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Contents
  • Language: Latin. Incipit: // conturbat me. Quia in inferno nulla est redemptio miserere mei deus et salua me. Explicit: Dimitte ergo me domine ut plangam paululum //. Folio range: [1]r-v
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Time Period
  • Mid-15th century
Place of Origin
  • France
Description
  • Leaf from a mid-fifteenth century French Book of Hours. The text comprises a section of the Office for the Dead.
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
  • eac_006_001
Keywords
  • Flanders
  • Book of Hours
  • Fragment
  • Illumination
  • Devotion
  • Border
  • Christian
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): 231 x 166. Written area (in mm): 128 x 81. Line height (in mm): 8. Script: Gothic. Script type: Quadrata. Layout: One column ruled in light red for 17 lines, double upper bounding lines. Number of columns: 1. Number of lines: 17. Decoration: Two-line illuminated initials on blue and red ground. Foliate border in outer margin. Capitals heightened with a yellow wash. Rubrication
Language
  • Latin
Alternate Identifier
  • SC_284 (Local identifier)
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Source Metadata Identifier
  • eac_006_001
Date Created
  • 15th century
Owning Institution
  • Friends Collection and College Archives. Earlham College. Richmond, IN
Provenance
  • One of three manuscript leaves gifted to Earlham College in the 1920s or 1930s by Ruby Davis, a longtime English professor who specialized in medieval literature. No information known regarding where she obtained these leaves.

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