Title

Book of Hours: Number 29

Authors

Unknown

Contributor

Stephen Mack; Benedictine Monks.

Description

Spots have developed on the manuscript, one hole.; Decorative flowers along the side of the writing.; Angular Gothic Script; Several historiated initials in gold, surrounded by blocks of red and blue, spiralling white filigree on top.; Floral images. The thin style of the images is indicative of work from around the 1450s. Ege notes that older manuscripts had wider stems and late manuscripts and the leaves would have been more entangled.; Ege notes that the strawberries are indicative of Benedictine worship.; Along left side of writing on verso and recto.; Black, red, blue, and green inks

Description Recto

Use of Rome? Hours of the Cross, starting at Nones, through Vespers and Compline, and then (at the very bottom of the verso) on to the next part of the Book of Hours, the Hours of the Holy Spirit.; Flesh Side

Provenance

Purchased from Otto F. Ege

Format Medium

Vellum

Format Extent

18 cm x 13.5 cm

Files

Relation Is Part Of

Otto F. Ege's "50 Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts"

Date Digitized

April 2007

Coverage-Spatial

France

Coverage-Temporal

Mid 1400s

Recommended Citation

Unknown, "Book of Hours: Number 29" (2014). Medieval Manuscripts. 5.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/mdvlmanuscripts/5