Extent: 91] leaves, bound : parchment, color illustrations ; 21 cm
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Title from first line of text on leaf [7]. Textura script in red and brown; text and margins lightly-ruled in brown ink; 18 lines per page; large illuminated capitals: blue and white, or brown and gold, on blue, brown, or green panels decorated with tiny flower and leaf motifs in gold or white; other capitals are blue or pink on contrasting panels, with letters illuminated in pink, blue, and gold checkerboard; paragraphs highlighted... Five half-page colored paintings of Biblical scenes, each illustrating a different section of the prayer-book: the Crucifixion (Hours of the Cross); Pentecost (Hours of the Holy Spirit); the Annunciation (Hours of the Virgin); Last Judgment (Penitential Psalms and Litany); Raising of Lazarus (Office of the Dead); illuminated borders of leaves, flowers, fruits, birds, and grotesque human and... Front endpaper is a ms. leaf from the F-G section of a copy of the Concordantiae Sancti Jacobi, which was compiled under the direction of Hugh of St. Cher, a Biblical scholar from the Dominican monastery of St. Jacques in Paris, probably between ca. 1235 and 1249; text in a very fine Gothic script, arranged in 5 [?] columns per page (leaf is cropped), with each term underlined in red. Back endpaper contains an 18-line religious poem in French on death, probably added at a later date by a different owner. Third front flyleaf contains ownership note in northern French vernacular, identifying owner as Mademoiselle Jolent Denin [?] from Wingles, with date of 1597, possibly the year she was born. She died in Thun-Saint-Martin [Nord, France] on Dec. 10, 1624, following the death on June 8, 1624, of her father, Monsieur de Meuve, who is buried in the church in Thun-Saint-Martin.
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