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Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 1r-1v
- Record Id:
- 041-001103772
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001660.0x000051
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 1r-1v
- Title:
- Leaf of a Book of Hours
- Scope & Content:
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Miniature of the Annunciation attributed to the Master of the Harvard Hannibal (a Parisian artist active in the early 15th century named after Cambridge (MA), Harvard College Library, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 32), with a gold frame and foliate borders (f. 1r); lines from the Te Deum and the Gradual for the Feast of the Blessed Virgin, incipit: '[benedi]camus nomen tuum domine' and beneath 'Ad laudes' (f. 1v).
The leaf was previously inserted the other way round with the text-page (the present verso) preceding the illumination (now the recto). The offset of the miniature on f. 3r shows that the illumination was originally facing this page.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103771
041-001103772 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI : Ancrene Riwle; songs and prayers; a leaf from a Book of Hours
Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 1r-1v : Leaf of a Book of Hours - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1199]/040-001103771[0001]/041-001103772
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 folio, bound together in a single volume with the remainder of this manuscript.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Cleopatra_c_vi (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1410
- End Date:
- 1425
- Date Range:
- c 1415-c 1420
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 205 × 150 mm (text space: 85 × 70 mm)
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France (Paris).
- Publications:
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Millard Meiss, with the assistance of Sharon Off Dunlap Smith and Elizabeth Home Beatson, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and their Contemporaries (New York: Braziller, 1974), pp. 390-92 [discussion on the Master of the Harvard Hannibal, with a list of associated manuscripts].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)