Book of Hours
Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis
F-d83v
Canberra, The Australian National University Library
Maggs Bros., European Miniatures and Illumination & Calligraphy also early writing from Egypt. Bulletin No. 11. London (November 1982), 29 (Printed, Handwritten, or Typescript)
Remarks by the Editor
This is the description provided in the Maggs sales catalogue. The fragment is listed no. 93 and illustrated (plate XXXI). It is marked as sold, suggesting that the sale was negotiated immediately prior to the printing, too late to drop it from the catalogue.
General Information
Title
Illuminated vellum leaf from a Book of Hours.
Date of Origin
c. 1520-30
Persons
French Illuminator
Script, Hands
Written in a flourished cursive script (precursor of the civilite types introduced by Granjon in 1559)
Original Condition
Number of Lines
14
Current Condition
More about the Current Condition
A most attractive and unusual leaf, in beautiful condition with wide margins.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
With two 2-line and sixteen 1-line initials in burnished gold on parti-grounds of blue and red, white tracery decoration; also thirteen line-fillers in a matching style. One floral side-border with two acanthus curls, in matt gold and colours.
History
Provenance
Collection of Otto F. Ege, no. 50.
Other available descriptions
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Otto F. Ege, Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, Western Europe XII-XVI century, c1940
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R. Faunce, "Cataloguing and making discoverable ANU Library's small collection of detached medieval manuscript leaves", The Australian National University, 2018.
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