Book of Hours
Office of the Dead, Vespers
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Northampton, Massachusetts, United States, Smith College Museum of Art, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (s.n.), no. 50
SLIS 464 Fall 2024 (Born Digital)
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 Hybrid.
Original Condition
Page Height at least 164 mm
Page Width at least 115 mm
Height of Written Area 93 mm
Width of Written Area 62 mm
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 initials in gold leaf alternating blue with red or vice vetsa; line fillers in red and blue with gold accents. One extant miniature.