Book of Hours (Use of Rome)
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Greensboro, NC, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 38), no. 29
Simmons School of Library and Information Science LIS 464 (Fall 2018) observations (Born Digital)
General Information
Title
Book of Hours (Horæ Beatæ Mariæ Virginis) [leaf from Ege medieval manuscripts]
Shelfmarks
Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 38), 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
More about the Condition
Tape; believed to have been placed by Otto Ege when he dismembered it.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Persons:
Left hand border rinceaux on each leaf
History
Origin
Written and decorated in France in the second quarter of the fifteenth century
Provenance
Broken by Otto F. Ege in the second quarter of the twentieth century.