Book of Hours (Use of Rome)

Office of the Dead, 3rd Nocturne of Matins

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Athens, OH, Ohio University, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 5), no. 29.

General Information

Title Book of Hours (Use of Rome)
Shelfmarks Athens, OH, Ohio University, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 5), no. 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

Current Condition

More about the Current Condition

signs that it was broken by Otto F. Ege and taped into mattes

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Left-hand border on most of pages of rinceaux with scatted flowers and fruit.

History

Origin

written and decorated in Northern France in the second quarter of the fifteenth century

Provenance

broken by Otto F. Ege in the second quarter of the twentieth century.