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Book of Hours [Fragment] Public Deposited

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Contents
  • Language: Latin. Incipit: // infixe sunt michi et confirmasti super me manum tuam. Explicit: non aperiens os suum. Et //. Folio range: 71r-v
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Time Period
  • 15th century
Place of Origin
  • England or Flanders
Description
  • Leaf from a fifteenth-century Book of Hours, perhaps of English or Flemish origin. A modern hand writes "England Book of Hours 1400 A.D." at the bottom of the recto, and the leaf is referred to as "#6."
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_021_001
Keywords
  • Flanders
  • England
  • Fragment
  • Christian
  • Book of Hours
  • Pen-flourished initial
  • Devotion
Title
  • Book of Hours [Fragment]
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: Detached. Classification: Leaf (untrimmed). Support material: Parchment. Extent: 1. Foliation - Pagination: Foliated "71" in modern pencil. Page dimensions (in mm): 150 x 101. Written area (in mm): 82 x 52. Line height (in mm): 4.6. Script: Gothic. Script type: Quadrata. Layout: One column ruled in red ink for eighteen lines. Double upper and lower bounding lines. Number of columns: 1. Number of lines: 18. Decoration: Alternating blue and gold pen-flourished initials. When initials are near the edges of the written area, a single stroke of flourishing extends into the margin.
Language
  • Latin
Alternate Identifier
  • 73-21-12 (Accession number)
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Source Metadata Identifier
  • knc_021_001
Date Created
  • 15th 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.

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