A rubric on fol. 58v suggests that the Hours of the Holy Spirit were once included, but it is now missing Fol. 1 (ruled but left blank) has been tipped into the manuscript Numerous ornamental inscriptions are found on scrolls in the borders of the manuscript, some of which are readable: "O BEATE LUCA FAC NOS..." (fol. 9r); "MATEE APOSTOLI..." (fol. 10r); "CHORO ETERNALI" (fol. 10r); "O BEATE MARC..." (fol. 11v); "AB OMNIS..." (fol. 11v); "O MATER DEI MEMENTO MEI AMEN" (fol. 12v); "MARIA MATER GRACIE MATER MISERI..." (fol. 12v); "FUIT HOMO MISUS ADEO CUI" (fol... Binding: Sixteenth-century brown morocco over wooden boards; gilt stamped decoration on front and back cover; gilt edges; with brown slipcase stamped "BOUND BY H. ZUCKER PHILA." Layout: One column of eighteen lines, ruled in red; written area: 100 x 68 mm Script: Gothic--textualis Decoration: One full-page miniature (for Terce of the Hours of the Virgin; remaining miniatures missing), marginal images; floral and inhabited borders throughout, some with devotional mottoes in banderoles; red, blue, and gold decorated 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. 2038, no. 77. Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), pp. 122-123, no. 111. Related resource: Hourihane, Colum, ed., Time in the Medieval World: Occupations of the Months & Signs of the Zodiac in the Index of Christian Art (Princeton: Index of Christian Art and The Dept. of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, 2007), pp. 58, 82, 103, 134, 153, 164, 190, 202, 177, 280. Provenance: Claude Le Muet (eighteenth century); Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; on fol. 2r in an eighteenth-century hand, "A Claude Le Muet Tresorier de l'église d'Auxerre."; on fol. 108r, a note explains the acquisition of the manuscript from his nephew, "His Liber iam nunc ad...
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