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Book of Hours, Use of Angers – Fragment

Parchment · 1 bifolium · 1450 – 1500 CE · France, Loire Valley · 146 x 103 mm

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Rock Hill, Carolina, Winthrop University Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections, 1500-Med MS 15A-B
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Liturgica
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Sotheby & Co (Seller)
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Origin: France
Summary

Provenance: The bifolium can be traced to its imperfect parent manuscript (164 leaves, several mutilated), sold as lot 246 in Sotheby & Co Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures sale, 6 July 1964.

Text: The text comprises part of the service of Vespers in the Office of the Dead, beginning with the concluding verses of Psalm 120, followed by Psalms 129 and 137.

Script and decoration: Written in lettre bâtarde script. Two 2-line initials in gold with brown highlights on blue ground; fourteen versal capitals alternately blue or gold, with pen flourishing in red or black extending into the margins. Line fillers consist of alternating blue and brown bars embellished with fronds in gold.

Marginal panel decorated with acanthus foliage in blue and gold together with long-stemmed pink flowers.

Reconstruction: This leaf is included as part of an ongoing digital reconstruction of the manuscript's surviving fragments. Additional identified fragments may be viewed and contributed via Fragmentarium F-g81r

Summary Author
R. Faunce
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