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Detail of capital S initials stacked together from the verso of the folio at Case Western Reserve University.

Detail of capital T initial from the verso of the folio at Lima Public Library.

Hours of the Virgin, Matins, conclusion of the Te Deum.  Consecutive with leaf held by Smith College.  Gothic script, 14 lines, below top margin;  Rubricated letters "An" on verso, line 14; decorated initials and line fillers in gold, red, and blue.…

Illuminated miniature of Pentecost. Annotation: 1490 AD, Flanders, Book of Hours, Pentecost or descent of the Holy Spirit.

This miniature may have originally been part of Ege FOL 47.

Text in center of miniature is from the Office of the…

Miniature: Vigil of the Office of the Dead.

The leaf comes from Lauds of the Office of the Dead. "Laudate eum omnes angeli ejus laudate eum omnes virtutes ejus" starts off Psalm 148. There are several boxed in, illuminateded letters and the text is Latin, written in Gothic script. There are…

Office of the Dead, end of Third Nocturn of Matins and beginning of Lauds, Antiphons and Psalm 50.

Incipit: -audi exaudi me ut animam meam
Explicit: dilexisti incerta et occulta

Recto begins with end of "Creator omnium" at the end of the…

Marian Prayer from a Book of Hours for a woman. Gothic script from late 15th Century.
The prayer is uncommon and unable to be definitively identified.
The illustrations on the recto and verso are mirror images of each other, implying that the…

Book of Hours, Office of the Dead, Lauds. Recto includes part of the first antiphon and the second antiphon for Psalm 66, then the Song of Ezechias (Isaiah 38), which continues onto the verso. The second antiphon, on the second line, breaks up the…