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  • Language: Latin. Incipit: // quorum gaudemus meritis instruamur exemplis. Explicit: utique cognouissetis et amodo cognoscetis e//[-um]. Folio range: 223r-v
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Time Period
  • Late 14th or early 15th century
Place of Origin
  • England or France
Description
  • Leaf from a late-fourteenth or early-fifteenth century breviary, produced in England or France. Other leaves from the same original manuscript were included in Otto Ege’s portfolio, "Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts." The parchment of the leaf is shrunken and discolored in the upper, outer corner.
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
  • knc_046_001
Keywords
  • England
  • Breviary
  • France
  • Illumination
  • Liturgy
  • Fragment
  • Christian
Title
  • Breviary [Fragment]
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: Detached. Classification: Leaf (untrimmed). Support material: Parchment. Extent: 1. Foliation - Pagination: Numbered "223" in modern pencil in the upper margin. Page dimensions (in mm): 104 x 68. Written area (in mm): 61 x 41. Line height (in mm): 2.9. Script: Gothic. Script type: Quadrata. Layout: One column ruled in light brown ink for twenty-one lines. Number of columns: 1. Number of lines: 21. Decoration: Two-line illuminated initials with vine tendrils in gold and green. Blue and red pen-flourished initials, and rubrication.
Language
  • Latin
Alternate Identifier
  • 73-21-44 #8 (Accession number)
  • HL 16 (Gwara Handlist Number)
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Source Metadata Identifier
  • knc_046_001
Date Created
  • 15th century
  • 14th century
Owning Institution
  • Knox College Seymour Library Special Collections. Galesburg, IL.
Provenance
  • Item donated to Knox College by Harriet Robbins Moses (1888-1973) of Salina, KS as part of a bequest through her estate in 1973. Moses graduated from Knox College in 1912. The codex from which this leaf was taken was listed for sale by Sotheby's on February 13, 1928 (lot 502). Purchased by the bookseller Thomas Thorp, Guilford, who then sold it to Otto Ege shortly thereafter, probably in 1928 (Gwara 123).
Bibliographic Citation
  • Gwara, Scott. Otto Ege’s Manuscripts. Cayce, SC: De Brailes Publishing, 2013. [Page 123]

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