Book of Hours (Use of Rome)
Hours of the Virgin, Matins
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Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 13), no. 29
Simmons School of Library and Information Science LIS 464 (Fall 2018) observations (Born Digital)
General Information
Title Book of Hours
Shelfmarks Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 13), 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
Current Condition
Dimensions 186 x 134 (90 x 90) mm
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Left-hand border on most pages of single-stem rinceaux with scattered flowers and fruit. Decorated initialsm burnished gold on a blue and magenta ground with white tracery.
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.