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- Notes:
- Manuscript is bound in leather with gold spine decoration., Written in a small semicursive script in Dutch or German and Latin. pp. iv-v: brown and green pen and ink drawing of Louvain., Text includes a general Catholic martyrology, as well as a separate martyrology following the Franciscan and Poor Clares calendar. Two colored pen and ink drawings are also included, one of St. Peter's Church in Louvain, and one of Louvain itself with text about the city and its environs. This opening is of the city of Louvain., Written in Louvain, Belgium. On front pastedown: “Conventús Lovaniensis 1714.”, and Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani (Trappist, Ky.)
- Date Created:
- 1714-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Traces of earlier sewing slits appear in the middle margin, along the fold of the bifolium, possibily from the original binding. “Framed sometime before 1979, removed from frame 5-21-2010.” --from dealer description., On f. 1v, 5 line illuminated inital “B” on a field of gold, enclosing white floral pattern on a field of blue. Illumintated three-quarter border with sprays of light brown ivy and bezants on hairline stems and with fruit and flowers forms. Gold flaking from initial and bezants. Single line initials in gold and blue throughout text. Rubricated in red. On f. 1r and f. 2v, 2 line initial in blue., One bifolum from a Book of Hours in Dutch featuring illuminated marginal decoration and initial., 1 column of 18 lines ruled in drypoint and written in gothic texutalis libraria. Pricking in outer margins., and Produced in Flanders in the 15th century. Sticker on the back of frame readers “The Bonfoey Co... Clevelend, O.” Loaned to WMU Library School through Jean Lowrie from the Gethsemani Abbey Library of Kentucky in 1974, and now permanently held by Special Collections.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
