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Book of Hours (Use of Rouen) – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1460 – 1480 CE · France (Northern) · 162.5 x 120 mm

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Athens, OH, Ohio University, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 5), no. 46
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  • Simmons School of Library and Information Science (Boston, Massachusetts) LIS 464 (Fall 2020) observations
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Liturgica
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Otto Eger, 1877-1949 (Fragmentator)
Summary

"Ecce sic benedictur homo qui timet Dominum.../...et eterna per frui letitia per christum" (Hours of the Virgin, None, preserving antiphon "Pulchra es et decorum" and chapter reading "Et radicavi in populo," providing evidence of Use); Dismembered by Ohio bookdealer Otto F. Ege sometime in the 1940s. Leaves of this manuscript became no. 46 in his "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios.

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