Book of Hours (Edinburgh, Edinburgh UL, MS 42)
Item
Title
Book of Hours (Edinburgh, Edinburgh UL, MS 42)
Contains reference to Birgitta
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Language
Latin
Forms part of
Work order
2
Carries work
Production date
1400-1499
Location created
Hand
A Gothic hand with laterally compressed letters. The insertions (noted as they occur in the Contents) are by various Scottish hands.
Decoration
Verse initials: alternately blue and red and gold and black filigree.
Psalm initials: two line, burnished gold on grounds of blue and lake.
sectional initials: five line, floriated in blue, lake, vermilion, and green, on grounds of burnished gold and colour, combined with full borders.
Line-endings: blue and gold scroll.
Borders: surrounding the miniatures and enclosing the first page of each section. These last seem to be imitations both of French and English work of the 15th century. The broad bands of conventional foliage or pleated spiral design are English in type, while the feathery branch work of gold ivy-leaf or roundel combined with flowers and fruit seem as typically French.
None of the work is of the best quality, and it resembles the hybrid work of Scottish books of the period
Psalm initials: two line, burnished gold on grounds of blue and lake.
sectional initials: five line, floriated in blue, lake, vermilion, and green, on grounds of burnished gold and colour, combined with full borders.
Line-endings: blue and gold scroll.
Borders: surrounding the miniatures and enclosing the first page of each section. These last seem to be imitations both of French and English work of the 15th century. The broad bands of conventional foliage or pleated spiral design are English in type, while the feathery branch work of gold ivy-leaf or roundel combined with flowers and fruit seem as typically French.
None of the work is of the best quality, and it resembles the hybrid work of Scottish books of the period
Writing support
Parchment
Number of lines
16
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