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Portion of a prayer to the Virgin (Sancta Maria dei genetrix mitissima per amorem unigeniti filii tui . . .). Text is consecutive with leaf held by the Cincinnati Public Library. Digitized images of manuscript on parchment. 1 folio,14 lines. Recto is…

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…

This entry provides a complete description of a late 15th century French Book of Hours to be offered for sale. Research conducted through the Schoenberg Manuscript Database and Seymour DeRicci's Census of Medieval Manuscripts in the United States and…

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…

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,…

Office of the Dead, Matins. Conclusion of Psalm 94 with responses, followed by beginning of First Nocturn ("et dixit semper hii errant corde . . . / . . . verba mea auribus percipe domine"). Digitized image of manuscript on parchment. 1 folio, 14…

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.

Detail of capital S initial from the recto of the folio at University of Toronto, Massey College.

Office of the Dead, Vespers. Conclusion of Psalm 114 through beginning of Psalm 119. Text immediately precedes the leaf held by the University of Saskatchewan. Digitized images of manuscript on parchment. 1 folio,14 lines. Ruled in red with text in…