DPL Reed MMF33

Book of Hours, Latin. France (Paris), late fifteenth century

Single leaf. 150 by 112mm. Single column, 19 lines, ruled in red ink, written space 98 by 65mm; gothic liturgical hand.

Text: Part of Matins for the Office of the Dead.
Decoration: Two 2-line initials in burnished gold on red and blue grounds with white tracery; headings in red.
Provenance: From an imperfect Book of Hours sold from the estate of John Francis Neylan (1885–1960) of San Francisco, at Sotheby's, 18 June 1962, lot 121, to the Folio Society. Purchased from Folio catalogue 14 (April 1963), no. 174.
References: Manion, Vines, de Hamel no. 95; Reed Early Bibles no. 52.
Shelfmark: RMM Fragment 33.

Description reproduced from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections (London, 1989) by permission of the authors (Christopher de Hamel, Margaret Manion, and the family of Vera F. Vines).