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De Villers Book of Hours

A prayer book intended for use by lay persons for the purpose of daily recited the Divine Office, a complicated series of prayers following sections written mostly in medieval Latin: full calendar (in French), standard pericopes of the gospels (John 1:1-14, Luke 2:1-2, and Mark 16:14-20), Passion according to John (John 18:1-19: 42), Hours of the Virgin (use of Rome), short hours of the Holy Cross and Holy Spirit, penitential psalms and litany of saints, Office of the Dead (use of Rome), Obscero te, seven prayers of Saint Gregory the Great, Suffrages of Saints John the Baptist, Christopher, and Barbara. Also contains notes on the marriage , and on the birth and baptism of the children of Pierre De Villers and Jeanne de Chissiret, 1603-1621 (in French). Original given to USU libraries by L. Boyd and Anne McQuarrie Hatch. 181 illuminated pages.

Utah State University, De Villers Book of Hours, Vault Book 360

1480?-1490?

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