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Book of Hours – Fragment

Parchment · 1 fragment · 1450 – 1500 CE · 172 x 114 mm

F-ruaz

Sydney, The University of Sydney Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, Add. Ms. 9
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Book of Hours (Fragment), Sydney, The University of Sydney Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, Add. Ms. 9 (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-ruaz)
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Century
15th century
Text Language
Latin
Script Type
Hybrid Script
Liturgica
Book of hours
Persons
Berckelman, Colin B (Previous Owner)
Summary

Provenance: The Library acquired the fragment in 1966 from the estate of Sydney photographer and bibliophile Colin B. Berckelman. Prior ownership not known.

Text: Part of the Litany of Saints, invoking selected apostles, disciples, martyrs, pontiffs, doctors of the church, confessors, and priests, following to female saints (incipit Sancte iacobe ora pro nobis - explicit Sancta agnes).

Script: The manuscript is written in a hybrid Gothic bookhand known as bastarda, bâtarde and sometimes called lettre bourguignonne. Initials and line fillers alternating red and blue.

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