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c.193x130mm, vellum, COMPLETE, iii+82+ii leaves, collation: i6, ii-x8, xi4, 24 lines, c.118x70mm, TWENTY-FOUR SMALL CALENDAR MINIATURES incorporated in full borders, 14 LARGE MINIATURES with full borders, including naturalistic birds and insects, dragons, etc., EVERY OTHER TEXT PAGE WITH A PANEL BORDER, illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout, miniatures occasionally with small pigment losses, f.15r slightly darkened and f. 36r with small smudge but otherwise generally in fresh condition, some staining at beginning and end of the volume, sewn on five cords and attractively bound in 17th-century brown morocco, the spine profusely gilt and lettered in capitals ‘Horae / Manus/cript