Book of hours : manuscript, [ca. 1510]
- Title
- Book of hours : manuscript, [ca. 1510]
Alternative Title: Book of hours - Creator / Contributor
- Catholic Church
- Place of Origin
- France
- Date
- 1510
- Language
- Latin
- Description
- Extent: 1 leaf : vellum ; 18 cm., mounted to 34 x 26 cm.
print - Abstract
- A single leaf containing the beginning of the Gospel of John, beginning on the recto below a miniature showing John on Patmos, all within an architectural border in classical style.
- Genre
- Manuscripts, Renaissance-France-1500-1550.
Rules (layout features) - Notes
- The text is written in a humanistic roman hand in brown ink, the rubric "Initium sancti euangelii secundum iohannem Gloria tibi domine" in gold ink. The text "In principio..." begins with an illuminated initial "I".
The miniature and border are drawn in tempera, colored inks and gold ink.
MS Typ 1008. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
The Houghton Library accession number 90M-16 and former Fogg Art Museum accession number 1955.62 should no longer be used in referring 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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