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Book of Hours – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1400 – 1425 CE · France (Northwest) · 187 X 134 (90 x 60) mm

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Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 13), no. 45

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Book of Hours (Fragment), Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 13), no. 45 (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-y0xg)

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Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota

Century

15th century

Text Language

French

Script Type

Gothic Script (generic)

Liturgica

Book of hours

Persons

Ege, Otto F. (Fragmentator)

Places

France

Summary

Douce dame.../...ycelle grant ioye que...; Fifteen Joys of the Virgin.

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.

Record by Ji Baek