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Book of Hours

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Toronto, ON, The Robertson Davies Library at Massey College, Gurney Pam 0012

Andreea Marin, Massey College 2022 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Book of Hours
Shelfmarks Gurney Pam 0012
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Belgium
Date of Origin 1440-1500
Script, Hands

Northern Textualis variation. Potentially Gothic textura quadrata
General Remarks

Text from the Office for the Dead, Matins, third lesson. Possible use of Cambrai. Job 14 - Psalm 39. 

Original Condition

Page Height 165 mm
Page Width 115 mm
Height of Written Area 95 mm
Width of Written Area 62 – 66 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 62 – 66 mm
Number of Lines 16
Line Height 7 mm
Ruling yes

Current Condition

Dimensions 165 x 115 mm
More about the Current Condition

leaf ripped and twisted at the bottom left of the recto. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

  • Musical Notation

    Frame ruled in drypoint. 2-line decorated, illuminated psalm initial, on rose and blue ground patterned in white. Alternating red and blue secondary initials throughout. Line fillers in red and blue stylized lines. 

    • History

    Origin

    Burgundy between the late 1440s and the late 1460s due to lack of decoration. Cf. Reynolds, 9. "A shift in taste made it acceptable to omit decorated borders altogether." See Bibliography. 

    Bibliography

    • Reynolds, Catherine. "The Undecorated Margin: The Fashion for Luxury Books without Borders" in Flemish Manuscript painting in Context, 9-26. 
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