Book of Hours – Fragment Volume
Parchment · 1 leaf · 1460 – 1470 CE · Northern France · 195 x 142 (85 x 62) mmF-zfm7
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Simmons School of Library and Information Science LIS 464 (Fall 2025) observations
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Liturgica
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France
Summary
"vestras, et elevamini portae aeternales.../...Iube domine benedicere" Matins of the Hours of the Virgin, from a fifteenth-century Book of Hours for the Use of Paris, known as the St. Alexis Hours. Recto: roundel depicting St. Katherine (labeled "S[ainte] K[atherine]") standing before an altar with a priest. Verso: round depicting St Katherine (also labeled "S[ainte] K[atherine]") standing before an altar with the Virgin Mary (labeled "Notre Dame").
There is evidence of a dark patch in the lower left corner. There is also slight discoloring and wrinkles.
Summary Author
Oscar Corkey
