Accession number
MS S.6
Object title
Book of hours (MS S.6).
Created
Belgium, perhaps Bruges, ca. 1465.
Binding
19th-century dark brown blind-tooled morocco.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Description
251 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 100 x 70 mm.
Provenance
Arthur H. Raynolds (bookplate on inside front cover); E. Clark Stillman Collection.
Notes
Ms. book of hours, use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Belgium, perhaps Bruges, ca. 1465.
S.6 has the nickname "Sony Hours" because Stillman used to keep it in an old Sony portable radio case.
Decoration: 14 full-page miniatures with full illuminated borders, 14 facing full illuminated borders.
S.6 has the nickname "Sony Hours" because Stillman used to keep it in an old Sony portable radio case.
Decoration: 14 full-page miniatures with full illuminated borders, 14 facing full illuminated borders.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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