Leaf from a Book of Hours, Fragment
Type: Fragment
Date: 15th century
Setting: City
Produced By/For: [unknown]
Contents: Devotional: Book of Hours
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.11
Location: Drawer 5A/08 (Acc. 1992-045, Item #4)
Description
From the Manuscript Paleography Collection
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, France, c.1425-1450
- 195 x 140mm, on vellum, in Latin
- single leaf from a manuscript produced in France for export to England or sale to English customers abroad
- apparatus in red
- small pen-flourished initials in blue and red and gold and black
- four larger decorated initials in gold, pink and blue
- contemporary corrections to text
- two prayers erased in lower half of verso of leaf
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