Book of Hours (Use of Châlons-sur-Marne)
Horae
F-galx
Canberra, The Australian National University Library
Maggs Bros., European Miniatures and Illumination & Calligraphy also early writing from Egypt. Bulletin No. 11. London (November 1982), 27 (Printed, Handwritten, or Typescript)
Remarks by the Editor
This is the description provided in the Maggs sales catalogue. The fragment is listed no. 85 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 (Litany)
Persons
Franco-Flemish Illuminator: c. 1490
Script, Hands
Written in a brown ink.
Original Condition
Number of Lines
20
Ruling
Ruled in pink.
Current Condition
More about the Current Condition
In fine condition with wide margins.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
In both pages a floral side-border on burnished gold ground. Initial 'S' at commencement of the lines in matt gold on red and blue background alternately; 'ragged-branch' line-fillers in shaded gold. The floral side-border is different on the two pages: recto, red roses, blue and white acanthus, and blue bell-like flower; verso, white daisies, blue disc-like flower.
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language Latin
History
Provenance
From the Otto F. Ege collection, no. 48.
Other available descriptions
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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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Otto F. Ege, Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, Western Europe XII-XVI century, c1940
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