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Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (Edinburgh, Edinburgh UL, MS 41)

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Title

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (Edinburgh, Edinburgh UL, MS 41)

Contains reference to Birgitta

true

Language

Latin

Hand

The script is Gothic of a fair type.

Decoration

The ornamentation consists of the usual blue and red penwork initials, larger initials in burnished gold on blue and lake grounds, and complete or partial borders consisting of two bands of gold and colour surrounded by feathery branch work. Many of these are missing.

Writing support

Parchment

Number of lines

22

Folios

ff. 1r-85v
Fifteen Oes - ff. 72v-76v

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Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library, MS 41 Carries work Book object