Book of Hours (Use of Rome)
Hours of the Virgin, None
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Albany, NY, State Library of New York, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 8), 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
Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 8), 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
Inner border on both recto and verso featuring rinceaux, flowers, 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