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Provenance: The Library acquired the fragment in 1966 from the estate of Sydney photographer and bibliophile Colin B. Berckelman. Prior ownership not known.
Text: Part of the Litany of Saints, invoking selected apostles, disciples, martyrs, pontiffs, doctors of the church, confessors, and priests, following to female saints (incipit Sancte iacobe ora pro nobis - explicit Sancta agnes).
Script: The manuscript is written in a hybrid Gothic bookhand known as bastarda, bâtarde and sometimes called lettre bourguignonne. Initials and line fillers alternating red and blue.
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Sydney, The University of Sydney Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, Add. Ms. 9, USyd_AddMS9v – Book of Hours — https://fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-ruaz/3851/40577/0