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- [15 cent.], [binding 18 cent.] (Creation)
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Bound in calf, gold tooled on spine, lettered 'Heures Gotique', eighteenth century.
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A book of Hours: probably from the diocese of Rheims (Sainct Remi in red in the calendar), containing calendar (ff. 1-12), gospel sequences (ff. 13-16 verso) Hours of the Virgin (ff. 17-72 verso), Hours of the Cross (ff. 73-77), Hours of the Holy Spirit (ff. 77 verso-85 verso), Penitential Psalms and Litany (ff. 86-104), 'Obsecro te' (ff. 104-108 verso), Office of the Dead (ff 109-136 verso), the Fifteen Joys (ff. 136 verso-142) and the Seven Requests (ff. 142-145 verso). Single leaves have been removed from the following: ff. 13, 15, 16, 26 and 59, while illuminated initials have been cut out of many leaves (ff. 23, 52, 71, 78, 82, 110, 134). Miniatures with full-page decorated borders constitute the usual sequence, lacking however those for Matins, Lauds and Vespers (all removed). Spine lettered 'Heures Gotique'.
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Latin.
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Preferred citation: 671A.