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Book of Hours [fragment]
- Date
- 1450-1500
- Reference
- MSRF-08
- Description
Leaf is from the Calendar of a Book of Hours, for the month of August.
Executed in France in the second half of the 15th century.
Physical Description: Vellum, single leaf. 168 x 128 mm. Single column, 17 lines, ruled in red, written space 95 x 57mm, written in black and red in a gothic liturgical hand.
Finding Aids: Manion, M.M. Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in New Zealand collections, no. 160..
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- Illuminated manuscripts, Parchment, Partial documents, Vellum, single leaf. 168 x 128 mm., Single column, 17 lines, ruled in red, written space 95 x 57mm, written in black and red in a gothic liturgical hand., Decoration: Five initials in burnished gold on red and blue grounds with white tracery; panel borders of coloured acanthus sprays and tiny gold and coloured leaves on hairline stems.
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