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Book of Hours (Use of Rome) – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1405 – 1408175 CE · Paris, France · 267 x 175 mm

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Dunedin, Dunedin Public Libraries Heritage Collection, RMM Fragment 17b, f. 136
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Book of Hours (Use of Rome) (Fragment), Dunedin, Dunedin Public Libraries Heritage Collection, RMM Fragment 17b, f. 136 (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-4xnj)
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Century
15th century
Text Language
Latin
Script Type
Gothic Script (generic)
Liturgica
Book of hours
Persons
Beatty, Alfred Chester (Fragmentator)
Boucicaut Master (Illuminator)
Edward Arnold, 1890-1956 (Previous Owner)
Folio Fine Art Ltd (Seller)
Jarman, John Boykett (Previous Owner)
Maître de la Mazarine (Illuminator)
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (Seller)
Thomas, Alan Gradon (Seller)
Places
Origin: Paris
Summary

Leaf from a manuscript once part of the French royal library, known as the Chester Beatty Book of Hours, after the owner who dismembered it. Acquired from English bookseller Alan G. Thomas in 1970. Catalogue 24 (1970), no. 7. 

Decoration: Text framed by exquisite border decoration: enclosed on three sides by burnished gold staffs sprouting scrolling ivy vine scrolls around the margins, the leaves coloured gold, red and blue. One 2-line and seven 1-line initials, alternating red and blue on burnished gold grounds, with matching line fillers.

Text: Hours of the Virgin - Latter part of Matins in the Office of the Dead and the opening of Lauds.

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