Browse the Western Manuscript Collection: B (continued)
Book of Hours
145 leaves, 17 cm x 11 cm.
Ms. Codex 001597
French book of hours for the use of Paris, ca. 1395-1415. The text is in a bastard hand with the calendar in French. The codex contains a fine miniature of the Annunciation.
Book of Hours
107 leaves, 21 cm x 13 cm.
Ms. Codex 001598
Written in a gothic hand in France, ca. 1490-1500, the text contains eleven full-page miniatures, fifteen smaller miniatures, and numerous initials and line fillers in blue, red, or gold. The modern binding is by Zahnsdorf.
Book of Hours
220 leaves, 11 cm x 8 cm.
Ms. Codex 001910
Written in a gothic hand, probably in Paris, ca. 1470-1489, the text contains a series of fine initials and decorated borders. Several leaves at the end of the volume are lacking.;
Book of Hours
222 leaves, 20 cm x 13 cm.
Ms. Codex 001918
Book of hours written in France, ca. 1450-1475. The codex contains eight illuminated leaves, and eight large initials. The style of the miniatures resembles that of the School of Tours. The calendar is lacking.
Book of Hours
163 leaves, 9 cm.
Ms. Codex 001919
Book of hours of the fifteenth century for the use of Paris. Written in a gothic script with seven illuminations. The calendar is in French.
Book of Hours
248 leaves, 9 cm x 6 cm.
Ms. Codex 001927
Book of hours executed in France in the fifteenth century. It contains seven illuminations, fifteen decorated borders, and capitals in gold and colors throughout.
Book of Hours
Two leaves, 17 cm x 12 cm.
Ms. 001944
Conjugate leaves of a northern French book of hours of the fifteenth century. The leaves contain initials in gold with red and blue highlighting, line fillers, and borders of flowers, leaves, and fruit.
Book of Hours
98 leaves, 19 cm x 14 cm.
Ms. Codex 001965
Book of Hours (incomplete), written in the second quarter of the fifteenth century in Paris, containing the text of the Psalms, one large miniature, and full border decoration throughout the text.
Book of Hours
90 leaves, 15 cm x 10 cm.
Ms. Codex 001990
French book of hours in a gothic hand, ca. 1385. Includes finely crafted initials and line fillers. Several leaves are missing and the end papers contain a seventeenth-century French prayer.
Book of Hours
148 leaves, 9 cm x 6 cm.
Ms. Codex 002073
This text is written in a neat Italian humanist script from the last decade of the fifteenth century. The codex contains illuminated borders and initials with one historiated initial.
Book of Hours
Two leaves, 16 cm x 11 cm.
Codex 002253
Bifolium of a Franco-Flemish book of hours, ca. 1330-1340, containing Lauds and Compline from the Hours of the Virgin. Decorated with historiated gold leaf initials and grotesques in tempera.