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• Title:[Book of hours (Ms. University of British Columbia Library. BX2080.A2 1430)]
  [Book of hours].
  
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• Corporate Author/Creator:Catholic Church.
  
• Published/Created:[Rouen, France], [between 1430? and 1440?]
  

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  • Call Number: BX2080 .A2 1430
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions.
  Books of hours--France--Rouen.
  Books of hours--Texts--Early works to 1800.
  Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
  Illumination of books and manuscripts, French.
  
• Description:106 leaves, that is, 216 pages (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, colour illustrations ; 18 cm
  
• Notes:Manuscript book of hours for the use of Rouen (including Calendar, Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, and other prayers); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, approximately 1430-1440.
  Decoration: 4 large and 2 full-page miniatures with full borders, small illuminated initials and line-fillers.
  Artist: in the style of the Master of Sir John Fastolf, active in Rouen from approximately 1420 to 1449.
  Binding: nineteenth century blind-stamped brown leather binding, with spine repaired and metal fittings added.
  Text and illumination on both sides of leaves. Verso of last leaf blank. Leaves numbered in pencil by a previous owner, but two leaves missed, thus pencilled leaf numbering ends at 106 instead of 108.
  Title supplied by cataloguer.
  Latin and Middle French; textura.