summary
Book of Hours, use of Utrecht
note (text)
This manuscript is an early fifteenth-century Book of Hours, written in Latin in the Netherlands. Many leaves are now missing, probably with illuminations, but several leaves with historiated initials and floral borders remain at major divisions. The text has an unusual two-column layout.
extent
121 ff. (CCLL)ii+122+iii
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
148
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
102
justification : height (mm)
97
justification : width (mm)
74
note (deco)
12 historiated initials and one column miniaturedecorated initials and floriated borders throughout
binding
S. XVIII vellum cover. "Heures du XIVe Siecle" written in ink on spine
origDate : proposed date
Circa 1410
note (history)
Dawson's armorial bookplate on inside of front cover wit the motto motto: favente deo, his name has been erased. Lewis's bookplate in the recto of the first end sheet. "Fr. S. N. kat 51" written in pencil on inside of back cover along with "500 m".
provenance
William Hargrave Dawson (b. 1878), of Titlington Hall, Northumberland; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia
ID Arkindex
f9948d4e-d11a-4f8b-b8ff-14717310007e
HORAE_1200pxmin (1815 mss)
Philadelphia_Free_Library_of_Philadelphia_Lewis_E_88.tar.gz
Digitization-type
single page
