Book of Hours
Office of the Dead (Matins, Third Nocturn)
F-g58a
This description was completed as part of a manuscript studies course taught by Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin at the University of Victoria (Fall 2023).
General Information
Northern Textualis
Single leaf from a Book of Hours, showing the Office of the Dead, Matins, Third Nocturn, with Psalm 29 before the start of the hour.
Original Condition
Current Condition
In good condition with few signs of use. No evidence of previous binding or pricking present.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Uses mainly yellow and blue with hints of green and red throughout the foliate decoration on the right margin of the recto, where coloured flowers are outlined in black ink. The text contains red, blue, and gold letters with white details.
History
Donated to University of Victoria Special Collections by Bruce and Dorothy Brown in 2003. At the time of donation was displayed in frame along with UVic Fragm.Brown.Lat.9, erroneously thought to be from the same Book of Hours.
Fragm.Brown.Lat.8 was stored and displayed with Fragm.Brown.Lat.9 by the donors. This storage history led the UVic Special Collections to store the fragments in the same folder and presume the two were from the same Book of Hours. However, differences in size, script, decoration, number of lines, and mise-en-page confirm that these two fragments are not from the same book.
Other available descriptions
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Guifen Jiang, University of Victoria, 2022
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