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Metadata

DS ID:

DS30513

Shelfmark:

ege-29

Title:

Ege leaf 29: Book of hours, France, 1400s

Book of hours

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1400s

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Vellum (parchment)

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf; Vellum (parchment); 18.5 cm x 13.5 cm

Former Owner(s):

Ege, Otto F.

Otto Ege WIKIDATA

Note:

Script: Gothic
Decoration: flowers (motif); foliage (motif); gold leaf; illuminations (painting); initials (layout features); marginal illustrations; rubrics; rules (layout features); long-line format;
The following text is based on the original seller's label. 29. VELLUM LEAF FROM AN ILLUMINATED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT
FRANCE
Middle XVth Century
Latin Text
Angular Gothic Script
Book of Hours
(Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis)
FROM THE COLLECTION OF OTTO F. EGE.
It is generally no great task to assign these illuminated Books of Hours to a particular country or period
The treatment of the ivy spray with the single line stem and rather sparse foliage is characteristic of the work of the French monastic scribes about the year 1450
The occasional appearance of the strawberry indicates that the illuminating was done by a Benedictine monk
Fifty years earlier the stem would have been wider and colored, and the foliage rich
fifty years later the ivy and holly leaves would be entangled with flowers and acanthus foliage.
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/131

IIIF Manifest:

https://media.library.ohio.edu/iiif/2/p15808coll19:131/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Ohio University