"nes nostros et cor.../...Ecclesiam tuam quasumus domine benignus"

Fragments of three Latin prayers from a fifteenth-century Book of Hours known as the St. Alexius Hours: "Ure igne," "Gratiam tuam," and "Ecclesiam tuam." These prayers can be found together in Compline of the Hours of the Virgin Mary in Books of Hours used in Paris.

Full border of acanthus and rinceaux with a large peacock. Roundel miniature on the outer central margin: St Catherine stands before a wheel; at least two other figures are behind her, one who appears chained to something, another lying with arms spread.

13 lines of text with illustrated two-line initials.
G (Gratiam): head and shoulders of a figure, possibly female, head uncovered.
E (Ecclesiam): head and shoulders of a figure, female, wearing a wimple.

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 Charlemagne to Gutenberg" (LIS 464).

This leaf is preserved as a black and white scan in a book with only one side (recto) visible. Offered by Philip Pirages Rare Books, stock number 53.035, current location unknown.

Sarah Leveille

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