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Vellum leaf from 15th century Book of Hours

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Title	Vellum leaf from 15th century Book of Hours
Ege number	46
Supplied description (transcript)	46. VELLUM LEAF FROM AN ILLUMINATED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT. NORTHERN FRANCE; Late XVth Century. Latin Text; Gothic Script. Book of Hours. (Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis). FROM THE COLLECTION OF OTTO F. EGE. The Book of Hours, the prayer book of the laity, usually contains 16 sections. The section on prayers to the Virgin is the most important and most used, and its manuscripts exceed in number all other XVth century religious texts. The laymen who ordered and purchased these books would at times stipulate the style of ornament and the amount of burnished gold to be used, and could even, to a certain extent, select the saints they esteemed most and wished to glorify. In this example, the border reveals by its wayside flowers entangled with the heavy acanthus motif of the North and by the use of the "wash" gold that it was executed in Northern France about 1475 A.D.
Previous owner	Ege, Otto F.
Country of origin	France
Creation period	ca 15th century, late
Features	borders (ornament areas) chrysography flower (motif) foliage (motif) illuminations (painting) inhabited initials initials (layout features) line fillings marginal illustrations rubrics rules (layout features)
Page material	vellum (parchment)
Script type	Gothic
Columns	1
Size	16.25 cm x 12 cm
Identifier	ege_46_northern-france_book-hours
Source text	Book of Hours
Collection	Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI century
Catalog record	http://alice.library.ohiou.edu:80/record=b1435763~S7
Leaf/ page number(s)	101-102
Language	Latin
DC resource type	text
Rights	Public domain
Provenance	Otto F. Ege acquired the text that once included this leaf during the early 20th century. An art educator and “book-breaker,” Ege dismembered much of his collection of medieval manuscript books over the course of his career and sold the individual leaves in portfolios containing fifty leaves each. Ohio University Libraries purchased portfolio no. 5 (out of a total of 40 portfolios produced).
Collection contact	Miriam Intrator (intrator@ohio.edu)

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