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Provenance: The Library acquired the fragment in 1966 from the estate of Sydney photographer and avid bibliophile Colin B. Berckelman. It can be traced to a partially dismembered and imperfect parent manuscript (164 leaves, several mutilated) in Sotheby's Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures sale on 6 July 1964 (lot. 246). The buyer was English bookseller Alan G. Thomas.
See reconstruction of other identified fragments https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-g81r
Text: Prayers and chants traditionally recited for the service of Compline: Nunc dimittis (Canticle of Simeon); Antiphon Ecce complecta sunt omnia que dicta sunt per Angelum de Virgine Maria; Penitential Psalm 101: 2-3; Angelus prayer and Parvum Officium Sanctissimi Sacramenti.
Decoration: One 2-line initial in gold with bronze highlights and decorated with fronds; four versal capitals alternately blue or gold, pen flourished in red or black with extensions into the margins. Line filler bars alternately blue and brown embellished with fronds in gold. Panel border decorated with acanthus foliage in blue and gold with long-stemmed pink flowers.
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Sydney, The University of Sydney Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, Add. Ms. 17, verso – Book of Hours — https://fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-s2p5/1489/19168/270