Book of Hours (Use of Rome)
Office of the Dead, Matins, 1st Nocturne, 2nd Lesson-3rd Lesson
F-zwmi
Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 10), no. 29
Simmons School of Library and Information Science LIS 464 (Fall 2018) observations (Born Digital)
General Information
Title Book of Hours (Use of Rome)
Shelfmarks Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 10), no. 29
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 186 x 134 mm
More about the Current Condition
Lightly worn edges from use. Ege tape on right-hand side of recto.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
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.