Layout: 1 column, 15 lines Decoration: 2 2-line initials in burnished gold on pink and blue grounds with white penwork accents and 10 1-line initials in alternating blue and burnished gold with contrasting penwork in red and blue, respectively, occasionally trailing into the margins Otto Ege's identification notes in pencil written in the bottom margin of the verso Provenance: Donated by Keith Jarvis in honor of his grandmother, Ruth Fowler Jarvis, who acquired this folio at the Lima, OH Public Library in the 1950s Provenance: Likely the former property of Otto F. Ege (Cleveland, OH), see Gwara, "Otto Ege's Manuscripts," no exact match provided, but possibly HL 237 Provenance: For further information about the Lima, OH Public Library's sale of Ege MSS, see: Eric J. Johnson, ""Deathless fragments within the reach of many …": Tracing Four Decades of Manuscript Fragmentation via the Lima (OH) Public Library Staff Loan Fund Association Archive." Provenance: Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, vol. 8 no. 2, 2023, p. 329-351. https://doi.org/10.1353/mns.2023.a916134. Text from Sext in the Office of the Dead Incipit: nostrum donec misereatur Explicit: Qui confidunt in domi…
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