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Book of Hours The Litanies. Text begins with the lengthy invocation to Holy Mary ("virgo virginum") followed by those to Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel, Saint Raphael, all the Holy Angels and Archangels, John the Baptist, all the Holy Patriarchs and…

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This leaf is a Gothic Script. It contains the conclusion of a prayer to Mary and the beginning of another. This leaf is most likely from the introductory prayers to the hours of the Virgin. There are 13 lines of text on the recto and 14 lines of…

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Denise Poncher before a Vision of Death

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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…

University of South Carolina
Suffrage of the saints from a book of hours starting in the recto begins in the middle of the text for Saint Catherine, and on the verso are prayers to the good angel "du bon ange" and the cross. Gothic font.
The borders on these leaves come in two…

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Hours of the Virgin, Matins. As said during Ordinary Time. Near the beginning of the Hymn Te Deum, also known as Hymn of Saints Ambrose and Augustine.

Parchment. 1 leaf, not bound. 14 lines. 1 column. Ruled. Speckling on recto suggests it is the…

Kent State University Recto
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…

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Page of the Hours of Virgin, Matins, Psalm 94. Occurs before the three nocturnes and begins on the fifth word of the psalm. Written in Gothic script and rubricated with initials in gold, red, blue and white. Same colors used in the line fillings,…

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Recto side of ms leaf, Psalm 119 in a Book of Hours. Begins at "..linguam dolosam" and ends at "...pugnabant me gratis." Part of the Hours of the Virgin, in Terce.
The page has three larger initials and is decorated in blue, red and gold.…

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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…
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