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Contents
  • Language: Latin. Incipit: // Concede quesumus. ut supra ad horas. Explicit: Eleuatis manibus //. Folio range: [1]r-v
Rights statement
Time Period
  • Mid-14th century
Place of Origin
  • England or France
Related Work
Description
  • Leaf from a mid-fourteenth-century breviary, produced in northern France. Other leaves from the same original manuscript were included in Otto Ege’s portfolio, “Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts,” though Ege identifies the item as a Book of Hours.
Contributors
  • Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
Source Identifier
  • knc_043_001
Keywords
  • Illumination
  • England
  • Breviary
  • Liturgy
  • Christian
  • France
  • Fragment
Title
  • Breviary [Fragment]
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: Detached. Classification: Leaf (untrimmed). Support material: Parchment. Extent: 1. Page dimensions (in mm): 174 x 125. Written area (in mm): 115 x 75, column width 32mm. Line height (in mm): 3.8. Script: Gothic. Script type: Quadrata. Layout: Two columns ruled in brown ink for thirty lines. Number of columns: 2. Number of lines: 30. Decoration: Two- and three-line illuminated initials with vine tendrils. Rubrication.
Language
  • Latin
Alternate Identifier
  • HL 24 (Gwara Handlist Number)
  • 73-21-44 #5 (Accession number)
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Source Metadata Identifier
  • knc_043_001
Date Created
  • 14th century
Owning Institution
  • Knox College Seymour Library Special Collections. Galesburg, IL.
Provenance
  • Item donated to Knox College by Harriet Robbins Moses (1888-1973) of Salina, KS as part of a bequest through her estate in 1973. Moses graduated from Knox College in 1912.
Bibliographic Citation
  • Gwara, Scott. Otto Ege’s Manuscripts. Cayce, SC: De Brailes Publishing, 2013. [Page 126]

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