(Q21156)

Pencil notes on front pastedown: "Hours for Paris use, ca. 1470, written for use by a man," and "over 380 in./280 pages of illuminated letters/8 full-page miniatures/10 [full-page] borders"; stamped "Gift of Simon Gratz, ESQ., November 1925" in inner margin of fol. 2r; faint pencil notes on upper pastedown and facing flyleaf read "lhupin" (?)

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Binding: Twentieth-century brown Morocco over wooden boards; gilt-tooled decoration; vellum pastedowns and flyleaves; gilt edges

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Layout: One column of fifteen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 101 x 64 mm

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Script: Gothic--textualis

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Decoration: Eight large miniatures, some of which appear to be retouched, with full borders: 13r, Saint John on Patmos; 26r, Annunciation; 82r, King David in Prayer; 100r, Crucifixion; 104r, Pentecost; 107v, Burial; 156r, Virgin and Child with Angels; 162v, The Trinity; red, blue, and gold decorated initials throughout and line filler throughout; folio 104 was inserted to replace a missing or...

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Related resource: Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 451, no. 19.

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Provenance: Simon Gratz, presented by him to the Free Library in 1925

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acknowledgements

Contributor: Diane Biunno

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Cataloger: Nicholas Herman

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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources

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date added

4 December 2023