Book of Hours (Use of Rome)

Office of the Dead: Matins: Second Nocturne (lesson 6) leading into Third Nocturne

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Stony Brook, NY, Stony Brook University, Z109.e4 (Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 19), no. 29)

General Information

Title Book of Hours (Use of Rome)
Shelfmarks Z109.e4 (Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 19), 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

Ege tape (from mattes); small tear in outer margins.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Left-hand border on most pages of rinceaux 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.