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Illuminated Manuscript. Book of Hours. Latin. Gothic bookhand (textualis). Parchment, ii paper flyleaves + 67 fols. + ii paper flyleaves, 182 x 127 (118 x 78) mm, 21 long lines, ruled in pink ink. Nineteenth century binding, brown velvet with brown leather spine and corners over pasteboards. 1450-1475. Production Place: Germany. CONTENTS: fols. 1r â 51v Hours of the Virgin, with Memoriae at Lauds, Vespers and Compline; fols. 52r â 54r Memoriae for Common of Saints for Vespers and Matins; fols. 55v â 67v Penitential Psalms and Litany, with hymns and collects for the Holy Spirit, including Veni creator spiritus. DECORATION: Two full-page prefatory miniatures with full acanthus and foliate borders: fol. 1v Hours of the Virgin, Matins, Annunciation; fol. 55v Penitential Psalms, David penitent before throne, Fool and other attendants behind, dog beneath throne. Three German engravings mounted on flyleaves: fol. i verso Aldegrever, Charity, dated 1552 (Bartsch and Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish, 122); fol. ii recto Aldegrever, Patience, dated 1552 (Bartsch and Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish, 119). fol. ii verso Matheus Zatinger, St Catherine (Bartsch 11, Lehrs 8). ORNAMENTATION: Gold, blue, dark pink or green initials [7 â 12 ll.] with white foliate motifs (and inscription ave maria, fol. 36v) on gold, red and blue grounds, occasionally diapered or quartered, with white decoration, foliate and acanthus motifs and full, one-sided or partial acanthus and spraywork borders, those at main text divisions enclosed within gold frames; gold initials [3 â 4 ll.] on blue and dark pink white-patterned grounds with brown pen-flourished extensions; alternate red and blue penwork initials [1 â 2 ll.] with occasional red or brown pen-flourishing or gold and red decoration.
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