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BOOK OF HOURS. illuminated manuscript on vellum.

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illuminated manuscript on vellum. [France, ?Paris, mid-15th century]. 121 x 92 mm. 146 + 1 leaves. Probably lacking a few miniatures. 14 lines (Calendar in 17 lines), written in dark brown ink in textura, between 2 verticals and 15 horizontals ruled in faint red, justification: 85 x 60 mm., rubrics in red, one- and two-line initials and line-fillers in gold on red and blue grounds with white tracery, eighteen three-line illuminated initials in blue or red patterned with white on burnished gold grounds with foliate or floral infill, ten with burnished gold three-sided bar-borders and accompanying three-quarter page borders with hairline tendrils terminating in burnished gold disks and trefoils and tiny leaves and flowers in green, blue, red and yellow, the remaining eight accompanying eight large arch-topped miniatures within single-ruled gold frames surrounded by full page-borders of similar decoration. Later calf (broken). Condition: most of the miniatures rubbed in places, three badly abraded, borders cropped throughout. Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar in red and black ff. 13r-19r Gospel Lessons ff. 19r-23v Obsecro te ff. 23v-26v O Intemerata ff. 27r- 79v Hours of the Virgin f. 80 blank (ruled in red) ff. 81r-98r Penitential Psalms and Litany ff. 98v-101v Hours of the Cross ff. 102r-105r Hours of the Holy Spirit ff. 105v-136r Office of the Dead ff. 136v-142v Quinze joies de la Vierge ff. 142v-146r Sept requêtes à notre Seigneur Illumination: The subjects of the miniatures are as follows: Fol. 13r: John on Patmos (both devil and the saint defaced) in the Garden of Gethsemane Fol. 27r: Annunciation Fol. 81r: King David Penitent Fol. 98v: Crucifixion Fol. 102r: Pentecost Fol. 105v Funeral Service Fol. 136v: Virgin and Child with Female Saints (? damaged) Fol. 147r: St. Michael with slain dragon (? Damaged, large miniature inserted out of order).

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