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Add MS 71118 A-F
- Record Id:
- 032-003378467
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003378467
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100046621789.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 71118 A-F
- Title:
- Six leaves from a Book of Hours
- Scope & Content:
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Contents: Six leaves from a Book of Hours, comprising two full-page miniatures (A and B rectos) and four folios with text (C-F).
Decoration:
2 full page framed miniatures in colours on gold grounds (A and B recto). 4 historiated initials and full borders with foliate and geometric decoration in rose and blue with gold (C, D, E and F rectos). Initials in gold with pen-flourishing in purple. Small initials in gold or blue with penwork decoration in purple or red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003378467", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 71118 A-F: Six leaves from a Book of Hours" },{ "id" : "040-001965059", "parent" : "032-003378467", "text" : "Add MS 71118 A: Leaf from a Book of Hours, St Catherine" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-001965060", "parent" : "032-003378467", "text" : "Add MS 71118 B: Leaf from a Book of Hours, St Margaret" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-001965061", "parent" : "032-003378467", "text" : "Add MS 71118 C: Leaf from a Book of Hours, with part of the Office of Matins" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-001965062", "parent" : "032-003378467", "text" : "Add MS 71118 D: Leaf from a Book of Hours with part of the Office of Lauds" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-001965063", "parent" : "032-003378467", "text" : "Add MS 71118 E: Leaf from a Book of Hours with part of the Office of the Dead" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-001965064", "parent" : "032-003378467", "text" : "Add MS 71118 F: Leaf from a Book of Hours with a prayer for the Dead and the beginning of Psalm 118" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003378467
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 71118 A : Leaf from a Book of Hours, St Catherine
Add MS 71118 B : Leaf from a Book of Hours, St Margaret
Add MS 71118 C : Leaf from a Book of Hours, with part of the Office of Matins
Add MS 71118 D : Leaf from a Book of Hours with part of the Office of Lauds
Add MS 71118 E : Leaf from a Book of Hours with part of the Office of the Dead
Add MS 71118 F : Leaf from a Book of Hours with a prayer for the Dead and the beginning of Psalm 118
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- 032-003378467
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 71118 A-F
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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6 parchment folios, unbound
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 215 x 145mm (text space 160 x 110mm).
Foliation: 6 parchment folios in window mounts foliated as A-F.
Binding: 6 framed cuttings kept together in a box.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Miss Violeta Harris (b.1898, d.1989): apparently purchased by her soon after World War II through her brother, Tomás Harris, managing director of the Spanish Art Gallery in London. Accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of inheritance tax from the estates of Miss Violeta Harris and her sister, Mrs Conchita Wolff, and allocated to the British Library through the National Art-Collections Fund in 1992.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
- Janet Backhouse, 'Early Renaissance Miniatures: Illuminations from the Collection of Violeta Harris', National Art-Collections Fund Annual Review 1992 (London: The Fund, 1993), pp. 18-22 (pp. 18, 20-21, fig).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)