Layout: 2 columns, 30 lines Decoration: 3 3-line and 6 2-line initials in alternating pink and blue with delicate white penwork highlights on grounds of burnished gold with pink and blue vines extending from the corners of each initial terminating in pink, gold, and red ivy leaves Decoration: 9 1-line initials alternating in blue and burnished gold, with contrasting penwork in red and blue, respectively Decoration: horizontal line fillers in red and blue or blue and gold Decoration: prompts and rubrics in red Ruled in faint brown ink 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 24 (Fol. 24.1 is the folio originally included as part of Ege’s FOL) Provenance: Fol. 24.2 previously in the collection of an unidentified private NE Ohio collector Produced in France, but for the English market Incipit: Fol. 24.1: talis domini . totum . sicut in primo . Anno Fol. 24.2: ante faciem tuam et sta / tim veniet ad templum Explicit: Fol. 24.1: Alius tumescit virginis claustra pudoris Fol. 24.2: iustus et timora / tus expectans consolationem israhel . Non Fol. 24.1: Liturgical instructions describing the order of celebration of feasts and services during Advent and the Christmas season in years when Christmas falls on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, concluding on the verso with first Vespers for Christmas day, including Ambrose of Milan’s traditional hymn, “Veni redemptory gentium” Fol. 24.2: Antiphons, hymns, prayers, readings, and liturgical instructions for Vespers and Compline for the Purification of the Virgin Mary
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