Book of Hours (Office of the Dead) (fragment).

Description

Title: Book of Hours (Office of the Dead) (fragment).
Published / Created: [14--].
Publication Place: France or Low Countries
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of a book of hours (Office of the Dead).
Description: In Latin.
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.
Provenance: Gift of Henrietta C. Bartlett in 1954. The fragment is not listed in De Ricci.
Extent: ff. 1 : 169 x 125 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Prayers and devotions
Books of hours
Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Belgium 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Netherlands 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Books of hours
Subjects: Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Books of hours
France > 15th century
Belgium > 15th century
Netherlands > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Book of Hours (Office of the Dead). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.