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This leaf comes from a section of the Litany of the Saints.
It is illuminated with gold foil in the margins as well as within the text highlighting the first letter of each line. The golden letters are also decorated with alternating blue and red…

This leaf contains the fifth, sixth, and seventh psalms of the Seven Penitential Psalms. The text on the recto begins with the last few lines of Psalm 102 (the fifth Penitential Psalm), followed by the beginning of Psalm 130 (the sixth Penitential…

This leaf comes from the Office of the Dead, at Lauds, and contains the second half of psalm 62, psalm 63 (both in Vulgate numbering) and Isaiah 38:10-11. Both pages have illuminated borders with flowers and leaves. Some initials are rubricated in…

This is a page from a French or Dutch 15th century illuminated manuscript. The illustrations on the margins of this page include berries and flowers as well as extensive gold leaf work. There is also tape on the edge of the top and the bottom of the…

A portion of the poem La Vie de Sainte Marguerite by the Norman poet Wace (c. 1110-1174) The bookhand is Gothic textura semi-quadrata, a style of the High Gothic period. The text of this poem is in Old French, specifically Old Norman. The contained…

Book of Hours, Office for the Dead, at Matins, first nocturne (Officium Pro Defunctis ad Matutinum). Northern France or the Netherlands, late 15th Century. Medieval manuscript leaf, parchment, containing text and decoration, including illuminated,…

Office of the Dead, Matins, end of first nocturne and beginning of second.

Recto: Job 10:16-20, followed by Responsory and Verse

Verso: Psalm of David/ (22 or23) : The Lord is my shepherd, I shall want for nothing

End of Psalm 23/24 (Matins, Hours of the Virgin)

Office of the Dead, Miniature and Vespers