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| Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library,
BANC MS UCB 150 | Description:Heller Hours ff. iv + 265 (ff. i, 265 former pastedowns) - Blind stamped calf, 15th century, decorated with a panel of the Annunciation and signed with the letters WC as used by William Caxton and Wynken de Worde. Fore edge clasp with missing strap, clsoing from bottom to top. - Geneological notes of the Morton family (1507-92); birth notice of Margaret Ludlow (1592); sale of Revd. Lord Byron, Sotheby's (1 July 1935, lot 327) to Maggs; gift of the Heller family to TBL UC Berkeley (1988). Formerly 2MS BX2080 S2 1440z. | Notes:-Unidentified coat of arms, f. 10. | Acknowledgments: - Information for this description provided by C. W. Dutschke. | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 31 | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/BANCMSUCB150_1 | Language: Latin Country: England Century: 15th |
| Part 1: ff. 1-265 | Description: - Parchment - 128 x 88 mm - 16 long lines ruled in pale red ink. | Country: England | Cardinal point: | Region: | City: | Assigned Date: s. XVmed | Searchable Date Range: 1440 - 1460 | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | Document: No | Number of Scribes: 1 | Script: Gothic. | Figurative Decoration: 27 full-page miniatures within arched frames of burnished gold and full borders. | Other Decoration: Major initials facing miniatures on burnished gold grounds with full borders; 2-line initials in burnished gold with floral sprays; 1-line initials within text in gold alternating with blue; jig-saw line fillers. | Notes: Miniatures mainly on inserted singletons, 5 (?) missing. | Number of Texts: 1 |
| Text 1: ff. 1-260 | Title: Text | Title:
Book of Hours, Sarum use
| Language(s): Latin | Notes: Birth notices of the Morton family, ff. 260-61; ff. 261v-265 blank except for a 16th century price. | Status of text: Several quires lack leaves. | 
| ff. 243v-244
Miniature: St. George, with leaves missing between present verso and facing recto (suffrage of St. Anne). View image
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