Fragmentarium
All Fragments Persons Places
  • All Fragments
  • Person Index
  • Place Index
  • About
    • Digital Laboratory
    • Past and Present
  • Partners
  • Programs
  • Publications
    • Journal: Fragmentology
    • Recent Publications
  • News + Events
    • News
    • Workshops
    • Cataloguing Courses
    • Seminars
    • News Archive
  • Contact

Document Metadata

  • Basic Metadata
  • How To Quote
  • Rights
  • Tags
  • Facets
  • Persons
  • Places

Book of Hours – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1500 CE · France, possibly Angers · 145 x 105 mm

F-rvl3

Dunedin, Dunedin Public Libraries Heritage Collection, RMM Fragment 34
Go to Overview Page

Language
Latin
Reconstruction Summary

Provenance: The Library acquired the fragment from Alfred Reed (1875 – 1975), a benefactor of the library since 1948. Reed purchased it from English bookseller Alan G. Thomas (catalogue 16 (1965), no. 12b). It came from the partially dismembered and imperfect parent manuscript (164 leaves, several mutilated) Thomas bought at the Sotheby & Co Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures sale on 6 July 1964 (lot. 246) for 280 pounds.

See reconstruction of other identified fragments https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-g81r

Contents: Psalm and Canticle of Ezechias, part of the service of Lauds in the Office of the Dead. 

Decoration: One 2-line initial in gold with brown highlights set upon striking blue ground; four versal capitals in blue or gold, pen flourished in red or black with extensions into the margins. Line filler bars alternately blue and brown embellished with fronds in gold. Marginal panel decorated with acanthus foliage in blue and gold and long-stemmed blue and gold flowers.

(R. Faunce)
Online Since
11/27/2018

Book of Hours

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1500 CE · France, possibly Angers · 145 x 105 mm

F-rvl3

Dunedin, Dunedin Public Libraries Heritage Collection, RMM Fragment 34

How to quote
Book of Hours (Fragment), Dunedin, Dunedin Public Libraries Heritage Collection, RMM Fragment 34 (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-rvl3)

IIIF Manifest URL
https://fragmentarium.ms/metadata/iiif/F-rvl3/manifest.json

Permanent link
https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-rvl3

Online Since
11/27/2018

Book of Hours – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1500 CE · France, possibly Angers · 145 x 105 mm

F-rvl3

Dunedin, Dunedin Public Libraries Heritage Collection, RMM Fragment 34

Image Rights
Image Rights

For commercial use of images: see
Terms of Use
Contact E-Mail
library@dcc.govt.nz
Online Since
11/27/2018
Century
  • 15th century
Text Language
  • Latin
Script Type
  • Gothic Script (generic)
Illuminated
  • Yes
Liturgica
  • Book of hours
Decoration
  • Brush
  • Gold and/or Silver
  • Initial
  • Line Fillers
  • Margin
  • Ornamental
  • Red
Alfred Hamish Reed, 1875-1975
  • Role: Previous Owner
  • Authority Source: VIAF
  • Biographical data:
Sotheby & Co
  • Role: Seller
  • Authority Source: VIAF
Thomas, Alan Gradon
  • Role: Seller
  • Authority Source: VIAF
  • Biographical data: 1911-1992
France
  • Role: Origin
  • Authority Source: Library of Congress

Book of Hours Hore Beate Marie Virginis

F-rvl3

Dunedin, Dunedin Public Libraries Heritage Collection, RMM Fragment 34
Overview

Canvases
  • recto
  • verso
  • Sequence
< >
recto
verso