Book of hours manuscript, [ca. 1500]
- Title
- Book of hours manuscript, [ca. 1500]
Alternative Title: Book of hours - Creator / Contributor
- Catholic Church
- Place of Origin
- Belgium
- Date
- 1500
- Language
- Latin
- Description
- Extent: 1 leaf : vellum ; 17 cm., mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
print - Abstract
- A single leaf containing the prayer beginning "Obsecro te".
- Genre
- Manuscripts, Medieval-Belgium-1450-1500.
Manuscripts, Renaissance-Belgium-1500-1550.
Rules (layout features) - Notes
- Written in an angular gothic book hand, 17 lines to the page, within a Flemish-style illusionistic border of fruit, flowers, birds and insects on a gold painted ground.
On the recto is a 7-line miniature of the deposition from the cross in tempera, colored inks and gold paint.
Mounted: the verso is not visible.
MS Typ 1005. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
The Houghton Library accession number 90M-16 and Fogg Art Museum accession number 1943.1869 should no longer be used to refer to this item.
Also available in an electronic version. - Series
- Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
- Repository
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
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- This item appears in
- Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
- More item details
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