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  • Author: Catholic Church ** Language: Latin. Incipit: antiphona favus distilans labia tua sponsa et odor vestimentorum tuorum sicut odor thuris. Explicit: inter ubera mea commorabitur Botrus cypri. dilectus meus mihi in uineis engadi //. Folio range: [1]r-v
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Time Period
  • 14th century
Place of Origin
  • England or Northern France
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Description
  • Leaf from a breviary, produced in France in the fourteenth century. Text comprises readings from the Song of Songs in celebration of the Assumption of Mary (August 15). Other leaves from this breviary were later included in Otto Ege's portfolio, “Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts.”
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
  • mma_012_001
Keywords
  • Liturgy
  • France
  • Illumination
  • Border
  • England
  • Rinceau
  • Breviary
  • Fragment
  • Christian
Title
  • Breviary [Fragment]
Author
  • Catholic Church
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: Detached. Classification: Leaf (untrimmed). Support material: Parchment. Extent: 1. Page dimensions (in mm): 172 x 129. Written area (in mm): 117 x 74, column width 31mm. Line height (in mm): 3.9. Script: Gothic. Script type: Quadrata. Layout: Two columns, ruled in light brown ink for 30 lines. Number of columns: 2. Number of lines: 30. Decoration: Five-line illuminated initial in light red, orange, and blue, with white accents. Alternating 2-line blue and light red initials on an illuminated ground, with white accents. Full illuminated, rinceau bar border in light red, orange, and blue. Illuminated paraph with blue flourishing. Line fillers in blue and gold. Rubrication.
Language
  • Latin
Alternate Identifier
  • HL 24 (Gwara Handlist Number)
  • 37.1064 (Olim Accession number)
  • 1937.13 (Accession number)
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Source Metadata Identifier
  • mma_012_001
Date Created
  • 15th century
  • 14th century
Owning Institution
  • Muskegon Museum of Art. Muskegon, MI.
Provenance
  • The Muskegon Museum of Art purchased this leaf from Otto F. Ege, Cleveland, OH. Accessioned May 1937. A note in pencil in the lower margin of the recto identifies this as a Book of Hours produced in England in 1350 A.D.
Bibliographic Citation
  • Gwara, Scott. Otto Ege’s Manuscripts. Cayce, SC: De Brailes Publishing, 2013. [Pp. 126-7]

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