Book of Hours (Use of Rome?)

Hours of the Virgin, Compline; Psalm 130 through Canticum Simeonis (Luke 2)

F-3sbm

Albany, NY, State Library of New York, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 8), no. 36 (091 xE29m)

General Information

Title Book of Hours (Use of Rome?)
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Northwestern France

Original Condition

Page Height at least 115 mm
Page Width at least 80 mm
Height of Written Area 49 mm
Width of Written Area 33 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 13

Current Condition

Dimensions 115 x 80 (49 x 33) mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

One- to two-line initials throughout in gold on red with blue infill or vice versa, with white filigree highlights. Line-fillers throughout in similar scheme.

History

Origin

Written in NW France (likely use of Rome).

Provenance

Broken by Otto and Louise Ege in the 1940s. Many leaves became no. 36 in their "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios.