Illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum in tempura and from a Book of Hour

Categories

Special Collections > McConnell Library Manuscript Collection

Subject

Book of Hours

Medieval manuscripts

Type

vellum

Coverage - Temporal

ca. 1470

Identifier

CBC_3_001_reduced.tif

Language

Latin

Publisher

Radford University. McConnell Library. Archives & Special Collections.

Description

Latin text written in gothic hand in brown ink with rubrics in red. Versal initials in blue and red with contrasting penwork. Two line initial "L" in burnished gold with contrasting penwork in blue. The initial opens Psalm 121, "Levavi Oculos meos . . ." (I will lift up mine eyes). Digitized on loan from the personal collection of a Radford University Professor of Art History, Dr. Bradbury.

Rights

In the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of Dr. Bradbury Manuscript Collection, Archives & Special Collections, McConnell Library, Radford University as a source for borrowed images is requested.