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Book of Hours (Use of Paris) – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1425 – 1450 CE · France (N.) · 182 x 128 mm

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Cincinnati, OH, The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 9), no. 30, 113

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Book of Hours (Use of Paris) (Fragment), Cincinnati, OH, The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 9), no. 30, 113 (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-6rwk)

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Simmons School of Library and Information Science (Boston, Massachusetts) LIS 464 (Fall 2017) observations
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Participating Libraries

Cincinnati, OH, The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County

Century

15th century

Text Language

Latin

Script Type

Gothic Script (generic)

Liturgica

Book of hours

Persons

Ege, Otto F. (Previous Owner)

Places

France

Summary

14 lines. Incipit/explicit: Sancte guillerme or[a pro nobis].../...Sancta eufemia or[a pro nobis]. Decoration: Margins filled with gold, red, and blue rinceaux; Illuminated initials on each line, gold with interchangeable blue and red background; Line-fillers of red, blue, and some gold, some shaped in rectangles, some in spiraling circles. Evidence of later use: Leaf cut out of original binding; Added foliation (113) in pencil on top right corner of recto and (barely visible) at bottom left corner of margin decorations.