Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The Hours of St. Alexis" – Fragment
Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1475 CE · France (Northern) · 195 x 142 (85 x 62)F-edlq
Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Belisarius, s.n.
Image Rights
How to quote
Scholarly descriptions
-
Simmons School of Library and Information Science LIS 464 (Fall 2025) observations
Show description
Century
Text Language
Script Type
Liturgica
Places
Origin:
France
Summary
"qui sacratissima[m] carne[m] sua[m]... / ...cui propriu[m] est miserii[sic] semp[er] et"
From the suffrages in a fifteenth-century Book of Hours known as the St. Alexius hours, variant of "O Intemerata". Full borders of acanthus, rinceaux, and berry plants. At the bottom of both the recto and verso, there is a fruit tree tentatively idendified as a pear tree. Recto roundel: Two women, one in pink and one in blue, kneeling before an altar. Behind the table, a tonsured monk in a white robe stands, offering them Communion. Verso roundel: a man and woman, both in blue, standing on a background which is half red and gold, half green. The woman has a halo, possibly the Virgin Mary.
Summary Author
Marion Hamilton
External Resources
↗ Belisarius Art and Design
