Layout: 1 column, 18 lines Decoration: 1 2-line initial in burnished gold on blue and pink gounds with white penwork highlights, rubrics in red, and brown ink vinework extending into lower margin from final line of text, with red touches for buds on leaves on fol. 117v Ruled in brown and/or pink ink Later foliation in pencil at lower left corner of each recto Vertical catchwords written along the internal vertical ruled line at the bottom right corner of the verso of fols. 81.152 and 81.182 Fol. 81.156 blank on verso but with offset of an illuminate miniature from the facing folio Remnants of red binding thread at top gutter of fol. 81.152r and at bottom gutter of fol. 81.182v Blank spaces left on fol. 81.156r for non-excuted decorated or illuminated initials Provenance: Gift of David Bee (Los Angeles, CA) in 1982, formerly Spec.Rare.CMS.113, VII-81, 370.001-003 (fol. 81.182 not listed in original finding aid) Fol. 81.117: Text from a prayer to the Virgin Mary, with mention of the Seven Corporal Acts of Mercy, the Twelve Articles of Faith, the Ten Commandments, and the Seven Deadly Sins Fol. 81.152: Text from a prayer invoking the Three Kings, St. Michael, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and the Virgin Mary Fol. 81.156: Text from the Suffrages, with an antiphon for St. Quentin of Amiens and a closing prayer to all martyr saints Fol. 81.182: Text from a prayer invoking the instruments of the Passion, with the rubricated opening of a prayer to the Virgin Mary Incipit: Fol. 81.117: tres de bonnaire vierge que tu vien / gnes Fol. 81.152: beneichon soies vous beneis donc Fol. 81.156: Egregie Christi martir quintine susci / pe Fol. 81.182: …dit . Et le sant Glorieux qui / la me nous rendit . Explicit: Fol. 81.117: …iours / me Noelle monstrer ta fache et moy… Forl. 81.152: vous / ennemis naient paoir de vous gre… Fol. 81.156: Domine / exaudi orationem meam . Et cla / mor meus ad te remat . Bene / dicamus domino . Deo gracias Fol. 81.182: de dieu vierge enlenfantenit / et vierge apres lenfantement
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