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Roll: [Prayer roll: Penitential psalms and litany; Short hours of the Dead; Short hours of the Conception; Prayers in Latin and in French]. Prayer roll written in France at the end of the fifteenth century. Span folios: 1 roll of 7 membranes of varying length (from 150 to 690 mm.) Support: Parchment. Layout: Ruled in pale red ink; pricking still present. Written in two sizes of a Bâtarde script according to liturgical function. Decoration: Three miniatures, the width of the text, framed by a simple painted gold band. Two historiated initials, approximately 4-line. 4- and 3-line initials in blue with white shading against a pale flesh-tone ground with gold filigree; 2- and 1-line initials in painted gold against square grounds of blue, brown or flesh-tone; ribbon line fillers in the same colors. Rubrics in pale pink. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/25/2009. 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). HM 39467. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
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