Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 1005

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Harvard University Library
Library
Houghton Library, Harvard University
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  • MS Typ 1005
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Date
  • 1500
Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Book of hours
  • Book of hours manuscript, [ca. 1500]
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Description
  • Physical Description:
    1 leaf : vellum ; 17 cm., mounted to 37 x 27 cm.

    Summary:
    A single leaf containing the prayer beginning "Obsecro te".

    Notes:
    Written in an angular gothic book hand, 17 lines to the page, within a Flemish-style illusionistic border of fruit, flowers, birds and insects on a gold painted ground.
    On the recto is a 7-line miniature of the deposition from the cross in tempera, colored inks and gold paint.
    Mounted: the verso is not visible.
    MS Typ 1005. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
    The Houghton Library accession number 90M-16 and Fogg Art Museum accession number 1943.1869 should no longer be used to refer to this item.

    Form / Genre:
    Manuscripts, Medieval-Belgium-1450-1500.
    Manuscripts, Renaissance-Belgium-1500-1550.

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