Book of Hours
Office for the Dead at Vespers, Psalm 114
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Description produced as part of the course "In the Archives" taught by Prof. Adrienne Williams Boyarin, University of Victoria, 2021.
General Information
Southern Textualis
Book of Hours leaf with all of Psalm 114, the beginning of the Office of the Dead (large illuminated initial D and hierarchy of scripts also start of the Office). Black ink with rubrics for antiphons and psalms; margins ruled in red ink on verso.
Incipit: DILEXI QVONIAM Exaudiet dominus: uocem orationis mee ...
Explicit: Placebo domino in regione uiuorum. antiphona. Heu michi. Psalmus dauid.
Current Condition
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
First 5 lines on recto consist of decorative capitals separated by line fillers. Litterae florissae in alternating gold and blue; illuminated littera notibilior (initial D on recto) in pink, red, gold, blue, green, white, and black. Also visible on the recto is the impression of a miniature that once faced this leaf; ink-transfer reveals the miniature's textbox frame and foliate border. The fragment's verso also has a decorative impression, as the gesso used to apply the gold leaf on the recto has soaked through and left depressed saturation marks.
History
East Central Italy?
Donated by Bruce and Dorothy Brown in 2003 to the University of Victoria Libraries.