- Title
- Book of Hours, Italy, ca. 1400
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- Date
- 1400
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- Description
- Caption: "A leaf from a Book of Hours in Latin on vellum. Gothic textura quadrata script in dark brown, ruled in purple, written in a single column of 17 lines, with a 3-line versal initial of blue and deep rose tempera on burnished gold with marginal extenders of burnished gold ivy and colored flowers, and 1-line initials of alternating burnished gold and black ink and blue and red inks. The Book of Hours was a text used for personal devotion and prayer. It incorporated the Little Offices, (groups of Psalms, prayers and biblical excerpts, etc.) and was modeled after the Canonical Hours of Breviary."
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- Format Extent
- 1 vellum leaf; 14 x 10 cm
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- Subject
- Books of Hours--Illustrations; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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- Collection
- Bruce Ferrini Liturgical Manuscript Leaf Collection, Collection Number 025
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- Type
- ["Manuscripts"]
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- Geographic Location
- Italy
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- Language
- lat
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