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Book of Hours [Fragment] Public Deposited

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Contents
  • Language: Latin. Incipit: // eius aut filius hominis quoniam visitas eum. Explicit: Desiderabilia super aurum et lapidem preciosum multum et dulciora super mel et //. Folio range: [1]r-v
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Time Period
  • 15th century
Place of Origin
  • France
Description
  • Leaf from a fifteenth-century Book of Hours produced in France. Section of text from the Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Matins). Includes Psalm 8:5-10 and Psalm 18:1-11. A small hole in the lower, outside corner of the leaf was once mended with thread, which has since been lost.
Call Number
  • 174/18
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
  • iwu_004_001
Keywords
  • Fragment
  • Illumination
  • Christian
  • Book of Hours
  • Devotion
  • Pen-flourished initial
  • France
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): 177 x 127. Written area (in mm): 120 x 70. Line height (in mm): 5.5. Script: Gothic. Script type: Quadrata. Layout: One column ruled in light brown for twenty lines with single bounding lines extending vertically and horizontally into the margins. Number of columns: 1. Number of lines: 20. Decoration: Two-line illuminated initial on recto. Alternating blue and gold pen-flourished initials with red and black flourishing, respectively.
Language
  • Latin
Alternate Identifier
  • Schultz leaf (Item title)
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Source Metadata Identifier
  • iwu_004_001
Date Created
  • 15th century
Owning Institution
  • Illinois Wesleyan University Ames Library Tate Archives & Special Collections. Bloomington, IL.
Provenance
  • This leaf was donated to Illinois Wesleyan University in the late 1990s by June Schultz (IWU class of 1944), daughter of William Eben Schulz. W. E. Schulz was a long time English faculty member at IWU, and this leaf was donated along with a range of other items from his private collection.

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