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Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours" – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1475 CE · France (Northern) · 195 x 142 (85 x 62) mm

F-1fi8

Miami, FL, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 88.0161
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Language
Latin, French
Reconstruction Summary

prospere procede et regna.../...nobis pia virgo maria. amen. Page from the Hours of the Virgin; Matins, third nocturne, lectio vii. From a fifteenth-century Book of Hours known as the St. Alexis Hours. Full border of acanthus and rinceaux in gold and colors. Roundel miniature in the outer central margin of recto and verso. Recto: A man wearing a red shirt and a blue hat, standing in a forest, holding a brown sack; Verso: A man in a red tunic is sitting on the left, while a man in a blue tunic and a crown  is facing him from the right. He is labeled b(???)t. Dismembered in the 1980s. This leaf acquired by the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami. Part of a resequencing project by students in Lisa Fagin Davis' Fall 2025 Simmons University School of Library and Information Science (Boston, Massachusetts) course, "The Medieval Manuscript: from Charlemagne to Gutenberg" (LIS 464): Audrey Stewart.

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12/08/2025

Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours"

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1475 CE · France (Northern) · 195 x 142 (85 x 62) mm

F-1fi8

Miami, FL, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 88.0161

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Online Since
12/08/2025

Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours" – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1475 CE · France (Northern) · 195 x 142 (85 x 62) mm

F-1fi8

Miami, FL, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 88.0161

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Century
  • 15th century
Text Language
  • French
  • Latin
Script Type
  • Northern Textualis
Liturgica
  • Book of hours
France
  • Role: Origin
  • Authority Source: Library of Congress

Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours" The Hours of the Virgin: Matins, third nocturne, lectio vii

F-1fi8

Miami, FL, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 88.0161
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