Book of Hours (Use of Rome)
Office of the Dead, Matins, 2nd Nocturne
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New York City, NY, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 1021 (Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 28), no. 29
Simmons School of Library and Information Science LIS 464 (Fall 2018) observations (Born Digital)
General Information
Title Book of Hours (Use of Rome)
Shelfmarks M. 1021 (Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 28), no. 29)
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France
Date of Origin 1425-1450
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