(Q42894)

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Book of Hours, Sarum and Utrecht uses, adapted for York use
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Illuminations (paintings)--15th century
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Latin and some English
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between 1400 and 1450
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Extent: ff. i + 149 + i : parchment ; 100 x 140 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Formal gothic script.
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Part 1. Span folios: ff. 1-117v. Layout: Many leaves out of correct sequence or excised, some surviving catchwords and leaf signatures allow a partial collation; 16 long lines ruled in purple ink, or occasionally brown, with single verticals and horizontals extending the full width and height of the page. Script: Formal gothic script. Decoration: One 10-line historiated initial (f. 19...
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Part 2. Span folios: ff. 118-148v. Layout: Quires of eight leaves, the final blank cancelled, with catchwords on decorative scrolls, and leaf signatures. 16 long lines ruled in red ink, but one quire in brown, with single verticals, and the top two and bottom two horizontals ruled the full width and height of the page. Other Decoration: Some elaborate cadels on top line ascenders or bottom...
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/2/2009.
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Written apparently in Utrecht, to judge by the script, decoration, Office of the Dead and some of the original red feasts in the calendar; apparently for an English owner, to judge by the Sarum Use of the Office of the Virgin and the English saints in the calendar. John Newsom (?) of the parish of Whitkirk in Yorkshire (? see below), by 1417 according to an entry in the calendar at 17 March...
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Leaf 19 (the opening of Prime in the Hours of the Virgin) acquired in Sept. 2021 and housed in box with this item.
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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