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BRMS 15

Title

Subject

Catholic Prayers and Devotions - Books of Hours

Description

A modest Book of Hours written in gothic batarde script in brown, red, and blue ink with numerous French rubrics, this manuscript includes four full-page miniatures. Ten additional pages feature large illuminated initials and elaborate borders decorated with colored flowers on liquid gold grounds. This decorative style is similar to a type of French Books of Hours that had widespread popularity at the end of the fifteenth century.

Source

BRMS 15. Book of Hours. Use of Troyes (?). Northern France, ca. 1480. Illuminated manuscript on vellum.

Publisher

Bridwell Library Special Collections

Date

Rights

Please cite Bridwell Library Special Collections, SMU, as the source of this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained by contacting Special Collections (bridsc@smu.edu).

Relation

BookofHours

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

Type

Illuminated manuscript on vellum

Collection

Highlights from the Ruth and Lyle Sellers Medical Collection

Citation

“BRMS 15,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed November 17, 2025, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1749.