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Breviary : manuscript, 1465

Title
Breviary : manuscript, 1465

Alternative Title: Breviary (Franciscan)
Creator / Contributor
Catholic Church
Place of Origin
Italy
Date
1465
Language
Latin
Description
Extent: 442 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 16 cm.
print
Subjects
Catholic Church
Genre
Breviaries.
Illuminations.
Manuscripts, Renaissance-Italy-1450-1500.
Rules (layout features)
Hairside.
Cut manuscripts (partial works)
Texts
Notes
Written in 1465 (colophon, f. 427) in Italy, possibly in Florence, in a southern gothic bookhand, with later textual additions in the later 15th cent.; with 2 historiated initials, 1 floral border of acanthus spirals and 15 decorated initials. Some initials are excised.
In a 15th-cent. Italian leather binding over original wooden boards, with blind stamping.
In a tray case, 18 cm.
MS Lat 171. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2010. (Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library). Copy digitized: Houghton Library: MS Lat 171
Series
Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Repository
Houghton Library, Harvard University

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