Book of Hours
Accession number:
MS S.6
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Belgium, perhaps Bruges, ca. 1465.
Binding:
19th-century dark brown blind-tooled morocco.
Credit:
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Description:
251 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 100 x 70 mm.
Provenance:
Arthur H. Raynolds (bookplate on inside front cover); E. Clark Stillman Collection.
Notes:
Ms. book of hours, use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Belgium, perhaps Bruges, ca. 1465.
S.6 has the nickname "Sony Hours" because Stillman used to keep it in an old Sony portable radio case.
Decoration: 14 full-page miniatures with full illuminated borders, 14 facing full illuminated borders.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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