Book of Hours (Use of Rouen)
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Buffalo, NY, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts (Set 11) no. 46
Simmons School of Library and Information Science (Boston, Massachusetts) LIS 464 (Fall 2020) observations (Born Digital)
General Information
Title Book of Hours
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France
Date of Origin ca. 1470
Script, Hands
Written in Gothic bookhand, possibly by several different scribes.
Original Condition
Page Height at least 163 mm
Page Width at least 122 mm
Height of Written Area 95 – 98 mm
Width of Written Area 68 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 16
Current Condition
More about the Current Condition
Dismembered by Cleveland bookdealer Otto Ege in the 1940s. Leaves used as No. 46 in the "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts " portfolios, thirty of which are accounted for.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Outer borders, outlined in red, on leaf scrolling acathus of blue and gold with leaves, flowers and fruit.
History
Origin
Written in Northwest France around the year 1470, for the use of Rouens or Coutances
Provenance
Dismembered by Cleveland bookdealer Otto Ege in the 1940s. Leaves used as No. 46 in the "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts " portfolios, thirty of which are accounted for.