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Book of Hours, use of Paris : [manuscript]

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Description: ff. 1-200 [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: full calendar in French; ff. 13-28v: Pericopes of the Gospels with the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata; ff. 29-98v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris; ff. 99-119: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 119v-123v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 124-128: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 128v-186: Office of the Dead, use of Paris; ff. 186v-198: Prayers in French. [ff. 198v-200v, blank].
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1450 and 1499]
Call number: mssHM 1128
Creator: Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Priced 6,500 fr. as n. 2555 in a French bookseller's catalogue (Belin?). Belonged to E. Dwight Church; in his Catalogue . . . of English Literature (1909), vol. 1, n. 404, with plate of f. 128v. The Church collection was acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1911.

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