Dominican Sisters’ office book, fore-edge and tail

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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., Front and tail leather boards and fore-edge of a manual or office book compiled for a Dominican nunnery containing liturgies and prayers. Edge shows a brass and leather strap-and-pin faster and cockled parchment., 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~77~77~1222463~160173