Single leaf from a 15th-century book of hours : in Latin

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Title:
Single leaf from a 15th-century book of hours : in Latin
Title (uniform):
Book of hours
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Sandbergs Bokhandel, Stockholm
Date:
[1475–1499]
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Books of hours
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
France > Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (region) > Vienne
Extent:
1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 186 x 124 (110 x 70) mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q858
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
[Northern France (Vienne?)]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
[Recto] Dilexi quoniam exaudiet.../ [Verso] ...Placebo domino in regione vivorum [Psalm 114:1-9]/ ant. Requiem eternam doma eis.../...perpetua luceat eis.
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Office of the Dead, Matins.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in northern France in the late 15th century, possibly for the use of Vienne; the antiphon "Requiem eternam dona," when used as the first antiphon of Matins, suggests that use.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Sandbergs Bokhandel, Stockholm.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 221
Notes (object):
Script: Written in a bâtarde script in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 1 column, 19 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light red ink.
Decoration: 1-line versals mid-line throughout in gold on red or blue with gold filigree highlighting; 4-line Psalm initial on recto in blue with white on gold background, floriate infill; 1/4 floriate border, outer margin verso, in gold ink and colors on blue; 1/2-page miniature on recto, Job on the dungheap: Job sits on the dungheap at right, wearing only a draped loincloth, with three nobly-dressed friends scolding him from the left and a château in the background.
Binding: Housed in a thick board folder with cutout mylar window, in an oversize folder.
Identifier:
06_01_016274-06_01_016275
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 188
BPL MS 1614 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999087663785