Incipit/Explicit: "est sancta dei genitrix.../...nobis virgo maria amen".

Contains the antiphon, versicles, and responsories before and after the first reading of the first Nocturne of Matins of the Hours of the Virgin. 

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. 

Currently held at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at The Ohio State University.

Evidence of later use and wear: Assorted small stains and marks and a dark smudge near the top part of the gutter edge that could be the remnants of hair follicles from the preparation of the parchment. 

Katherine Kenneally

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