Text set / Latin book of hours manuscript leaf with illuminated initial

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Title: Latin book of hours manuscript leaf with illuminated initial
Alternative Title: Recto incipit: Requiem at Aposta inferi: Crue
Contributor: Catholic Church
Date Created and/or Issued: approximately 1450
Contributing Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
Collection: Historical Artifacts Collection
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Script: Written in Gothic liturgical script, black and red ink on faint red ruling.
Scope/Content: Simple line decorations in the left margin of recto; versal initials alternate in gold and blue with contrasting penwork; large initial (two-line) illuminated A in burnished gold on a background of grisaille with white tracery.
Scope/Content: Some red marks visible in margins around verso initial.
Scope/Content: Verso incipit: Attenuati sunt occuli mei, suscipien.
Scope/Content: Verso explicit: ebus vite nostre in domo domini.
Scope/Content: Layout: 15 lines of text on recto, 20 lines of text on verso.
Scope/Content: Small holes throughout; some soiling.
Scope/Content: Recto contains prayers and the incipits for Psalms 148-150. Verso contains the Canticle of Hezekias from Isaiah 38:14-20, part of the offices for Tuesday Laude.
Type: text
Format: Vellum; 160 x 112 mm
Form/Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--France
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
books of hours
Extent: 1 unnumbered leaf (that is, 2 unnumbered pages)
Identifier: ark:/86086/n2vd71hn
BX2080 .C377 1450
991010640279704706
31210021408644
UCR017
Language: Latin
lat
Subject: Bible--Psalms, XIX-XX--Latin
Bible--Psalms--Commentaries
Place: Paris (France)
Provenance: Sold by Mackus Company Illuminated Manuscripts, Fairlawn, Ohio.

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