Book of Hours – Fragment
Parchment · 1 leaf · 1400 – 1425 CE · France (Northwest) · 187 x 134 (90 x 60) mmF-bmjs
New York City, NY, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 1021 (Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 28), no. 45)
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Liturgica
Persons
Ege, Otto F.
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France
Summary
Requiem tuam: quia Dominus benefecit tibi . . . / Si iniquitates observaveris Domine . . .; the Office of the Dead: Vespers, beginning in Psalm 114 and ending in the antiphonal for Psalm 129.
Written in NW France (likely for the Use of Arras or Paris) in the early 15th century. Possibly identical with the Book of Hours sold at Sotheby's London on 20 December 1948, lot 415. "The Property of a Gentleman." Dismembered by Otto or Louise Ege in the late 1940s, leaves used as no. 45 in Ege's "Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios, of which 40 were produced and 31 are known. The Morgan Library was gifted Portfolio 28, which contains this leaf, by Mr. Paul Mellon in 1979.
Record by Klara Pokrzywa
