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[MANUSCRIPT HOURS]. Book of Hours for use in Rome. Mid-15th-century manuscript in one volume, in-8° (123 x 173 mm), comprising 134 calligraphic parchment folios, red velvet, gilt edges (18th-century binding). ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF HOURS WITH FOURTEEN ILLUMINATED PAGES, INCLUDING SIX LARGE MINIATURES. Contents ff. 1–12v: calendar (in French); ff. 13–18v: pericopes from the four Gospels; ff. 19 to 22v: “Obsecro te” […]; ff. 27v to 28: Antiphons to the Blessed Virgin; ff. 29–39r: Hours of the Blessed Virgin; ff. 39v–84r: Lauds; Terce (f. 57v), Prime (f. 53v), None, Vespers (f. 65v), Compline (f. 68), Sext; ff. 84v to 88v: Psalms and Litany of the Saints; ff. 92–123: offices and prayers; ff. 124–133: The Fifteen Joys of Our Lady (in French); ff. 133v to 134: The Fifteen Joys of Our Lady (in French); Illustrations SIX LARGE MINIATURES: ƒ. 13: miniature with four small panels (the four Evangelists); ƒ. 29: King David in prayer; ƒ. 53: The Nativity; ƒ. 92: Pentecost; ƒ. 95: the Mass for the Dead; ƒ. 125v: the Descent from the Cross. Text • A ruled manuscript with fifteen lines per page ; • numerous illuminated initials on a red or blue background ; rubrics. ƒf. 72, 133v, and 134 are unilluminated and contain prayers in French. f. 89v is blank; one miniature is missing between ff. 89 and 90.
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