Book of Hours

Accession number: 
MS M.850
Title: 
Book of Hours
Created: 
France or Belgium, 1425-1435.
Binding: 
Rebound in 20th-century tan calf preserving back and spine of original 15th-century brown stamped calf, in black leather slip-case.
Credit: 
Gift of Louise Boyd Townsend, 1959.
Description: 
81 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 217 x 148 mm
Provenance: 
Erased inscription on upper margin of fol. 1r; Gordon Boyd, gift of Louise Boyd Townsend, 1959.
Notes: 

Ms. book of hours, use of Besançon (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in France (Franche-Comte) or Belgium, 1425-1435.
A calendar entry points to Geneva for use: October 8, Dedicatio ecclesie S. Petri Gebennensis, in red.
Decoration: 12 miniatures with border decoration.
Artist: a Gold Scrolls artist.

Script: 
textura
Language: 
Latin
Century: 
Classification: