Script: Written in gothic bookhand.

Two half-page miniatures, f. 30v and f. 90r, in arched frames, pink or blue and gold, each with a 4-line initial, f. 30v blue with white highlights against an irregular brown ground with gold flowers, f. 90r pink with curling acanthus in gold, against a brown and blue ground with green and white acanthus. Both miniatures with full acanthus and floral borders, red, blue, pink, green, purple and gold, with grapes and grotesques and a three-quarter bar, pink, blue and gold. Two historiated initials (later additions?), f. 19v and f. 20r, both black with gold curling acanthus on a black and/or pink ground with gold filigree and three-quarter bar border, pink, blue and gold, with a full border of flowers and hair-spray, grapes and birds, and red, blue, pink and green acanthus in corners. 2-line initials, gold, filled with blue or pink on pink or blue grounds with white highlights, each with floral and hair-spray border as above, versos only, red bounding lines. 1-line initials and KL monograms as 2-line initials, important feasts and rubrics in red. Ff. 21v-25v, initials, 5- to 2-line, very crude, black on pink grounds with yellow floral filigree, edged thickly in black.

Binding: Nineteenth century. Black, hard-grained goatskin, gold-tooled. Bound by H. M. Coombs and Co. Gilt edges.

In Latin.

Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.

Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 437.

Hours, Use of Rome ("Vanderbilt Missal"). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.