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Book of Hours for Sarum Use
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Purchased with Karen Gould Collection fund from Richard Linenthal, London, 2014 for Karen Gould Collection, Nelson-Atkins Museum.
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Binding: Bound.
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Other decoration, 23 leaves bound: Six 5-line painted and gilt initials with borders (matins missing) Folio 4v – Lauds Folio 13 – Prime Folio 15v – Terce Folio 17 – Sext Folio 18 – Nones Folio 19v – Vespers Folio 21 – Compline (initial missing cut out) Initials are blue & red with gilt letter shape. Blue/red decorated with white pen work. Initials extend into red, blue, gilt ¼ border which...
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Script, 23 leaves bound: Textura.
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Layout, 23 leaves bound: Text block 116 x 73 mm. 22 lines. Ink frame and line ruled, red ink. 23 leaves, binding 20th century goatskin. Tentative collation; 1 #^8# (wanting one at beginning), 2-3 #^8#. In text and frequently on right side of text block to signal psalm prayer reading and hour.
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Incipit, 23 pages bound: per eundem christum dominum nostrum amen benedicamus domino deo gratias.
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Explicit, 23 pages bound: per tempora perfusa celi gratia gestant puelle viscera.
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We are grateful to Brother Thomas, O.S.B. for providing the identification of the text, Patricia Deery Kurtz for the incipit and explicit and to Linda Ehrsam Voigts for the physical description.
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22 June 2023
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22 June 2023
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