Book of Hours (Use of Rome)
Office of the Dead at Lauds Isaiah 38- Song of Hezekiah
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Cincinnati, OH, The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 9), no. 29
Simmons School of Library and Information Science LIS 464 (Fall 2018) observations (Not Printed)
General Information
Title: Book of Hours (Use of Rome)
Shelfmarks: Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 9), no. 29
Material: Parchment
Place of Origin: France
Date of Origin: 1425-1450
Script, Hands:
Gothic Bookhand
Original Condition
Page Height: 186 mm
Page Width: 134 mm
Height of Written Area: 90 mm
Width of Written Area: 60 mm
Number of Columns: 1
Number of Lines: 14
Current Condition
Dimensions: 186 v 134 (90 x 60) mm
Book Decoration
Description:
Left-hand border on most pages of rinceaux with scattered flowers and fruit.
History
Origin:
Written and decorated in Northern France in the second quarter of the fifteenth century.
Provenance:
Broken by Otto F. Ege in ther second quarter of the twentieth century.