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Metadata

DS ID:

DS30508

Shelfmark:

ege-24

Title:

Ege leaf 24: Book of hours, England, 1300s

Book of hours

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

1300s

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Vellum (parchment)

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf; Vellum (parchment); 17.25 cm x 12.5 cm

Former Owner(s):

Ege, Otto F.

Otto Ege WIKIDATA

Note:

Script: Gothic
Decoration: foliage (motif); gold leaf; illuminations (painting); initials (layout features); line fillings; pen-flourished initials; rubrics; rules (layout features); columns (layout features);
The following text is based on the original seller's label. 24.VELLUM LEAF FROM AN ILLUMINATED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT
ENGLAND (?)
Middle XIVth Century
Latin Text
Angular Gothic Script
Book of Hours
(Horæ Beatæ Mariæ Virginis)
FROM THE COLLECTION OF OTTO F. EGE.
This particular Book of Hours, a devotional prayer book for the layman, was made for the use of Sarum, the early name for Salisbury, England
This text was accepted throughout the province of Canterbury
The manuscript was written about the time Chaucer completed his Canterbury Tales, but evidently by a French monk, who might have been attached, as was often the case, to an English monastery
Again, the book could have been specially ordered and imported from abroad
The initial letter and the coloring and the treatment of the ivy are unmistakably French
The lettering is an excellent example of the then current book hand
There are seven lines of writing to an inch
The words written in red, a heavy color made from mercury and sulphur, show almost the same degree of delicacy as those written with the more fluid ink.
Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI century

Keyword:

Books of hours

Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

http://media.library.ohio.edu/digital/collection/p15808coll19/id/107

IIIF Manifest:

https://media.library.ohio.edu/iiif/2/p15808coll19:107/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Ohio University