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Book of Hours (Office of the Dead) (fragment)
Title
Book of Hours (Office of the Dead) (fragment).
Created
France or Low Countries, [14--].
Physical Description
ff. 1 : parchment ; 169 x 125 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: written in two sizes of gothic script (littera textualis formata), with a larger script for the canticle and Psalm and a smaller script for the chants.
Decoration: the 2-line initial at the beginning of the Psalm and the 1-line initials at the beginning of Psalm verses are in gold on a ground that alternates between red with blue penwork and blue with white penwork; the interior of letters on the red ground are filled with blue and white penwork, and the interiors of those on blue ground are filled with red and blue penwork; 1-line initials at the beginning of chants are in brown; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated rarely with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Robert G. Babcock, Lisa Fagin Davis, and Philip G. Rusche.
Provenance
Gift of Henrietta C. Bartlett in 1954. The fragment is not listed in De Ricci.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a book of hours (Office of the Dead).
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 27, 2016
References
Book of Hours (Office of the Dead). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Book of Hours (Office of the Dead). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Books of hours.
Manuscripts, Medieval - France - 15th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - Belgium - 15th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - Netherlands - 15th century.
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