Extent: fols. 67; parchment; 150 x 110 (140 x 100) mm
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Layout: 14 lines Script: In Gothic script, red and brown ink Decoration: 65 large initials and hundreds of small initials and filler bars illuminated in red-violet, blue, orange, white, and gilt; the large initials with vine endings extending into the margins. Binding: Bound in 20th-century red leather, block-printed endpapers. Spine title "Horae B. Mariae." Lacking all preliminaries, a large portion of the text, and all of any of several miniatures usually found in complete books of hours. Collation: iv (paper) + I-II^1 (singletons), III^2 (wants 1), IV^8 (wants 1), V^6-8 (wants 1-2 bifolia in center of quire), VI^2, VII^6, VIII-XI^8, XI^1, XII-XIII^2 Provenance: Gift of Sally Carlton Foote in memory of her father William Newnham Chattin Carlton, 1980. Origin: French execution (lacking calendar so use needs to be identified by prayers) First line: Beata es virgo maria dei genitrix.
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