Book of Hours (Use of Rouen)
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Toronto, ON, The Robertson Davies Library at Massey College, Gurney FF 0001
Andreea Marin, Robertson Davies Library 2024 (Born Digital)
General Information
Title Book of Hours (Use of Rouen)
Material Parchment
Original Condition
Page Height 161 – 162 mm
Page Width 117 – 120 mm
Height of Written Area 95 mm
Width of Written Area 22 – 70 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 22 – 70 mm
Number of Lines 16
Line Height 6 – 7 mm
Ruling yes
Current Condition
Dimensions 163 x 122 mm
History
Remarks
Note by Otto Ege:
The Book of Hours, the prayer book of the laity, usually contains 16 sections. The section on prayers to the Virgin is the most important and most used, and its manuscripts exceed in number all other XVth century religious texts. The laymen who ordered and purchased these boosk would at times stipulate the style of ornament and the amount of burnished gold to be used, and could even, to a certain extent, select the saints tthey esteemed most and wished to glorify. In this example, the border reveals by its wayside flowers entangled wtih the heavy acanthus motif of the North and by the use of the "wash" gold that it was executed in Northern France about 1475 A.D.
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Simmons School of Library and Information Science (Boston, Massachusetts) LIS 464 (Fall 2020) observations
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