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ff. 1-291v: [Psalter and Prayers]: ff. 1-4v: Flyleaves with owners' notes; ff. 5-16v: Calendar with major feasts in red; ff. 17-33v: [f. 17, blank], Penitential psalms, gradual psalms, and litany; ff. 34-55v: Office of the Dead; ff. 56-69v: [f. 56, blank], Commendation of souls; ff. 70-77: Psalms of the Passion; f. 77v, blank; ff. 78-94: Prayers to Jesus, a suffrage of Christopher, prayer at Communion, a suffrage of Barbara, prayers to the crucified Christ, a prayer at the consecration; ff. 94v-95v, blank; ff. 96-102v: Suffrages of John the Baptist, Thomas of Canterbury, Erasmus, John the Evangelist, the Holy Face, and other prayers; ff. 103-112: [f. 103, blank], Prayers to the Virgin, including the Obsecro te; f. 112v, blank; ff. 113-269: [f. 113, blank], Psalter (ff. 270-271v, containing Pss. 5:8 though 7:17, are misbound and should follow f. 116); ff. 269r-v, 272-284v: Ferial canticles; Te deum laudamus...; Quicumque vult...salvus esse non poterit. Anno domini 1478. ff. 285-291v, blank
Type
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Date
[1478]
Call number
mssHM 1248
Provenance
On f. 1, the signature "Pedro micault" and a prayer; on ff. 1-5, birth and death notices in Flemish of the Micault family, 1581-1600; places mentioned are Brussels, Mechelen (Malines) and Bruges. On the back flyleaves, ff. 286-288, birth and death notices in French of the Micault family, 1510-1606; places mentioned are Brussels, Utrecht, Rome, Valladolid. Added in a space in the calendar, f. 5, in an 18th c. hand, "Ad numeros libris Christiani Geller Parochi in Lebach" (in the Saarland). Arms, late 18th c., of "Joannes D[ei] G[ratia] S[acri] R[omani] I[mperii] Princeps Salm Kyrburg Comes Rheni et Sylv." (Rietstap, vol. 5, pl. 233), whose lands were in Westphalia, from the covers of a previous binding, now as pastedowns. Belonged to William K. Bixby of St. Louis; his bookplate on f. i verso; acquired by Henry E. Huntington through G. D. Smith in August 1918.
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RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
74 x 110 mm
Associated people
Bixby, William K. (1857-1931,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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