Book of Hours

Hours of the Virgin

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Cleveland, OH, Case Western Reserve University, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 37), no. 50

General Information

Title Book of Hours
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France (Northern)
Date of Origin 1470-1480
Script, Hands

Written by two scribes (A and B) in a Gothic Hybrida.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 164 mm
Page Width at least 115 mm
Height of Written Area at least 93 mm
Width of Written Area at least 62 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 14 – 15

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Scrolling acanthus and flowers in gold and colors in outer margins (full border at the beginning of major sections); One- to two-line intitials in gold leaf alternating blue with red or vice versa; line fillers in red and blue with gold accents. One extant miniature.

History

Origin

Book of Hours, likey Use of Paris (suggested by the inclusion of a suffrage for St. Denis and the ancillary texts).

Provenance

Dismembered by Otto and Louise Ege in the mid-twentieth-century. Many leaves used as no. 50 in the "Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios.