Extent: 3 leaves : parchment, ill., illuminations ; 167 x 123 (100 x 67) mm
Note:
Ms. leaves. Title from Kidd. Layout: Written in 17 lines; frame-ruled. Script: Written in a regular textura scripts. Decoration: 2-line champie initials in blue, gold, and red; boarder the height of text of each recto, with fruit and flowers on geometric panels of gold and stylized acanthus in blue and gold on plain background. Origin: Written in France, perhaps Paris, approximately 1475. Responsory and versicle of the 8th lesson in the Office of the Dead indicate the Use of Paris; Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, CA (before September 1948); in pencil at Vassar College: 'Book of Hours, French, 15th century' in lower margin and '3' in lower right corner of recto and 'Dawson Sept' 48 [dollars]3.--' and '543' in lower margin of verso.
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