Book of Hours (Use of Paris)
Gospel Readings: Gospels of John and Luke
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Toronto, ON, Ontario College of Art and Design, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 36), no. 30
Simmons School of Library and Information Science (Boston, Massachusetts) LIS 464 (Fall 2017) observations (Printed, Handwritten, or Typescript)
General Information
Date of Origin
1420-1430
Original Condition
Page Height
180 – 185 mm
Page Width
125 – 130 mm
Height of Written Area
90 mm
Width of Written Area
60 mm
Number of Columns
1
Number of Lines
14
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language Latin
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Content Description
Excerpt from Gospels of John and Luke
History
Provenance
Offered by Bernard Quaritch cat. 240 (1905), no. 230 and cat. 290 (1910), no. 253; Sold by Quaritch to C.L. Ricketts in 1922; C.L. Ricketts in S. de Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada I:634, no. 116; Sold by Parke-Bernet Galleries, 23 February 1939, lot 217; Dismembered by Otto Ege or associate; Leaves used as no. 30 in Ege's "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts" portfolio; acquired by Ontario College of Art and Design on June 23, 1955.