Book of Hours (Use of Metz)
Office of the Dead: Vespers/Matins, Luke 1 into Psalm 5
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Bloomington, IN, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 24), no. 28
Simmons School of Library and Information Science (Boston, Massachusetts), LIS 464 Fall 2019 observations (Born Digital)
General Information
Title
Book of Hours (Use of Metz)
Shelfmarks
Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 24), no. 28
Material
Parchment
Place of Origin
France (Northern)
Date of Origin
ca. 1420
Original Condition
Page Height
150 – 160 mm
Page Width
103 – 115 mm
Height of Written Area
at least 87 mm
Width of Written Area
at least 62 mm
Number of Columns
1
Number of Lines
at least 15
Current Condition
Dimensions
150 x 103 mm
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Full-length double-bar in gold and colors along left margin, with rinceaux halfway across upper and lower margin. One- to -two-line initials in gold on red or blue backgrounds. Rectangular line-fillers in gold and colors.
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language latin
- Title Book of Hours (Use of Metz)
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Content Description
Use of Metz indicated by the antiphon and chapter reading of None for the Hours of the Virgin, and supported by the contents of the calendar page. Some features of the text are atypical including Psalm choices and lessons.
History
Origin
Made in Northern France for the Use of Metz.
Provenance
Purchased by Otto F. Ege in the 1930s; dismembered shortly thereafter. Leaves of this manuscripts are used as no. 28 in his "Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios.