Friday, March 19, 2010

COLLATION---HOW IT WAS PUT TOGETHER

This particular Book of Hours is composed of 121 folios. Most pages are composed of 18 lines in a single column. There are two pages with full page miniatures. On those pages there are only four lines of text. There is also ruling on the pages to provide a frame for writing and to guide the hand of the scribe. These marks are in a very faint pink ink. This use of colored ink was common to the fifteenth century Book of Hours (Brown).

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