Book of Hours
Office of the Conception of the Virgin, Matins
F-igiq
New Haven, CT, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, GEN MSS 1498; Series II; Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts; Book of Hours (Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis) (50), 1500-1550
SLIS 464 Fall 2024 (Born Digital)
General Information
Title Book of Hours
Shelfmarks GEN MSS 1498; Series II; Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts; Book of Hours (Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis) (50), 1500-1550
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France (Northern)
Date of Origin 1470-1480
Script, Hands
Written by two scribes (A and B) in a Gothic Hybrida.
Original Condition
Page Height at least 164 mm
Page Width at least 115 mm
Height of Written Area 93 mm
Width of Written Area 62 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 14 – 15
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Scrolling acanthus and flowers in gold and colors in outer margins (full border at the beginning of major sections); One- to two-line initials in gold leaf alternating blue with red or vice versa; line fillers in red and blue with gold accents. One extant miniature.
History
Origin
Book of Hours, likely Use of Paris (suggested by the inclusion of a suffrage for St. Denis and the ancillary texts).
Provenance
Dismembered by Otto and Louise Ege in the mid-twentieth century. Many leaves used as no. 50 in the "Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios.