Folium 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.16
Location: Shelf 02/J/16c (Acc. 1994-013, Item #2)
Description
From the Medieval Folia Collection
Folium from a medieval Book of Hours
- Vellum, 96x70mm (51x40mm); true pocketbook format.
- Latin text in Gothic script (littera minuscula gothica hybrida media); ruled for single column of writing; smaller hybrida script used to indicate antiphons.
- Book of Hours, Use of Rome
- French, s. xv2 (c.1470)
- Decoration consists of the following: single gilded initial F on cusped rectilinear ground in rose and containing white-highlighted blue in-fill; alternating litterae notabiliores in red and blue; two antiphons and a single paragraphus rubricated.
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