Book of Hours
Office of the Dead, Matins, First Nocturn
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This description was completed as part of a manuscript studies course with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin at the University of Victoria (Fall 2023).
General Information
Northern Textualis
Single leaf from a Book of Hours, containing a section of the Office of the Dead (Matins, First Nocturn).
Original Condition
Current Condition
In good condition with few marks of use. No evidence of pricking or previous binding visible.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Marginal decoration on both the recto and verso, both with blue, red, green, yellow, gold, and black ink. Foliate borders contain flowers and curved lines, with stems and some leaves in black, while flower petals and some leaves are done in green, red, blue, yellow, and gold. Decorated initials contain blue, red, gold, and white details and appear throughout both sides of the leaf.
History
Donated to University of Victoria Special Collections by Bruce and Dorothy Brown in 2003. This fragment was framed with UVic Fragm.Brown.Lat.8 at the time of donation.
The donors displayed Fragm.Brown.Lat.9 with Fragm.Brown.Lat.8 and included a caption that read noted they were "two leaves from a Book of Hours." This storage history led University of Victoria Special Collections to put the fragments in the same folder and presume they were from the same Book of Hours. However, differences in size, script, colour use, number of lines, and overall mise-en-page confirm that these two fragments came from different books.