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Opening up this handsome Book of Hours currently being digitized and catalogued as part of the #bibliophilly project, we find John the Evangelist Boiled in Oil to introduce the Gospel Lessons, followed by the Annunciation for Matins of the Hours of the Virgin. Book of Hours, use of Paris, c. 1475-1500. Free Library if Philadelphia, Lewis E 95 @freelibraryrarebooks @freelibrary @upennlib @upenninstagram #bookofhours #livredheures #stundenbuch #manuscript #medievalmanuscript #illuminatedmanuscript #middleages #gothic #medieval #moyenage #gotique #gotico #rarebooks #library #old #cool #precious #neat (at University of Pennsylvania)

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A border vignette representing #saggitarius from the #illuminated #calendar of a #bookofhours made in #France around 1475. @freelibrary @freelibraryrarebooks Lewis E 212, fol. 12v. Currently being digitized as part of the #Bibliophilly project. #zodiac #november #cusp #astrology #illuminatedmanuscript #medieval #renaissance #livredheures #moyenage (at Van Pelt Library)

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Can you spot the marginal scribal doodle, also known as a drollery, in this lovely page of Rotunda script from a Flemish book of hours produced in the 1460s and illuminated by William Vrelant? Smaller than a fingernail... Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 106 @freelibraryrarebooks @freelibrary #bibliophilly #doodle #scribe #script #gothic #rotunda #bookofhours #livredheures #monster #marginalia #tinybooks #micrography (at Van Pelt Library)