Ms. codex. Title from Kidd. Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (paper) + 17 + iii (paper) (foliated i-iii, 1-20); 11 2-38. Layout: written in 21 lines; frame-ruled. Script: written in Lettre Bâtarde script. Decoration: one-line initials in gold on alternating red and blue; rubrication throughout. Apparently owned by a woman when the added prayers using feminine forms (fol. 15v) were written. Gwara suggests that this "seems to be the same Book of Hours first sold publicly in 1921 from the collection of Rudolf Busch in Mainz." Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (1912-1966), author of science fiction and other works: signed and dated "Paul M. A. Linebarger Paris 1933" and with his bookplate...
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