Book of Hours (DS16434) (Q68995)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Wellesley College (MS 27, https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000625704, in00000625704)
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Book of Hours (DS16434)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Wellesley College (MS 27, https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000625704, in00000625704)

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    Books of hours--Netherlands
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    Manuscripts, Dutch--Massachusetts--Wellesley
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    between 1450 and 1475
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    Extent: ii, 117, ii leaves : parchment ; 165 x 115 (93 x 61) mm
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    Title supplied by cataloger.
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    Collation: Parchment. 14+2, 22+3, 36+3, 46+1, 5-66, 74, 88, 94, 1010, 114, 128−1, 136+1, 14-156, 166+1, 17-186, 194; fol. 7, 8, 11, 13, 15, 23, 82, and 96 are singletons, apparently lacking one folio after fol. 76. Catchwords mostly trimmed away. Nineteenth- ; early-twentieth-century pencil foliation is incorrect but used here for reference (reaches 118 instead of 117)
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    Layout: 1 column, 17 lines. Bounding lines full-length, writing lines doubled and full length to inner margin at top and bottom, in purple plummet, prickings partially preserved in outer margin and for bounding lines.
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    Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand in brown ink. Red rubrics.
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    Decoration: Four 7-line initials in blue with white highlighting and salmon and gold infill on gold background with full border of scrolling acanthus in blue and gold with birds, flowers, and gold berries (fol. 8, 12, 16, and 83); twenty-five 4- to 5-line initials with full acanthus border (those for the votive prayers with outer or half-border only); 2-line gold initials throughout on...
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    Origin: Written in Flanders in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. Saec. XVIII inscription on rear flyleaf reads "No. 8595 ; Gen."
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    Miniaturist: Guillaume Vrelant (-1481).
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    Armorial ex-libris [bookplate inside front cover] of "Le Comte de Boutourlin" (Count Dmitri Petrovich Boutourlin, 1763-1829, librarian of the Russian Imperial Library); Catalogue de la bibliothèque de Son Exc. M. Le Comte D. Boutourlin, Florence, 1831, p. 17, no. 155; sale of the Boutourlin Library [part 2], Paris, Maison Silvestre, 16 November 1840, lot 65. W.E. Bools, Esq., of Enderby House...
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    14 February 2025
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    14 February 2025
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