble lady presented to the Virgin and Child by St. Bernard (f. 2r), 8 large and 14 small miniatures attributed to the Master of the Burgundian Prelates, with decorated initials, and foliate and historiated borders throughout.
Includes a full-page colored drawing representing the owner's (Bitault family?) genealogy by means of a tree with coats-of arms hanging along the branches (f. 131v).
Bound in19th-cent. black morocco with silver clasps.
In a protective tray case, 25 cm.
Also available in an electronic version. - MS Lat 249. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
- 990094027520203941
- Title
- Book of hours ; use of Rome : manuscript, [ca. 1485]
- Creator / Contributor
- Catholic Church, creator
Master of the Burgundian Prelates, ill.
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874, former owner. - Date
- 1485
- Place of Origin
- France
- Extent
- [132] leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 22 cm.
- Language
- Latin
- Genre
- Books of hours-France-15th century.
Illuminations.
Manuscripts, Medieval-France-1450-1500.
Rules (layout features)
Hairside.
Pricking (parchment marking)
Scribal corrections.
Parchment repairs. - Digital Format
- Books and documents
- Subjects
- Catholic Church--Liturgy
- Notes
- Written in a gothic bookhand, ruled for 16 lines, calendar for 17 lines, with feasts in gold and alternating in blue and red. Two full-page illuminations, including a 16th-cent. addition, illustrating a noble lady presented to the Virgin and Child by St. Bernard (f. 2r), 8 large and 14 small miniatures attributed to the Master of the Burgundian Prelates, with decorated initials, and foliate and historiated borders throughout.
Includes a full-page colored drawing representing the owner's (Bitault family?) genealogy by means of a tree with coats-of arms hanging along the branches (f. 131v).
Bound in19th-cent. black morocco with silver clasps.
In a protective tray case, 25 cm.
Also available in an electronic version. - Cite As
- MS Lat 249. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Series
- Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
- Repository
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
- Record ID
- 990094027520203941
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