Book of Hours

Hours of the Virgin (?); Psalms 124 and 125

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Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 6), no. 50

General Information

Title Book of Hours
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France

Original Condition

Page Height at least 164 mm
Page Width at least 115 mm
Height of Written Area 93 mm
Width of Written Area 62 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 14

Current Condition

Dimensions 164 x 115 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Scrolling acanthus and flowers in gold and colors in outer margins (full border at the beginning of major sections); One- to two-line initials in gold leaf alternating blue with red or vice versa; line fillers in red and blue with gold accents. One extant miniature.

History

Origin

Book of Hours, likely Use of Paris (suggested by the inclusion of a suffrage for St. Denis and the ancillary texts).

Provenance

Dismembered by Otto and Louise Ege in the mid-twentieth-century. Many leaves used as no. 50 in the "FiftyOriginal Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios.