Book of Hours – Fragment
Parchment · 1 leaf · 1490 – 1525 CE · Low Countries · 170 x 120 mmF-uoiq
Adelaide, State Library of South Australia, b3270472
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Acquired by the Friends of the State Library of South Australia.
Contents: The opening prayer Obsecro te (incomplete) of the Hours of the Virgin Mary.
Decoration: The prayer opens with a five-line intial 'O' in gold, oval painted blue, on a quartered ground painted blue and pink decorated with white pen work. A floral spray, in gold, in the border accentuates the opening.
The text was copied in a Littera Bastarda bookhand.