Book of Hours (Use of Paris)
Litany
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Cincinnati, OH, The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 9), no. 30
Simmons School of Library and Information Science (Boston, Massachusetts) LIS 464 (Fall 2017) observations (Printed, Handwritten, or Typescript)
Original Condition
Page Height
180 – 185 mm
Page Width
125 – 130 mm
Height of Written Area
90 mm
Width of Written Area
60 mm
Number of Columns
1
Number of Lines
14
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Persons:
Both sides of the fragment have been decorated on the three outer margins with rinceaux in blues, reds, and gold. There are no acanthus leaves but the rinceaux has taken over the entire margin. Initials and line fillers all contain red, blue, and gold and change color combination on each line. The line fillers also have scratchings within them.
Content
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Content Item
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Content Description
List of saints including St. Peter Celestine and St. Eufemia
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Content Description
History
Provenance
Offered by Bernard Quaritch cat. 240 (1905), no. 230 and cat. 290 (1910), no. 253; Sold by Quaritch to C. L. Ricketts in 1922; C. L. Ricketts, in S. de Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada I:634, no. 116; Sold by Parke-Bernet Galleries, 23 February 1939, lot 217; Dismembered by Otto Ege or an associate; Leaves used as No. 30 in Ege’s “Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts” portfolio; Aquired by Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (OH) at an unknown date