Book of Hours (Use of Rome)

Office of the Dead, Matins, Second Nocturne

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Northampton, MA, Smith College, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (unnumbered set), no. 29

General Information

Title Book of Hours (Use of Rome)
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

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Left-hand border on most pages of rinceaux with scatter flower 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