Accession number:
MS M.850
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
France or Belgium, 1425-1435.
Binding:
Rebound in 20th-century tan calf preserving back and spine of original 15th-century brown stamped calf, in black leather slip-case.
Credit:
Gift of Louise Boyd Townsend, 1959.
Description:
81 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 217 x 148 mm
Provenance:
Erased inscription on upper margin of fol. 1r; Gordon Boyd, gift of Louise Boyd Townsend, 1959.
Notes:
Ms. book of hours, use of Besançon (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in France (Franche-Comte) or Belgium, 1425-1435.
A calendar entry points to Geneva for use: October 8, Dedicatio ecclesie S. Petri Gebennensis, in red.
Decoration: 12 miniatures with border decoration.
Artist: a Gold Scrolls artist.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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