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Book of Hours (Use of Rome?) – Virtual Reconstruction

Parchment · 30 leaves · 1440 – 1460 CE · France (NW) · 115 x 80 (49 x 33) mm

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[sine loco], codices restituti, Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, no. 36
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Ege, Otto F. (Fragmentator)
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Origin: France
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A Book of Hours written in Northwest France in the mid-15th century. The manuscript was broken by Otto and Louise Ege in the 1940s. Many leaves became no. 36 in the Eges' "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios. Reconstruction by students in Lisa Fagin Davis' course "The Medieval Manuscript from Charlemagne to Gutenberg" at Simmons University, Boston, Fall 2023: Madison Bellew, Hannah Bini, Emily Bowie, Ceara Cannon, Bailey Colborn, Graham Cousins, Maggie Erwin, Abby Johnston, Rowan Lowell, Grace Parenti, Megan Rahal, Jordan Shaw, Ana Sheehy, Sasha Tekeian, Sarah von Moritz, and Connor York.