Layout: 2 columns, 29 lines Decoration: 5 2-line initials in alternating red and blue with white penwork highlights and infilled with thick vines and leaves in red and blue, all set on burnished gold grounds framed in black; prompts, rubrics, and foliation on verso in red Ruled in violet/purple ink Foliated in red at top left corner of verso ("cclxiii") Provenance: Étienne Carondelet, canon of Notre Dame, Dôle, ca. 1458 Provenance: Original parent codex sold at Sothmann (Amsterdam), 28 February 1985 From the so-called Carondelet Breviary, written by Jean d'Aussert for Étienne Carondelet, canon of Notre Dame, Dôle, ca. 1458 Incipit: nemo aperint princeps ille qui / transuunt Explicit: per milia prope quinquagenital Prayers, chants, and readings for the feast of the Conception of the Virgin Mary
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