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Book of Hours [Fragment] Public Deposited

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Contents
  • Language: Latin. Incipit: // dat pro nobis ad dominum. Explicit: quos redemisti gaudiis. Tu autem. Responsus //. Folio range: [1]r-v
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Time Period
  • Circa 1325
Place of Origin
  • Picardy, France
Description
  • A leaf from a Book of Hours, probably from Picardy, circa 1325. Two inhabited initials, one of a crowned woman's head on the recto and the other of a man's head on the verso.
Call Number
  • SPX Manuscript Collection ND3355.C655 1150a
Contributors
  • Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
Source Identifier
  • niu_002_001
Keywords
  • Illumination
  • France
  • Inhabited initial
  • Devotion
  • Fragment
  • Christian
  • Book of Hours
Title
  • Book of Hours [Fragment]
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: Detached. Classification: Leaf (untrimmed). Support material: Parchment. Extent: 1. Page dimensions (in mm): 157 x 117. Written area (in mm): 94 x 68. Line height (in mm): 6.7. Script: Gothic. Script type: Quadrata. Layout: One column, ruled in brown for fourteen lines, double bounding lines in the upper, lower, and outer margins. Number of columns: 1. Number of lines: 14. Decoration: Two- and one-line illuminated and inhabited initials with vine tendrils in red, blue, orange, green, and white in the margins. Rubrication.
Language
  • Latin
Alternate Identifier
  • Book of Hours, Picardy, France, circa 1325 AD (Institutional item title)
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Source Metadata Identifier
  • niu_002_001
Date Created
  • 14th century
Owning Institution
  • Northern Illinois University Special Collections and Archives Department. DeKalb, IL.
Provenance
  • Part of the NIU Collection of Leaves from Medieval European Christian Texts. Sold by Phillip J. Pirages (Catalogue 47, number 25). Purchased by Northern Illinois University in 2003.
Bibliographic Citation
  • Phillip J. Pirages. Catalogue Forty-Seven. McMinnville, OR: P.J. Pirages, 2002. [item 25]

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