"Beate Marie uirginis filius.../pro nobis deu(m) depreceris"

Includes full text of Latin prayer "Cecos cordium oculos," and part of "O sacratissima virgo"; the latter is preceded by "Lectio III," written in gold. Use of these prayers as Lectio II and III of Matins in the Hours of the Virgin Mary is seen in Paris.

Full border of acanthus and rinceaux in gold and colors with large enclosed fruit tree at bottom. Roundel miniature in the outer central margin of recto and verso.
Recto: St. Catherine kneeling before a man in blue (l'Ermitt) with a book in her lap; they are outdoors, with trees and a building in background
Verso: St Catherine standing naked in a gold baptismal font, being baptized by the same man (l'Ermitt), now holding a book; blue and gold decorate the background.

13 lines of text with two-line illustrated initials.
C (Cecos): A figure with a red cloak standing on a green checkerboard field, with gold plant-like designs behind.
O (O sacratissima): A figure in red crouches on a green checkerboard field, with gold plant-like designs behind.

Codex, when complete, said to have been owned by Ezra Clark Stillman (1907-1995), New York, NY. Likely broken by Bruce Ferrini in the 1980s. Resequenced December 2025 by students in Lisa Fagin Davis' Fall 2025 Simmons University School of Library and Information Science (Boston, MA) course, "The Medieval Manuscript: from Clarlemagne to Gutenberg" (LIS 464).

This leaf offered by Charles Puckett Rare Books, stock number IM-1519, current location unknown.

Lightly written along bottom right edge of verso: "VM6405." Ruling visible, faint red, horizontal and some vetical.

Sarah Leveille

• Simmons School of Library and Information Science LIS 464 (Fall 2025) observations
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