Browse the Western Manuscript Collection: B (continued)
Book of Hours
One leaf, 21 cm x 14 cm.
Ms. 002254
Single leaf of a Franco-Flemish book of hours, ca. 1440-1455. The verso of the leaf contains a full-page illumination of Pentecost.
Book of Hours
One leaf, 19 cm x 13 cm.
Ms. 002260
Calendar page for November from a fifteenth-century French book of hours. The text is in an angular gothic hand with gold embellished capitals and an ivy spray border. Gift of W.E. Thomas.
Book of Hours
One leaf, 19 cm x 14 cm.
Ms. 002263
Written in France, ca. 1325, with Latin texts and French rubrics, in an angular gothic hand. The leaf contains one large capital embellished with gold and one early double-ivy stem border. Gift of W.E. Thomas.
Book of Hours
One leaf, 10 cm x 8 cm.
Ms. 002264
Single leaf of an Italian book of hours, ca. 1450. Written in a fine Gothic hand, the leaf contains one large capital with red and blue penwork decoration. Gift of W.E. Thomas.
Book of Hours
One leaf, 16 cm x 11 cm.
Ms. 002265
Single leaf of a French book of hours, ca. 1450. Written in French in a gothic hand, the text is the calendar for the month of May. Gift of W.E. Thomas.
Book of Hours
One leaf, 19 cm x 14 cm.
Ms. 002266
Single leaf of a book of hours, executed in Paris, ca. 1400-1415, in a fine Gothic hand. It contains a miniature of Saint Luke with his symbols.
Book of Hours
Two leaves, 13 cm x 9 cm.
Ms. 002267
Two leaves of a sixteenth-century Flemish book of hours written in a gothic bastarda hand. The initials are in gold on a red or blue ground with borders similar to those of the Bruges-Ghent school of illumination.; Gift of Harold Goddard Rugg.
Book of Hours
Two leaves, 18 cm x 12 cm.
Ms. 002268
Conjoint leaves of a Franco-Flemish book of hours, ca. 1500-1525. Written in a gothic bastarda hand, the leaves contain three historiated initials, four gold initials on red and blue ground.
Book of Hours
One leaf, 18 cm x 12 cm.
Ms. 002269
Single leaf of a French book of hours, written ca. 1520 in a late gothic hand. The leaf is decorated with blue and red initials and line fillers embellished in gold. There is one large historiated initial and a floral border. Gift of W. E. Thomas.
Book of Hours
One leaf, 18 cm x 13 cm.
Ms. 002270
Single leaf of an English book of hours, ca. 1350, for the use of Canterbury. In a fine gothic hand with rubrics, the text is decorated with three capitals with ivy decorations and has extensive use of gold. Gift of W.E. Thomas.