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NYPL MA 041 | | Description: ff. ii + 172 + ii - Modern red velvet with 18th century silver inlaid plaques. Doublure of old red morocco with French royal arms surrounded by the collar of the Order of St. Michael; edges gilt and gauffered. - Robert L. Stuart (1806-1882), bequeathed 1892. - De Ricci, 1321. - Jonathan J. G. Alexander, James H. Marrow and Lucy Freeman Sandler, The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the New York Public Library(London / Turnhout: The New York Public Library / Harvey Miller Publishers, 2005) n. 57. | | Acknowledgments: - We thank Roger S. Wieck for his extensive work towards the present description of this manuscript. | | Number of Parts: 2 - Number of Images Available: 8 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/NYPLMA041_41 | | Language: Latin; French Latin Country: Flanders Century: 16th 15th |
| | Part 1: ff. 1-172v | | Description: - Parchment - 226 x 158 mm - 15 long lines per page (17 in calendar) ruled in red pencil. Prickings and some catchwords visible. | | Country: France | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: Besançon | | Assigned Date: s. XV3/4 | Searchable Date Range: 1450 - 1475 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: ;1 | | Script: Gothic | | Figurative Decoration: 13 miniatures. Animal and human figures in some borders. | | Other Decoration: 1-line and 2-line gold initials on red and blue fields. 3-line blue initials on gold fields. Border decorations. Red and blue linefillers. | | Notes: Latin | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: ff. 1-172v | | Title:
Book of hours, use of Besançon
| | Language(s): Latin; French | | Incipit: In principio erat verbum et verbum erat apud deum et deus erat verbum | | Explicit: orare pro nobis et eos clementer exaudire digneris. Per christum dominum nostrum. Amen. | | Notes: French in calendar and ff. 151-158. | 
| f. 2
Page of calendar for the month of February, in French, with entries for each day; border decoration includes a winged grotesque.
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| f. 14
John the Evangelist on Patmos, writing on a scroll with his quill pen, as his symbol, the eagle, watches.
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| f. 20
Annunciation set in an elaborate church; grotesques include an armored merman aiming an arrow at an angel that grows from a flower, with trellises of grapes and flowers in the background.
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| f. 151
Opening of French text of the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin; precisely designated border in C-shape triggered by 3-line initial, and on the right in a band corresponding to the height of the text block.
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| | Part 2: f. 13r-v | | Description: - Parchment - 226 x 158 mm | | Country: Flanders | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: | | Assigned Date: s. XVIin | Searchable Date Range: 1500 - 1515 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: | | Figurative Decoration: 1 miniature | | Notes: Added to its host manuscript, but related only in that both are books of hours. Latin | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: f. 13r-v | | Title:
Book of hours
| | Language(s): Latin | | Incipit: Inter natos mulierum non surrexit maior iohannes baptista | | Notes: Contains a suffrage of John the Baptist. | ![Not Available]()
| f. 13v
John the Baptist with the Lamb of God; in the background, the Baptism of Christ. Text in gold majuscules on a black ground.
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