Book of Hours [fragment]

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Language: Latin. Incipit: [lau-]//dabit te non expectabunt qui descendunt in lacum ueritatem tuam. Explicit: Ignis grando nix glacies spiritus procellarum que faciunt uerbum eius //. Folio range: 140r-v

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A leaf of a book of hours copied in Northern France circa 1460. This leaf comes from the Office of the Dead and the text it transmits comes from the Song of Ezechias (Isaiah 38), followed by the requiem, two antiphons, and then Psalm 148:1-8.

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Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.

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Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: Detached. Classification: Leaf (untrimmed). Support material: Parchment. Extent: 1. Foliation - Pagination: A modern pencil foliation "140" in upper right recto. Page dimensions (in mm): 170 x 120. Written area (in mm): 92 x 57. Line height (in mm): 5.3. Script: Gothic. Layout: One column, ruled in red ink for seventeen lines. Single vertical and horizontal bounding lines. Number of columns: 1. Number of lines: 17. Decoration: Two- and one-line gold initials with blue and mauve infill and ground with white linework. Line fillers in the same colors. Rubrics in blue.

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