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Image Number: 
Bookreader Latin MS 117
Reference Number: 
Latin MS 117
Parent Work Title: 
Psalter and Horae
Translated Parent Work Title: 
Psalter and Book of Hours
Date Created: 
13th century [late]
Description: 
Psalter and Horae, thirteenth Latin manuscript bound old wooden boards, with fragments of dark blue velvet. Very finely written, in Gothic hand, 18 lines to a page. Borders decorated with various figures grotesques, animals and beasts. Historiated and illuminated initials. Decorative line fillings (bouts de ligne), with grotesques or beasts. Red rubrication.
Language Code: 
lat-FR
Language: 
Latin
Subject: 
Religion
Subject: 
Christianity
Subject: 
Books of hours
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Technique Used: 
Illumination (image-making process)
Technique Used: 
Painting (image-making)
Medium: 
Ink
Medium: 
Paint
Support: 
Vellum
Support: 
Velvet
Support: 
Wood
Creation Site: 
France
Item Height: 
194 mm
Item Width: 
142 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Bibliotheca Bollandiana Bruxellensis
Provenance: 
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
References: 
James, M.R., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (Munich, 1980)
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2018-08-09
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Academic Project Lead: 
David Matthews
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2018-08
Educational Notes: 
MA Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB