Book of Hours (Use of Rome)

Office of the Dead, Matins, Third Nocturne. Psalm 41 (recto) Job 17 (verso)

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Cleveland, OH, Case Western Reserve University, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 37), no. 29

General Information

Title Book of Hours
Shelfmarks Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 37), no. 29
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France
Date of Origin 1425-1450
Script, Hands

Gothic bookhand

Original Condition

Page Height 186 mm
Page Width 134 mm
Height of Written Area 90 mm
Width of Written Area 60 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 14

Current Condition

Dimensions 186 x 134 (90 x 60) mm
More about the Current Condition

Minor staining on recto and verso near outer corners and on binding edge.  Remnants of Ege tape visible on lower outside corner of recto.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Left-hand border on most pages of rinceaux with scattered flowers and fruit.

History

Origin

Written and decorated in northern France in the second quarter of the fifteenth century.

Provenance

Broken by Otto F. Ege in the second quarter of the twentieth century.