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
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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
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