Layout: 2 columns, 21 lines Decoration: 6 2-line initials in burnished gold on blue and pink grounds with white penwork highlights, with sprays of ivy in burnished gold stemming from severl Decoration: 1 1-line initial in the same style on verso, with a long vertical bar in blue, pink, and gold extending up the external margin of the first column; a single bar line filler in blue and white with a gold lozenge at its center Decoration: rubrics in red; the upper, lower, and exterior margins of the verso replete with extensive ivy vinework and foliage terminating in gold leaves, blue and red acanthus, and flowers in many colors. Decoration: On recto: 2-line initial "A" in brown ink but embellisehd with the profile of a very detailed face. On verso: 6-line column-widt miniature (50 x 60 mm) depicting St. Bernard of Clairvaux standing in a pulpit and preaching to seven Cistercian monks. Modern foliation in pencil at center of top margin on recto: "96" Earlier dealer codes and/or inventory stock numbers in pencil at lower right corner of recto Provenance: Donated by Susan Coulter (Newtown Square, PA) in honor of Herbert Coulter, June 2022 The presence of the Mass for the Nativity of Bernard is somewhat unusual and indicative of the manuscript's Cistercian use. The possible ascription fo the MS to Neuborg Abbey is due to the presence of the abbey's arms (sable, with double tower argent) in the border of the folio bearing the text for the feast of Ephiphany. Incipit: …suetudinem et iusticiam et deducet Explicit: et in verbis suis monstra Prompts, chants, and readings for the feasts of the Assumption of the Virgin and for the nativity of Bernard of Clairvaux
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