Book of Hours, Use of Le Mans ("Leighton Hours") (DS16525) (Q69268)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Bryn Mawr College (MS 23, MS 23, https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS23.html)
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| English | Book of Hours, Use of Le Mans ("Leighton Hours") (DS16525) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Bryn Mawr College (MS 23, MS 23, https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS23.html) |
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14 February 2025
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Book of Hours, Use of Le Mans ("Leighton Hours")
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Leighton, Gertrude
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Missing leaves
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1400-1499
15. century
1400Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: i+85+ii; 186 x 128 mm bound to 195 x 141 mm; parchment
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Stubs where pages with miniatures and decorations excised
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Binding: Seventeenth-century leather, blind-tooled front and back, gold-tooled fleur-de-lis in four corners and gold-tooled medallion in center
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Layout: Seventeen lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical bounding lines and double upper and single lower horizontal bounding lines, all full across; remains of prickings on some leaves; written area: 110 x 75 mm
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Script: Gothic -- textualis
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Decoration: Larger illuminations and initials excised; two-line and one-line illuminated initials on a black-framed magenta and blue ground with white penline decoration, line fillers and, in the calendar, KL monograms in same style throughout; rubrication in red
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Provenance: Written in France in the fifteenth century; provenance uncertain; three genealogical entries in calendar in different hands below the text; on fol. 4r: "le neuviesme avril mil sept cent un jay espouse ma femme Marie Rose de Lys fille et unique heriteuse de messire sebastien de Lys comte de Beause et de dame jeane de poysment contrat de mariage est raporte de jaunier notaire Royal a...
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8 June 2026
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