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Book of Hours (Use of Paris) – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1420 – 1440 CE · France

F-345l

Toronto, ON, The Robertson Davies Library at Massey College, Gurney FF 0001 (Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 17), no. 31)

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Book of Hours (Use of Paris) (Fragment), Toronto, ON, The Robertson Davies Library at Massey College, Gurney FF 0001 (Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 17), no. 31) (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-345l)

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Simmons School of Library and Information Science (Boston, Massachusetts) LIS 464 (Fall 2021) observations
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Participating Libraries

Toronto, ON, The Robertson Davies Library at Massey College

Century

15th century

Text Language

Latin

Script Type

Northern Textualis

Liturgica

Book of hours

Persons

Ege, Otto F. (Fragmentator)

Places

France

Summary

"Per diem sol non uret.../...et copsia apud eum." (Office of the Dead - Vespers. End of Psalm 120, Antiphons of Psalm 120, Beginning of Psalm 129) The leaves are from a manuscript dismembered in the late 1940s by bookdealer Otto Ege and used as no. 31 in his "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts" portfolio. They are catalogued in the Massey College Robertson Davies Library as part of the Gurney Collection. Description by Rebecca Tinker.