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
Simmons School of Library and Information Science LIS 464 (Fall 2018) observations (Born Digital)
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.