Incipit & explicit: "E(t) tres douce pour mycelle.../...et petenotre et unc aucin."

Vernacular prayers; Stanza 16 of the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin and the prologue of the Seven Requests to Our Lord.

Faint brown staining on the page; there does appear to be a crease in the center of the page.

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. 

(Patricia McGurk)

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