Detail View: Medieval Document Collection: Leaf from a Book of Hours

Identifier: 
exwsms171_bk
Manuscript Identifier: 
MS 171
Title: 
Leaf from a Book of Hours
Alternative Title: 
MS 171
Incipit: 
[rubric] memorie die anthone antiphona
Origin Date: 
between 1400 and 1450
Origin Location: 
France
Description: 
Leaf from a Book of Hours with text opening to devotional prayers petitioning for Saint Anthony's intercession.
Provenance: 
Purchased from Boyd Mackus of the Mackus Company, Springfield, Illinois, by Western Michigan University Special Collections, (M3404E).
Explicit: 
et corporis sani
Extent: 
1 leaf
Subject: 
Anthony, of Padua, Saint, 1195-1231--Prayers and devotions
Subject: 
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
Subject: 
Books of hours--Texts
Subject: 
Prayer books--Early works to 1800
Subject: 
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France
Subject: 
Manuscripts, Medieval--Michigan--Kalamazoo
Subject: 
decorated initials
Subject: 
Devotional literature
Subject: 
detached leaves
Language: 
lat
Dimensions: 
181 x 130 mm (framed 255 x 205 mm)
Material: 
parchment
Binding: 
Excised from a larger manuscript. Housed in a mat frame with dealer's prospectus on back of the mat frame.
Decoration Description: 
1 column of 15 lines ruled in red ink. 1-line illuminated initial on a ground of blue with a rinceaux design in blue and red extending into the margin. Rubricated in red. 1-line initials alternating red and blue with contrasting pen flourishes in red or blue. On recto, text of the first line rubric has faded completely. Large initial "D" on recto opens a prayer. Prickings in the inner margin.
Description of Hands: 
Wwritten in Northern Textualis Gothic script. Change of hands on verso.
Is Part Of: 
Medieval Document Collection
Is Part Of: 
Manuscript 171, Western Michigan University Special Collections
Publisher: 
Western Michigan University
Date-Issued: 
2019
Type: 
Text
Format: 
image/jp2
Access Rights: 
This leaf is in the public domain. Western Michigan University holds the right to the image and reproduction. The images that are provided here are for non-profit, educational use only. For all other uses please contact Special Collections, Western Michigan University.
Rights Statement: 
No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/