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Book of Hours – Fragment

Parchment · 1 Leaf · 1400 – 1425 CE · France · 185 x 130 (90 x 64)

F-f5h7

Greensboro, NC, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 38), no. 45
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Book of Hours (Fragment), Greensboro, NC, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 38), no. 45 (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-f5h7)
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Participating Libraries
Greensboro, NC, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Century
15th century
Text Language
Latin
Script Type
Gothic Script (generic)
Liturgica
Book of hours
Persons
Ege, Otto F. (Fragmentator)
Places
France
Summary

...runt et fidem.../...da nobis illam sancti... (Hours of the Virgin at Sext and None). 

Written in NW France (likely for the Use of Arras or Paris) in the early 15th century. Possibly identical with the Book of Hours sold at Sotheby's London on 20 December 1948, lot 415. "The Property of a Gentleman." Dismembered by Otto or Louise Ege in the late 1940s, leaves used as no. 45 in Ege's "Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios, of which 40 were produced and 31 are known.

Record by Nicholas Checchio

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↗ UNC Greensboro Manuscripts and Special Collections
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