...piisimam faciem tuam.../...facta sunt. Quem adore....

End of "Obsecro te," beginning of "O intemerata," from a fifteenth-century Book of Hours known as the St. Alexis Hours. Full border of acanthus and rinceaux in gold and colors with birds and other creatures. Roundel miniature in the outer central margin of recto and verso. Recto: A woman in a blue gown before an altar with a small child sitting at the base. Historiated initial with a man standing on a road gazing at a Heavenly aperture; Verso: The Harrowing of Hell: Christ standing before a cave opening as a group of nude figures emerge. Dismembered in the 1990s. This leaf offered by Charles Puckett Rare Books, stock number IM-13673, current location unknown.

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