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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