Book of Hours (Use of Rouen)
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New York City, NY, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 1021 (Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 28), no. 46)
Simmons School of Library and Information Science (Boston, Massachusetts) LIS 464 (Fall 2020) observations (Born Digital)
General Information
Title
Book of Hours (Use of Rouen or Coutances?)
Material
Parchment
Place of Origin
France
Date of Origin
ca. 1470
Script, Hands
Written in a Gothic bookhand, possibly by several different scribes.
Original Condition
Page Height
at least 163 mm
Page Width
at least 122 mm
Height of Written Area
98 mm
Width of Written Area
68 mm
Number of Columns
1
Number of Lines
16
Current Condition
Dimensions
163 x 122 mm
More about the Current Condition
Dismembered by Cleveland bookdealer Otto F. Ege in the 1940s. Leaves used as no. 46 in his "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios, thirty of which have been located.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Persons:
Outer borders on each page (outlined in red at left and right) of scrolling acanthus in blue and gold on a rinceaux background, with leaves, flowers, and fruit in colors. Several 3/4 borders in a similar style, at major section breaks. One-line initials throughout in gold leaf filled with dark salmon on a blue background, or vice versa. Two-line initials throughout in blue or dark-salmon on gold. Linefillers in blue or red with white filigree highlights and gold-ball centerpieces, with particularly small linefillers as flowers in a similar color scheme.
History
Origin
Written in NW France around the year 1470, for the Use of Rouen or Coutances.
Provenance
Dismembered by Cleveland bookdealer Otto F. Ege in the 1940s. Leaves used as no. 46 in his "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios, thirty of which have been located.