Book of Hours (Use of Rouen)

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Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 6), no. 46 [mums570-i046]

General Information

Title Book of Hours
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France
Date of Origin ca. 1470
Script, Hands

Written in a Gothic bookhand, possibly by several different scribes

Current Condition

Dimensions 135 x 175 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Outer borders on each page (outlined in red at left and right) or scrolling acanthus in blue and gold on a rinceaux background with leaves, flowers, and fruit in colors. One-line initials throughout in gold leaf filled with dark salmon on a blue background, or vice versa. Line fillers in blue or red with white filigree highlights and gold-ball centerpieces, with particularly small linefillers as flowers in similar color scheme.

History

Origin

Written in NW France around the year 1470, for the use of Rouen or Coutances

Provenance

Dismembered by Cleveland bookdealer Otto F. Ege in the 1940s. Leaves used as no. 46 in his "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios, thirty of which have been located.