Layout: 1 column, 21 lines Decoration: 1 2-line and 11 1-line initials in alternating white-grey, gold, and blue set on grounds of red, blue, and gold, with further gold accents. Three of the 1-line initials are inhabited by animal heads. Decoration: Horizonal bar line-fillers in red and/or blue with gold highlighting, with three rendered as brown wooden branches with gold accents The exterior margins of both recto and verso are filled with a vertical bar border of blue and red acanthus leaves, and fine black stems terminating in green leaves, blue and white flowers, and red fruit. Decoration: At the center of each border is a standing bird with outstretched wings, with all decorative elements set against gold grounds Ruled in pink ink Foliated in modern pencil at bottom right corner of recto ("66") This folio is tipped into a printed leaf book: "A Leaf from a Fifteenth Century Flemish Book of Hours with an Introductory Essay by H. C. Schulz, Assistant Curator of MSS at the Huntington Library. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1938 (one of 120 copies) Provenance: Acquired by OSUL in the 1940s Provenance: The Grabhorn Press (San Francisco, CA), 1938 Provenance: David Magee Text from Vespers in the Office of the Dead (Psalms 137:2-8), with associated chants, and the Canticle of the Virgin (Luke 1:46-49) Incipit: …fitebor nomini tuo / Super misericordia tua et veritate Explicit: Quia fecit michi magna
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