... si motus fuero ego autem mis[ericord]ia tua sp[e]ravi. / Spera in deo qin [quoniam] adhuc confite-bor illi salitare vultus mei et de... / Begins with the end of Psalm 12, and leads into the beginning of Psalm 42; likely from Hours of the Virgin, Compline. 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. Acquired by Rochester Institute of Technology in their Cary Graphics Art Collection at an unknown date, and digitized in 2019. 

Record by Samuel Edwards

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