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Denise Poncher before a Vision of Death

The text is from the prayer "Obsecro te" (I beseech thee). It begins mid prayer.

Fourteen lines of text written in Gothic script on both the recto and verso beginning below top line. Lined in red.

The border is composed of a rectangle with a…

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…

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…

Text is from the Office of the Dead at Matins, first nocturne, first lesson (Job 7) and the beginning of the second lesson (Job 10). Gothic script of varying size with decorated initial on verso.

Decorative side border on recto includes geometric…

Office of the Dead, First Nocturn of Matins. Psalm 12 from verse 3 onwards with responses, followed by beginning of the first lesson, from Job 7:16-21 (Parce mihi . . .). Manuscript on parchment. 1 folio, 14 lines. Ruled in red with text in Northern…

Matins, Hours of the Virgin. Psalm 94 with responses, followed by the first two stanzas of the hymn O quam glorifica luce coruscas.  Text is consecutive with leaf held by the Cleveland Public Library. Digitized image of manuscript on parchment leaf,…

Litany of the Saints, male martyrs followed by bishops and confessors, St. Stephen through St. Martin. The list of martyrs is notable for the inclusion of saints principally venerated in Troyes: St. Patroclus and St. Savinian. Other saints of…

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…

Book of Hours, Suffrages. Includes portion of Saint John the Baptist, Saint John the Evangelist, and portion of Saints Peter and Paul. 1 folio, 14 lines on both recto and verso. Recto and Verso show visible sewing holes, with the parchment attached…