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Book of Hours (Use of Paris) – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1420 – 1440 CE · France

F-345l

Toronto, ON, The Robertson Davies Library at Massey College, Gurney FF 0001, Leaf 31
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  • Simmons School of Library and Information Science (Boston, Massachusetts) LIS 464 (Fall 2021) observations
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Participating Libraries
Toronto, ON, The Robertson Davies Library at Massey College
Century
15th century
Text Language
Latin
Script Type
Northern Textualis
Liturgica
Book of hours
Persons
Ege, Otto F. (Fragmentator)
Places
France
Summary

"Per diem sol non uret.../...et copsia apud eum." (Office of the Dead - Vespers. End of Psalm 120, Antiphons of Psalm 120, Beginning of Psalm 129) The leaves are from a manuscript dismembered in the late 1940s by bookdealer Otto Ege and used as no. 31 in his "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts" portfolio. They are catalogued in the Massey College Robertson Davies Library as part of the Gurney Collection. Description by Rebecca Tinker.

External Resources
↗ University of Toronto, Massey College, Robertson Davies Library, Gurney Collection, Otto Ege Leaves
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