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Book of hours, use of Paris or Rome
Creator
Title
Book of hours, use of Paris or Rome.
Created
France, ca. 1450.
Physical Description
1 item (84 leaves) : parchment ; 183 mm x 128 mm
Language
Latin
Notes
Forms part of the Otto Ege Collection.
Layout: single column of 13 lines.
Script: gothic textualis.
Decoration: four-sided rinceaux borders on every page, many heavily decorated and with an animal (rabbit, peacock, bird (incl. chickens), cat, bear, monkey (sometimes with flask), dog). Single- and double-line initials in red, blue, and gold. Rubrication throughout.
Binding: blind-tooled modern white leather over pasteboard, embossed; gauffered. Signed by unidentified binder on inner front cover. Gilt edges.
Foliated 1-84 in modern pencil in upper right corner.
Modern manuscript title on front flyleaf: Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis ad usum Ecclesiae Parisiensis.
In Latin.
Provenance
Verso front flyleaf includes "Titelbladet Gestadt 1919." Back pastedown includes manuscript annotation describing the manuscript in Mrs. Ege's hand. Formerly owned by Otto F. Ege (Ege 5.1999). Manuscript volume was on deposit with the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA); inventory number on front flyleaf: TR 12333/2. Purchased from John M. Freudenheim, Tom Freudenheim, Jo Freudenheim, Susan Core, Richard Core, and Michael Frisch, via JSJT Holdings, LLC, 2015-2018, with Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, and the John W. Corwith Memorial Fund.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Illuminated manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, of a book of hours, use of Paris or Rome. Contains: Penitential Psalms (ff. 1r-16r), Kyrie, litany, prayers (ff. 16r-27v), Suffrages (ff. 28r-31v), Eucharistic prayers (ff. 32r-35v), Office of the Dead (36v-81v), Verses of St. Bernard (ff. 81v-84r). Perhaps use of Rome: responsories in Office of the Dead use of Rome. Imperfect: missing calendar, missing opening in psalm 6, missing one folio between ff. 27 and 28, missing one folio between ff. 31 and 32, missing one folio between ff. 35 and 36.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
March 26, 2024
Indexes/Finding aids
Finding aid available.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Books of hours.
Manuscripts, Medieval - France - 15th century.
Manuscripts.
Also listed under
Otto F. Ege collection (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
France.
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