Layout: 1 column, 21 lines Decoration: Fol. 16.34: 2 2-line initials in burnished gold on blue and pink grounds with white penwork highlights and with sprigs of black pen vinework with gold- and green-tipped leaves extending from each Decoration: Fol. 16.188: Numerous 1-line initials alternating in blue or burnished gold, the blue with contrasting penwork in red, the gold with contrasting penwork in blue Decoration: liturgical prompts in red Fol. 16.188: 1 3-line initial “U” in blue with white highlights on burnished gold grounds from which sprout two stems of green, red, and blue leaves and tiny gold berries Ruled in brown ink folio number for each leaf is supplied in pencil at the top right corner of the recto Extremely thin vellum Provenance: Formerly the property of Otto Ege, Cleveland, OH. Ege broke this manuscript and distributed 40 of its folios as part of his portfolio set, Fifty Original Leaves. See Scott Gwara, Otto Ege’s Manuscripts, HL 16 (Fol. 16.188 is the folio originally included as part of Ege’s FOL) Provenance: Original parent manuscript sold at Sotheby’s, 13 February 1928, lot 502 Provenance: Names inscribed on other leaves from same manuscript located elsewhere: “William Sleog” and “Josu Medd” Fol. 16.34: End of lesson 1, lesson 2, and beginning of lesson 3 commemorating the Virgin Mary during Advent, from Nocturns during Matins, and with additional text from St. Maximus Taurenensis’ Homilia 12 Fol. 16.188: Antiphons and Psalms for the first nocturn of Matins on Mondays and Thursdays in the Office of the Dead Incipit: Fol. 16.34: sine generante prodire . Propter quod / ait angelus Fol. 16.188: omnibus consequantur . Qui cum deo patre et spiritu sancto Explicit: Fol. 16.34: quod Adam fi / guratus est el limo Fol. 16.188: Ecce parturit in iusticiam : concepit dolorem et peperit iniquitatem . Lacum aperivit
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