Book of Hours (Use of Rome?)

Hours of the Virgin, Lauds

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Boulder, CO, University of Colorado, Boulder, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 32), no. 36

General Information

Title Book of Hours
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Northwest France
Date of Origin ca. 1450

Original Condition

Page Height at least 115 mm
Page Width at least 80 mm
Height of Written Area 49 mm
Width of Written Area 33 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 13

Current Condition

Dimensions 115 x 80mm (49 x 33mm)

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

One to two-line initials on gold on red with blue infill or vice versa, with white filligree highlights. Line fillers throughout in similar scheme. 

History

Origin

Written in NW France (likely use of Rome). 

Provenance

Broken by Otto and Louise Ege in the 1940s. Many leaves became no. 36 in their "Fifty Original Leaves of MEdieval Manuscirpts" portfolios.