Book of Hours (Use of Rome)
Office of the Dead: 1st Nocturne of Matins
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Boulder, CO, University of Colorado, Boulder, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 32), no. 29
Simmons School of Library and Information Science LIS 464 (Fall 2018) observations (Born Digital)
General Information
Title Book of Hours (Use of Rome)
Shelfmarks Ege 29
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France
Date of Origin 1425-1450
Script, Hands
Gothic bookhand
Original Condition
Page Height 186 mm
Page Width 134 mm
Height of Written Area 90 mm
Width of Written Area 60 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 14
Ruling red ruling
More about the Condition
Fairly clean. Some yellowing and spotting, slightly darker along the inner and outer edges. Thread holes visible in what would have been the gutter.
Current Condition
Dimensions 186 x 134 (90 x 60) mm
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Left-hand border on recto of rinceaux with scattered leaves, a flower at bottom and single blueberry at top. Illuminated capitals.
Verso has illuminated capitals but no decoration.
History
Origin
Written and decorated in northern France in the second quarter of the fifteenth century.
Provenance
Leaf came from manuscript broken by Otto F. Ege in the second quarter of the twentieth century.
Sold in boxed set in Sotheby's auction 11/26/1985, part of lot 74.
