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Homiliary

about 1300–50
Medium/TechniqueTempera, ink, and pencil (modern) on parchment; bindings of calf or deerskin over boards
DimensionsOverall (page dimensions): 12.3 x 9.2 cm (4 13/16 x 3 5/8 in.)
Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession number09.329
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
Collections
InscriptionsSixteenth-century inscription (most illegible, but possibly in English), on flyleaf verso.
ProvenanceBy 1909, with Dr. Denman W. Ross (1853-1935), Cambridge, MA; 1909, gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross. (Accession date: August 26, 1909)
Detail: folio 39, recto
Saint Augustine
mid-13th century
View: f.1
16th century with 18th–century A.D.ditions
Detail: folio 1, verso
late 13th century
Book of Hours (variant of Use of Paris, and Use of Rome)
probably 1275–1300 (France), with additions in 1350–1400 (Italy)
Detail: folio 1, recto
mid-13th century
Full view, open position
Ludolf von Sachsen
about 1450–75