summary
Book of Hours, use of Rome
note (text)
This late fifteenth-century liturgical manuscript is a Book of Hours for the Use of Rome with a calendar for Flanders, Short Hours of the Holy Spirit and the Cross, a Mass of the Virgin, and the Hours of the Virgin. There are six full-page miniatures with blank versos, face pages with matching foliate borders, and illuminated opening initials.
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
125
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
80
justification : height (mm)
66
justification : width (mm)
43
note (deco)
6 full-page miniatures with full bordersred, blue, and gold decorated initials and line fillers throughout
binding
S. XIX diced and blind-tooled russia leather. Stamped in gold on spine: "MISSAL." Marble paper pastedowns.
origDate : proposed date
c.1460
note (history)
On the recto of fol. 1, the inscription "Petrus Ysermans horst toe desen boeck" [This book belongs to Peter Ysermans]. On fol. 14r, signatures of Petrus Ysermans and Jeronimus Maelens.
provenance
Petrus Ysermans and Jeronimus Maelens (17th century); W. J. Gilbert, St. Louis (his sale, Philadelphia, 7 June 1909); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia
ID Arkindex
503af182-de13-4f31-bf09-4a54b3d0f62c
HORAE_1200pxmin (1815 mss)
Philadelphia_Free_Library_of_Philadelphia_Lewis_E_100.tar.gz
Digitization-type
single page
note (temp)
http://telma.irht.cnrs.fr/outils/luxury-bound/manuscrit2941/