"Contebor Domino secundum iusticiam.../...Qui lazarum resitasti"; parchment is wrinkled throughout the middle section, and there is a slight stain on the bottom left of the verso; Shalley Marshall; [Office of the Dead, Matins, First Nocture]. Written in NW France (likely for the Use of Arras or Paris) in the early 15th century. Possibly identical with the Book of Hours sold at Sotheby's London on 20 December 1948, lot 415. "The Property of a Gentleman." Dismembered by Otto or Louise Ege in the late 1940s, leaves used as no. 45 in Ege's "Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios, of which 40 were produced and 31 are known. [Purchased from Otto F. Ege by Kenyon College].

Record by Shalley Marshall.

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