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Book of Hours (Use of Paris)

Office of the Dead, Vespers. Psalm 129 and Psalm 137

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Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 27), no. 30

Simmons School of Library and Information Science (Boston, Massachusetts) LIS 464 (Fall 2017) observations (Printed, Handwritten, or Typescript)

Original Condition

Page Height 180 – 185 mm
Page Width 125 – 130 mm
Height of Written Area 90 mm
Width of Written Area 60 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 14

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

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Decoration: Rinceaux surrounding the border on three sides. Flowers in red, blue and gold, some gold leaves, gold bar running vertical next to text. some rinceaux coming off the illuminated C on the bottom of the recto. 1 penwork linefiller on each side of the page. 

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Provenance

Offered by Bernard Quaritch cat. 240 (1905), no. 230 and cat. 290 (1910), no. 253;

Sold by Quaritch to C. L. Ricketts in 1922;

C. L. Ricketts, in S. de Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada I:634, no. 116;

Sold by Parke-Bernet Galleries, 23 February 1939, lot 217;

Dismembered by Otto Ege or an associate; Leaves used as No. 30 in Ege's "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts" portfolio;

Acquired by University of South Carolina at unknown date. 
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