Layout: 1 column, 10 lines Decoration: 1 2-line initial "C" in burnished gold surrounded by elaborate blue penwork flourishing with red accents, all extending into the outer and lower margins; 5 1-line versal initials in alternating red and blue with penwork in the contrasting color; prompts in red 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: Formerly the property of Otto F. Ege (Cleveland, OH), see Gwara, "Otto Ege's Manuscripts," HL 102 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 Vespers in the Office of the Dead, including the "De profundis" Incipit: …stinui te domine Explicit: Confitebor tibi domine in toto
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