Book of Hours

Prayers

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Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati, John Miller Burnam Classics Library, BX2080 .F74 1470c

Remarks by the Editor

Assembled from observations by Rebecka Lindau, Head, The John Miller Burnam Classics Library, University of Cincinnati with Yo Shionoya, Special Projects Student Assistant, integrating information from the seller.

General Information

Title Book of Hours
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France
Date of Origin late fourteenth century
General Remarks

From the seller's descritpion:

Ca. 1470 in France. Book of Hours leaf on vellum in Latin, done in a French size, 8" x 6". Gold-heightened initial & border. The inhabited initial shows some devotional rubbing.

Original Condition

Page Height 200 – 205 mm
Page Width 150 – 155 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 15
Numbering

In the top-right of both sides, a number (20th- or 21st-century) has been written in: 369 on the recto; the verso is harding to read.

Current Condition

Dimensions 203 x 152 mm

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Book of Hours, Prayers
    • Content Description

      Contains a version of "Obsecro te" from (recto) et fidem rectam castitatem humilitatem...to the end (verso) et misericordie. Amen.

      Followed by "O Intemerata", introduced the rubric: Oro devota de beata maria. or(ati)o.

      inc: O intemerata et in eternum benedicta... fecit matrem

      Almost certainly the prayers section of a book of hours.

History

Provenance

Purchased from Tuscan Books (Rudolph Hofmeister), Escondido, California.

It is unknown when and where the original book was broken to sell off the individual leaves.