[Book of hours]
Published: 1450
Language: lat
Number of pages: 117
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions; Books of hours -- Texts -- Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Ohio -- Oxford; Illumination of books and manuscripts
Work titles: Book of hours (Ms. Miami University Libraries)
Notes: Ms. Written and decorated in Flanders?

In Latin

Purchase, 1997

The text comprises a calendar on six leaves; Hours of the Cross (f.8); Hours of the Holy Spirit (f.13); Mass of the Virgin (f.17); Hours of the Virgin: Matins (f.25); Lauds (f.36); Prime (f.44); Terce (f.48); Sext (f.52); None (f.55); Vespers (fl58); Compline (f.63); Hours for Advent (f.67); Penitential Psalms (f.73); Office of the Dead (f.85); Obsecro te and O intermerata (f.109); and Suffrages to the Saints (f.111). The calendar has St. Bavo, the Bishop of Ghent (Oct. 1), which would indicate the origin of the original owner. The verso of the last leaf has prayers in a 16th century hand.