…eius innocens manibus…/…et mundo corde; Annunciation (25 March). Dismembered by Philip Duschnes in 1942;many leaves used as no. 15 in Otto F. Ege's "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios. This leaf sold to M. S. Slocum by the Lima Public Library on December 18, 1942 (stock number 25-1), the first Beauvais Missal leaf sold by the Library. It was acquired by the current owner (a private collector in Maryland, USA) from Slocum's granddaughter.

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