Book of Hours – Fragment
Parchment · 1 leaf · 1400 – 1450 CE · France · 185 x 130 (90 x 64)F-ifsk
Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 12), no. 45
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Liturgica
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Ege, Otto F.
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France
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Incipit/Explicit: "Mirabiliter proprio sanguine redemisti..."/"...Sion et tibi reddetur votum…" ("Creator omnium rerum deus qui" chant; Psalm 64: 1-2)
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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.
Lyette Mercier
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