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(HORAE B.M.V.) Near-miniature illuminated liturgical manuscript in Latin, written in gothic script in brownish-black ink, 16 lines (except Calendar in 17), recto and verso, on vellum. with 4 (of ?) miniatures within full-page borders in colors and gold, and one historiated initial; 22 (of 24) three-quarter-page borders in the calendar incorporating vignettes of seasonal labors and zodiac signs; 16 additional full-page and two three-quarter-page divisional borders; scattered individual flowers, birds, and animals painted in margins; one- and two-line initials and line fills in blue on red ground with penwork decoration in white and gold. 198 (of 200?) leaves; lacks leaves 5 and 69. 85x66 mm, later linen over wooden boards, backstrip lacking, covers detached, opening leaves loose; dampstain in lower outer corners in first half of volume, occasional varying surface wear to the illumination, miniature on 80v badly smeared with image largely indistinct, several leaves chipped in blank upper outer corners toward end. Belgium, circa 1500
Use of Rome. Contents: 1r-2r blank; Calendar, 3v-13r, lacking leaf 5 (April/May), 13v blank; Salve sancta facies, 14r-15v; Hours of the Cross, 16r-21v; Hours of the Holy Spirit, 22r-27r, 27v-28r blank; Mass of the Holy Virgin, 28v-36r, 36v blank; Hours of the Virgin, 37r-105r, lacking leaf 69 (presumably with miniature), 105v-106r blank; Officium Beate Marie Virginis quod dicitur per totum adventum, 106v-115v; Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany, 116r-137v; Office of the Dead, 138r-178v; Obsecro te and O Intemerata, 179r-185v; Psalter of St. Jerome, 186r-194r, 194v blank; Athanasian Creed, 195r-198v. Miniatures: Virgin and Child, 28v; Adoration of the Magi(?), 80v; Massacre of the Innocents, 91v; Coronation of the Virgin (unusual in that the Virgin is shown from behind), 106v; historiated initial O with Pietà, 179r.
