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This manuscript is an early fifteenth-century Book of Hours, written in Latin in the Netherlands. Many leaves are now missing, probably with illuminations, but several leaves with historiated initials and floral borders remain at major divisions. The text has an unusual two-column layout.
Support: Parchment; Extent: ii+122+iii; 148 x 103 mm bound to 150 x 110 mm; Foliation: Intermittent modern foliation in pencil, upper or lower right recto; Collation: Structure uncertain; leaves missing before fol. 1, after fols. 5, 6, 14, 15, 25, 29, 54, 83, 85, 105, 115
Two columns of twenty-two lines; frame-ruled in red ink with double upper and lower bounding lines; written area: 97 x 74 mm
Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata; responses, versicles, and antiphons written in smaller script
Twelve historiated initials and a one-column miniature of the Annunciation (fol. 64v); floral borders at major text divisions; one-line and two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing and gold initials with blue penwork flourishing alternating throughout, with simple repeating extensions along the full length of the left edge of the text column
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Netherlands
Circa 1410
Eighteenth-century vellum cover; "Heures du XIVe Siecle" written in ink on spine
Latin
William Hargrave Dawson (born 1878), of Titlington Hall, Northumberland; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
Netherlands
Circa 1410
Latin
William Hargrave Dawson
This manuscript is an early fifteenth-century Book of Hours, written in Latin in the Netherlands. Many leaves are now missing, probably with illuminations, but several leaves with historiated initials and floral borders remain at major divisions. The text has an unusual two-column layout.
Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata; responses, versicles, and antiphons written in smaller script
Twelve historiated initials and a one-column miniature of the Annunciation (fol. 64v); floral borders at major text divisions; one-line and two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing and gold initials with blue penwork flourishing alternating throughout, with simple repeating extensions along the full length of the left edge of the text column
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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