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:
Leo S. Olschki (Firm)
Date:
[ca. 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
Extent:
1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 257 x 175 (153 x 105) mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v63p
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
[France]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
Ant. Placebo. Psalmus/ Dilexi quoniam exaudiet ... / ... meos a lacrimus pedes ... (Psalm 114:1-8) Opening of the Office of the Dead.
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in France at the end of the fifteenth century, from the same manuscript as MS pb. Med. 145.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Purchased in 1954 from Olschki.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 218
Notes (object):
Layout: Single column, 18 lines. Bounding and writing lines in red ink, bounding lines full-length.
Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Verse initials in gold on red or blue with gilt filigree infill; line fillers geometric in similar scheme; on verso, outer border of scrolling acanthus with small gold dots and a gold band with floriated decoration, a snail-like grotesque in the center; on the recto, three-quarter-page illustration of Job at prayer on the dungheap (at left), a crowd of nobly-dressed friends at the right, a towering city in the near and far background, the image and text within a trompe-l'oeuil architectural frame; an angel's head in the center of the lintel, pearls along the sides of the frame, and, in the bas-de-page, Job with Satan (as a dragon).
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Identifier:
06_01_016097-06_01_016098
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 157
MS 1582 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999087033922