| | New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Benjamin MS 5 | | Description: ff. 147 - Bound, s. XV, in blind stamped calf over wooden boards. - Gift, 1943, of Henry Rogers Benjamin and Beatrice Benjamin Cartwright from the collection of their late father, William Evarts Benjamin. - Bond and Faye, p. 322. | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 19 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/BenjaminMS5_20 | | Language: Latin; French Country: Flanders Century: 15th |
| | Part 1: ff. 1-147v | | Description: - Parchment - 179 x 123 mm - 19 long lines. | | Country: Flanders | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: | | Assigned Date: s. XV3/4 | Searchable Date Range: 1450 - 1475 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: | | Script: Formal gothic book hand. | | Artist(s): Maître aux yeux bridés | | Figurative Decoration: 10 full page miniatures on inserted singletons, 11 small miniatures, 9 historiated initials, all in grisaille | | Notes: Five (?) full page miniatures missing before ff. 7, 19, 36, 51, 60: presumably Crucifixion; Virgin and Child; Annunciation; Visitation; Nativity. | | Acknowledgments: - We thank Dr. James Marrow for the attribution of the artist. | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: ff. 1-145v; ff. 146-147v blank but for added notes | | Title:
Book of Hours, use of Rome
| | Language(s): Latin; French | | Notes: Feminine forms in the Obsecro te and O Intemerata prayers (ff. 26v, 28v). | 
| Binding
Inside front cover, with pegging of thongs made visible by the lifting of the pastedown.
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| ff. 33v-34
End of suffrages of male saints, beginning of suffrages of female saints: Nicholas and the pickled infants; Mary Magdalene holding the jar of ointment.
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| ff. 35v-36
Small miniature of Margaret coming out of the dragon's back (3/4 border); historiated initial of Jesus on the Mount of Olives (full border).
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| ff. 50v-51
Kiss of Judas from the Passion cycle in the historiated initial; presumably missing the full page inserted miniature of the Visitation from the Infancy cycle.
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| ff. 59v-60
Christ before Pilate in the Passion cycle; presumably missing the full page inserted miniature of the Nativity from the Infancy cycle.
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| ff. 73v-74
Presentation in the temple; Crucifixion; text in the hand of the scribe on the recto of the inserted singleton (f. 73).
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| ff. 77v-78
Masscre of the Innocents; Deposition from the Cross; text in the hand of the scribe on the recto of the inserted singleton (f. 77).
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