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Three single leaves from medieval liturgical manuscripts

Archive Item: BC MS Frag. 1 Contains records with digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Three single leaves from medieval liturgical manuscripts

Other titles: Book of hours (Leeds University Library. Brotherton Collection MS Frag. 1)

Level: Item

Classmark: BC MS Frag. 1

Date(s): 14th century

Language: Latin

Size and medium: 3 ff

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/372711

Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts

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Comprises: 1) a leaf from a late 14th-century (?) Book of Hours, with a large arched miniature of the Annunciation, in a French style of painting. The miniature is surrounded by a full decorated border with a peacock, a swallow, strawberries, grapes and flowers. A fine decorated initial 'D' in blue and red, on a gold ground, begins the three lines of text below the miniature (Domine labia mea aperies); 2) a leaf from a 14/15th-century Book of Hours (?), French?, with a prayer to the Virgin, decorated borders; 3) a leaf from a 13th-century Breviary (?), probably English, with readings for Sundays, initials in blue and red.

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