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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS30512
- Shelfmark:
- ege-28
- Title:
- Ege leaf 28: Book of hours, France, 1400s
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- 1400s
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- Vellum (parchment)
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf; Vellum (parchment); 15 cm x 10.25 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Ege, Otto F.
- Note:
- Script: Gothic
Decoration: flowers (motif); foliage (motif); gold leaf; illuminations (painting); initials (layout features); line fillings; long-line format; marginal illustrations; rubrics; rules (layout features);
The following text is based on the original seller's label. 28. VELLUM LEAF FROM AN ILLUMINATED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT
NORTHERN FRANCE
middle XVth century
Latin text
angular Gothic script
Book of hours (Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis)
FROM THE COLLECTION OF OTTO F. EGE.
This Book of Hours shows definite characteristics of the manuscript art of France and the Netherlands of about 1450 A.D. It was probably one of many copies prepared for sale at a shrine to which devout pilgrims came to worship or to seek a cure
The spiked letters and the detached ornamental bar are unmistakably Flemish in spirit, while the free ivy sprays are distinctly French
The burnished metal in the decorations shows the use of alloyed gold (oro di metà) as well as silver
Various metals were added in different localities to the fine gold
English illuminations frequently had a decided orange hue, while the French had a lemon caSt.The quality of the gold was best enhanced by the use of burnishing tools equipped with an emerald, a topaz, or a ruby
Less successful burnishers contained an agate or the tooth of a wolf, a horse, or a dog.
Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI century - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- http://media.library.ohio.edu/digital/collection/p15808coll19/id/3
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://media.library.ohio.edu/iiif/2/p15808coll19:3/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
