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Image Approximate Date
ca. 1450
Creation Date
2015
Source
Accession 1500, Medieval Manuscript Collection
Description
Book of Hours (Penitential Psalms). Single folio on vellum. Northern France or Flanders, ca. 1450: 153 x 112 mm, written area 66 x 52. Single column, 12 lines. Decoration: seven initials in gold on red and blue ground infilled with white penwork, with similar line-fillers. Margin border decoration with red blossoms, green leaves, and blue and gold feathers. Text: Psalms 142.1 <veri>tate…142.7 descendentibus, the last of the Penitential Psalms. Provenance: based on dimensions, number of lines, and date this leaf may have come from a volume sold at Christie’s 5 July 1967, lot 169.
Dimensions
153 x 112 mm (written area 66 x 52)
Collection Location
Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections
Rights
Information concerning copyright must be secured in writing from the Director of the Louise Pettus Archives.
Language
Latin
Media Type
Folio
Identifier
Accession 1500- Med MS 13A
Notes
A book of hours is a Christian devotional book that was popular during the Middle Ages and is the most common type of illuminated manuscript surviving to the modern age.
