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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-bbex

Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Pucket IM-1489
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Language
Latin
Reconstruction Summary

...ctum vocabitur filius dei.../...scriptum est per prophetam [et tu...]. The end of the Gospel Reading for St. Luke and the beginning of the Gospel Reading for St. Matthew, from a fifteenth-century Book of Hours known as the St. Alexis Hours. Full border of acanthus and rinceaux in gold and colors with birds and other creatures. Roundel miniature in the outer central margin of recto and verso. Recto: St. Matthew writing, dipping his quill into an inkwell held by an angel; Verso: Magi before Herod enthroned. Dismembered in the 1990s. This leaf offered by Charles Puckett Rare Books, stock number IM-1489, current location unknown.

(Lisa Fagin Davis)
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  • Simmons School of Library and Information Science LIS 464 (Fall 2025) observations
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Online Since
12/06/2025

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-bbex

Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Pucket IM-1489

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Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours" (Fragment), Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Pucket IM-1489 (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-bbex)

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Online Since
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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-bbex

Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Pucket IM-1489

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Online Since
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Century
  • 15th century
Text Language
  • Latin
Script Type
  • Northern Textualis
Illuminated
  • Yes
Liturgica
  • Book of hours

Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours" Gospel Readings for St. Luke and St. Matthew

F-bbex

Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Pucket IM-1489
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  • 1489v
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Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours", Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Pucket IM-1489
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