Title from verso of leaf [21]. Text in gothic hand in brown ink; 17 lines per page; margins and lines of text lightly ruled in red; calendar in brown and red ink; canonical hours, captions, and instructions of main text highlighted in red; large illuminated initials and line fillers in rose, blue, and gilt, with white penwork infill; ; elaborate illuminated borders containing flowers, vines, and acanthus leaves, birds, such... Includes ten illuminated miniatures of scenes from the life of Christ in blue, green, orange, gray, brown, white, and gilt; paintings, within square blue and gilt borders, curved on top, depict the Virgin and the saints; Annunciation; visitation of the Virgin with St. Elizabeth; Nativity; annunciation of the birth of Jesus to the shepherds; Presentation in the temple; Massacre of the... Top of leaf [29] replaced with a different piece of vellum, on which text has been rewritten, more closely-spaced, and in darker ink; illuminated border has been interrupted as well, suggesting the correction of a mid-page error or omission. Prickings visible along outer margins of leaves. Illuminated arms of former owners, a comte du Lude and his wife, a member of the house of Boifeuillet, on leaves [47v] and [69v]; arms of the count alone on leaves [58v], [62v], [74r], and [94v]. Notations by another owner, in a later hand, on calendar leaves [3r], [5r], and [11v], indicating special occurrences such as a particular Easter followed by an earthquake, the taking of vows, and the death of a father, for the years 1578, 1580, 1586. Imperfect: calendar leaves for January wanting. Binding signed "Arnold a Lille 1866" on front pastedown. Bookplates: Jay Gould and Helen Gould Shepard.
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