Page with miniature (presumably the Adoration of the Magi) for Sext of the Hours of the Virgin, containing the end of Terce and beginning of Sext is missing between fols. 47 and 48 Penitential Psalms and associated texts missing between folios 69 and 70 (announced by rubric on fol. 69r) Binding is partially detached and first gathering is entirely detached Two upper flyleaves are early or original parchment, ruled; recto of first upper flyleaf is red silk pastedown; fols. 132v-137r are ruled but blank Binding: Nineteenth-century red velvet with metal ajouré corner pieces; niello coat-of-arms (azure between three roses or a chevron of the second, possibly of Cardinal Pietro Bembo but likely a spurious nineteenth-century addition) on front center in oval cartouche with ajouré frame; ajouré metal clasp with filigree mounts Layout: One column of twenty-two lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 123 x 71 mm Script: Bâtarde Script: Gothic--textualis Decoration: Thirteen large miniatures in all'antica architectural frames with bas-de-page vignettes, twenty small miniatures, and twenty-four calendar vignettes; single-side foliate panel borders on pages with small miniatures; illuminated initials and line fillers throughout Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 1989, no. 3. Related resource: Hirsch, John C., Western Manuscripts of the Twelfth through the Sixteenth Centuries in Lehigh University Libraries: A Guide to the Exhibition (Bethlehem, PA: Rare Book Room, Linderman Library, Lehigh University, 1970), p. 28, no. 18. Provenance: Purchased by Lehigh University (9 September 1881) from Théophile Belin, Paris
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