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ff. 1-150v. [Book of Hours; portions of the text missing due to lost leaves, and other sections misbound]: ff. 1-12v: Full calendar; ff. 13-20v: Pericopes of the Gospels; ff. 21-25v, 30-44v, 49-54v, 26-27v, 28-29v, 55-62v: Hours of the Virgin, possibly of the use of Paris; ff. 63-74v: Obsecro te, O Intemerata and another prayer; ff. 75-90v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 91-92v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 93-94v, 45-48v, 95-97v: Prayers in French; ff. 98-145: Office of the Dead; ff. 145v-150v: Prayer in French and in Latin, with a suffrage of Martin added. Book of Hours, use of Paris[?], written during the first half fo the fifteenth century in France. Span folios: ff. 1-150v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Because of the amount of missing material, collation represents the quires as they now stand (except in quires 4 and 6 where the missing conjugate of a bifolium is postulated), 1⁶ 2⁶ 3⁸(through f. 20) 4⁶(-1; ff. 21-25) 5⁴(ff. 26-29) 6⁴(-1; ff. 30-32) 7⁸(ff. 30-40) 8⁴(ff. 41-44) 9⁴(ff. 45-48) 10⁶(ff. 49-54) 11⁴(ff. 55-58) 12²(ff. 59-60) 13⁸(ff. 61-68) 14⁶(ff. 69-74) 15⁸(ff. 75-82) 16⁸(ff. 83-90) 17⁴(ff. 91-94) 18-24⁸. Catchwords in center of the lower margin in the script of text. Ruled space, 92 x 60 mm; 13 long lines ruled in pale red ink. Written in two sizes of a gothic book hand, with a suffrage of Martin in Bâtarde script on ff. 145v-150v. Decoration: Only one illumination survives, that of the Office of the Dead, f. 98. Three 4-line initials and 2-line initials alternate white-decorated pink or blue set against a ground of the other color, both infilled with colored trilobe leaves on gold; 1-line initials in gold infilled in blue or pink against grounds of the other color; ribbon line fillers in the same colors; initials in the text washed in yellow. Rubrics in red. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/15/2009. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound in 19th century French green half-roan; marbled endpapers and edges, including the 65 back paper flyleaves. HM 1138. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
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