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.17
Location: Shelf 02/J/16c (Acc. 1994-013, Item #3)
Description
From the Medieval Folia Collection
Folium from a medieval Book of Hours
- Vellum, 144x98mm (88x55mm)
- Latin text in "Batarde" script (littera cursiva bastarda formata); ruled in red pencil for a single column of writing; smaller "Batarde" script used to indicate responses and antiphons.
- Book of Hours
- French (Tours?); s. xviin (c.1500)
- Decoration consists of the following: a single initial H painted in gold ona blue rectilinear ground; litterae notabiliores washed in yellow; rubricated response and antiphon.
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