Binding: Not bound. Other decoration, One leaf: Recto: one 2-line gold initial on blue/red with white infilling, three 1-line gold initials on blue/red with white infilling, one line filler, blue/red with infilling. Verso: two-line gold initials on blue/red with white infilling; yellow wash on capital letters on both recto and verso. Modern pencil marginal notes recto and verso; upper right recto modern 41; lower... Script, One leaf: Textura. Layout, One leaf: Text Block 95 x 68mm. 14 long lines ruled in red ink. 1 column. Two script sizes. Rubrication, rubrics abbreviated.
Former Owner(s):
Acquired by Karen Gould (1946-2012) from Phillip Pirages, possibly his catalogue 24, November 1987; gift of Lewis Gould to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 2012 in his wife's memory.
One leaf: Texts from the final part of the Office of Sext in the Horae beate marie virginis: Psalm 124: 3, followed by the Gloria, then the antiphon: “Rubum quem viderat moyses” (hora de sexta); and the capitulum: “Ego flos campi et lilium.” “Ego flos campi et lilium,” when used as a capitulum for sext is found only at Rennes. One leaf: Contains the final part of Sext of the Hours of the Virgin; according to the online database of Erik Drigsdahl, Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts - Books of Hours 1300-1530 (CHD Center for Håndskriftstudier i Danmark), the capitulum on this leaf, "Ego flos campi," is used only in Rennes. Incipit, One leaf: Oratio, Mentes nostras quesumus domine spiritus pa//. Explicit, One leaf: //iusti ad iniquitatem manus suas. Benefac domine bonis et rectis corde.
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