Book of Hours (Use of Rome)

Office of the Dead-Matins, Second Nocturne

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Bloomington, IN, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 24), no.29

General Information

Title Book of Hours (use of Rome)
Shelfmarks Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 24), 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
More about the Condition

The leaf presents some signs of wear, such as fading ink as well as the loss of some gold in the vine leaves. The edges of the leaf are darker, most likely do to handling and age.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Left-hand border on most pages of rinceux with scattered 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.