Book of Hours (Use of Rome)

Office for the Dead; Matins, psalms 41 & 42

F-xkmy

Toronto, ON, The Robertson Davies Library at Massey College, Gurney FF 0001

Remarks by the Editor

Recovery of F-xkmy/1121

General Information

Title Book of Hours (Use of Rome)
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France
Date of Origin 1425-1450
Script, Hands

Gothic bookhand

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

Current Condition

Dimensions 185.5 mm x 134.5 mm
More about the Current Condition

Left-hand border on most pages of rinceaux with scattered 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.

Other available descriptions