12022-10-20T20:28:44-07:00Elizabeth Palomino97f5cc41f822c98012020ee3f1612be0c7950d52406361plain2022-10-20T20:28:45-07:00Elizabeth Palomino97f5cc41f822c98012020ee3f1612be0c7950d52A book, used for private Biblical devotions. It often includes the private devotions from the book of Psalms known as a psalter. The majority of these books are illuminated, with scenes from the life of Jesus, depictions of the apostles, martyrs, and saints. The text entered into popular use by the end of the twelfth century and continued in general use until the sixteenth century.
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1media/MS_9-2-4_recto_014.jpg2022-10-20T14:02:13-07:00MS 9/2:432plain12520612022-12-10T12:32:23-08:00 Title:Book of Hours Number of Texts: 1 Language: Latin Script: Gothic Country: France Century: 15th Searchable Date Range: 1425-1450 Description:
f. 1, 1 leaf
Parchment - 183 x 123 mm - 14 long lines ruled in red ink
Other Decoration:
3-sided border of black vines with sepals
leaves, and flowers in red, blue, gold, green
1-line initials and line fillers in gold on red/blue with whitetracery
red rubrication
2-line initial in gold with red and blue on blue background
Notes:
Pencil foliation “40”
Contains Psalms 44-45 (incomplete)
f. 1r Reverse C--shaped border with pale green leaves and face-on flat 4-petalled flowers
12022-10-20T15:12:05-07:00MS 9/2:4 Otto Ege13plain2022-11-25T06:25:10-08:00Drypoint etchingCleveland Museum of ArtPaul B. Travis The Book-Breaker
MS 9/2:4 is a parchment leaf that was removed from a Book of Hours in the 20th century by Otto F. Ege (1888-1951.) Ege was the Dean of the Cleveland Institute of Art and lecturer on the History of the Book at Western Reserve University. He was a self-proclaimed “biblioclast,” or book-breaker, dispersing leaves from hundreds of damaged and incomplete manuscripts to American institutions from 1917 - 1950. Ege argued that book breaking allowed individuals and small institutions access to fragments at a lower cost.
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