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.