Book of Hours (Use of Rouen)

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[sine loco], codices restituti, Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, no. 46

General Information

Title Book of Hours
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

Description

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. Use is determinable due to the survival of the antiphon and chapter reading for None of the Hours of the Virgin, seven recovered Matins responsories for the Office of the Dead, and the Lauds short lesson "In omnibus requiem," which Dominique Stutzmann has identified as Rouen Use (private correspondance).

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.