Dominican Sisters’ office book, spine

Notes:

Contemporary brown leather boards; two concentric double blind-ruled borders, filled with blind-stamped shell and flower ornaments; diapered center panel, lozenges of which contain blind-stamped flower and eagle ornaments; brass and leather strap-and-pin fastener; front and back pastedowns are vellum leaves; engraving of a saint’s deathbed scene removed from another text, and affixed to front pastedown. In a green cloth clamshell box, with green leather spine., Leather spine of a manual or office book compiled for a Dominican nunnery containing liturgies and prayers. Spine worn to the binding structure underneath including the headband., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1996.

Date Created:

[1450 TO 1469]

Data Provider:

Western Michigan University. Libraries

Subject Topic:

Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts--Manuscripts, Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800, Dominican Sisters--Liturgy--Texts--Early works to 1800, Dominicans Sisters--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Latin, Manuscripts, German, Bookbinding--Specimens, and Liturgies

Language:

lat and ger

Rights:

No copyright. Digital access provided by Western Michigan University Libraries.

URL:

https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/detail/WMUwmu~77~77~1222464~160172