Layout: 1 column, 12 lines Decoration: 1 3-line, 1 2-line, and 5 1-line initials in burnished gold on blue and burgundy grounds with white penwork highlights, and with rubrics in red Decoration: 6-line illuminated initial "D" inhabited by a figure standing at an altar, the scene set against burnished gold grounds and the entire initial set within a dark-blue frame with white penwork highlights and burnished gold splashes at the corners. Decoration: Extending down the inner margin from the lower left corner of the frame is a curling tail in blue, red, and orange Ruled in plummet Modern pencil foliation at top right corner of recto ("57") According to the dealer's description, the manuscript is possibly associated with the Bari Atelier Incipit: sanctum benignus infun / de cuius Explicit: mihi / in domum domini ibimus End of the Collect prayer "Mentibus nostris Domine", the prayer "Protégé domine famulos tuos", and the opening of Vespers in the Office of the Virgin, and the beginning of Psalm 121
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