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(CATHOLIC LITURGY.) [Prayer book.]illuminated manuscript in latin, written in Gothic script in black ink with 1- and 2-line initials in red and blue, recto and verso, on vellum. with eight-line decorated initial o and penwork border on leaf 1r, 3-line initial on 39r, and 5-line decorated initial on 46v, the latter 2 with penwork marginal extensions. 47 (of ?) leaves. 116x84 mm, later blind-stamped vellum boards; soiling in lower outer corners through most of volume, first few leaves heavily stained and soiled. Northern Netherlands, later 15th century
Devotional miscellany beginning with Oratio devota ad sanctam trinitatem ante sanctam co[m]munionem dicenda; other texts include prayers to the Virgin and the Jubilus attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux.
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