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Detail View: Medieval Collection: Binding of manuscript

Image Number: 
JRL20082040
Reference Number: 
Latin MS 165
Image Title: 
Binding of manuscript
Parent Work Title: 
Abbot Islip. Devotions
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Prayer Book
Date Created: 
15th century [late]
Description: 
Abbot Islip. Devotions, fifteenth century handwritten prayer book written in vellum, 13 lines to a page, in upright Gothic hand: with curious ornamentation. The binding is of dark brown leather over wooden boards: with remains of two metal clasps. On each cover is a panel of gold tooling consisting of a frame of roll-ornament, angle-ornaments in the form of elaborated fleurs-de-lys, central panel with the arms of England and France quarterly (for Henry VII ?). The shield is put together in part at least out of stamps originally separate : for instance, its outline is composed of four curved pieces of branch-ornament and two plain curved pieces back to back: and the pale or vertical dividing line is a rod with a fleur-de-lys at each end.
Page: 
Spine
Language Code: 
lat-GB
Language: 
Latin
Subject: 
Catholic Church
Subject: 
Christianity
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Sub-Category: 
Bindings
Support: 
Leather
Creation Site: 
England
Item Height: 
120 mm
Item Width: 
94 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
References: 
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands University Library.1, MSS 1-183 with Plates, Comprising a Reprint of M.R. James's 1921 Catalogue with Introduction and Additional Notes by F. Taylor. 1980
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2020-08-24
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2020-10
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Medieval