Book of Hours
Office of the Dead, Vespers, Psalms 114 119 and 120
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New York City, NY, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 1021 (Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 28), no. 50)
SLIS 464 Fall 2024 (Born Digital)
General Information
Title Book of Hours
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France (Northern)
Script, Hands
Written by two scribed (A and B) in a Gothic Hybrida.
Original Condition
Page Height at least 164 mm
Page Width at least 115 mm
Height of Written Area at least 93 mm
Width of Written Area at least 62 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 14 – 15
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Scrolling acanthus and flowers in gold and colors in outer margins (full border at beginning of major sections); One- to two-line initials in gold leaf alternating blue with red or vice versa; line fillers in red and blue with gold accents. One extant miniature.
History
Origin
Book of Hours, likely Use of Paris (suggested by the inclusion of a sufferage for St. Denis and the ancillary texts.
Provenance
Dismembered by Otto and Louise in the mid-twentieth-century. Many leaves as no. 50 in the "Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios.