Book of hours. use of Orléans : manuscript, [ca. 1490]
- Title
- Book of hours. use of Orléans : manuscript, [ca. 1490]
Alternative Title: Book of hours - Creator / Contributor
- Catholic Church
- Place of Origin
- France
- Date
- 1490
- Language
- Latin
- Description
- Extent: [98] leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 19 cm.
print - Subjects
- Catholic Church
- Genre
- Books of hours-France-15th century.
Illuminations.
Manuscripts, Medieval-France-1450-1500.
Rules (layout features)
Gauffered edges. - Notes
- Written in a gothic bookhand, possibly in Rouen, and ruled for 15 lines, calendar for 15 lines with feasts in gold, blue and rose. Illuminations include 24 calendar medaillons, 14 large (including one later addition, f. 21v), 16 smaller miniatures, foliate borders and decorated initials.
Bound in 19th-cent. calf with metal clasps by Hagué, in imitation of a 15th-cent. style; with the arms of Anne de Montmorency, constable of France.
In a protective tray case, 21 cm.
MS Lat 253. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Also available in an electronic version. - Series
- Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
- Repository
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
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