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NYPL Spencer 010 | | Description: ff. iii + 210 + iii - 19th century dark olive-brown morocco by Cape, with giltwork, wrongly lettered on the back as to date. - Initials GM, GY and BL appear throughout the manuscript, along with motto "Je me plains..." (f. 184v). Bookplate of Francis Jack (1787-1880), second earl of Kilmorey. Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, 1922. - De Ricci, 1337. | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 6 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/NYPLSpencer010_42 | | Language: Latin; French Country: France Century: 15th |
| | Part 1: ff. 1-210v | | Description: - Parchment - 133 x 93 mm - 15 long lines per page, ruled in red (brown?) pen. Some prickmarks and traces of some catchwords visible. Quaternions seem to be the norm, but most catchwords no longer extant. | | Country: France | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: | | Assigned Date: s. XV | Searchable Date Range: 1400 - 1499 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: ;1 | | Script: Ba^tarde | | Figurative Decoration: 18 large and 2 small miniatures; 2 historiated initials; full-page and lateral borders decorated with grotesques. | | Other Decoration: 1-line, 2-line and 4-line gold initials on black, red and blue backgrounds. Gold, black, red and blue linefillers. Rubrics. | | Notes: Notes in dossier state that this is a Franco-Norman manuscript, use of Amiens. Another note in the dossier raises the possibility that this manuscript is a nineteenth-century forgery (the decoration may appear later than the script, which is authentic). Latin | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: ff. 1-209v | | Title:
Book of hours, use of Amiens
| | Language(s): Latin; French | | Incipit: Passio domini nostri ihesu christi secundum iohannem | | Explicit: ut tue miserationi regratiari valeam in secula seculorum. Amen. | | Notes: French used in calendar, some rubrics, and some border designs. | 
| f. 1
Opening page of calendar, with the beginning of the month of January, written in French. Rubrics, initials, lateral border design with initials bl.
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| ff. 13v-14
Opening of main text with historiated initial, full-page miniature of Christ tied to a column, elaborate border design with grotesques.
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| f. 41v
Page of text with initial, lateral border containing words in French. Trace of catchword in lower margin.
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| f. 122
Page of text with initials, linefillers, and lateral border design with grotesque figure.
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