Provenance: The leaf was acquired for the Alfred and Isabel Reed Collection at the Dunedin Public Library from the bookseller Alan G. Thomas, Catalogue 16 (1965), no. 12b, using funds bequeathed by Alfred H. Reed (1875–1975). Thomas had acquired the imperfect parent manuscript (164 leaves, several mutilated) at the Sotheby & Co. sale of Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures on 6 July 1964 (lot 246) for £280.

Text: The text comprises part of the service of Lauds in the Office of the Dead, beginning with the concluding verses of Psalm 66 (verses 6-8), followed by the Canticle of Ezechias, breaking at verse 12 (Isaias 38:10-12).

Script and decoration: Written in lettre bâtarde script. One 2-line initial in gold with brown highlights on blue ground; four versal capitals alternately blue or gold, with pen flourishing in red or black extending into the margins. Line fillers consist of alternating blue and brown bars embellished with fronds in gold. 

Marginal panel decorated with acanthus foliage in blue and gold together with long-stemmed blue and gold flowers.

Reconstruction: This leaf is included as part of an ongoing digital reconstruction of the manuscript's surviving fragments. Additional identified fragments may be viewed and contributed via Fragmentarium F-g81r

• Rose Faunce, Australian National University
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