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Summary information.

Title
Latin book of hours manuscript leaf
Alternative Title
Incipit: Non habebit vitam eterna[m].
Contributor
Catholic Church
Date Created and/or Issued
approximately 1470
Contributing Institution
UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
Collection
Historical Artifacts Collection
Rights Information
Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description
Scope/Content: Detached manuscript leaf from a book of hours.
Scope/Content: Script: Unadorned, rounded Gothic script; minimal traces of illumination on some capital letters.
Scope/Content: Brown ink with ruling in red, with single bounding lines.
Scope/Content: Layout: 15 lines of text on recto and 15 lines of text on verso.
Scope/Content: Explicit: et obediendi gratiam. fidei.
Scope/Content: Text is from O intermerata, a prayer to the Virgin which is a fundamental part of all books of hours, and includes numerous abbreviations, such as: xpn (christum); oibus (omnibus); p (per); petis (peccatis); and, seper (semper).
Type
text
Format
Vellum; 163 x 118 mm
Form/Genre
books of hours
Manuscripts, Medieval--France
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Prayers and devotions
Extent
2 unnumbered pages (that is, 1 unnumbered leaf)
Identifier
ark:/86086/n2tf00fq
BX2080.C376 1470
991010649419704706
31210021408651
UCR018
Language
Latin
lat
Subject
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Prayers and devotions
Place
France
Provenance
Sold by Mackus Company Illuminated Manuscripts, Fairlawn, Ohio.

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