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Ms. Codex 2032: 18th Century Prayer Book

Coffee With a Codex on Monday, November 8, featured Schoenberg Curator of Manuscripts Nick Herman with Ms. Codex 2032, a book of prayers for a lay reader’s private use during the Mass. This is an aesthetically pleasing manuscript, written in a neat italic script and decorated with watercolor and gold. Ms. Codex 2032, f. 1r The iconography featured in Ms. Codex 2032 is drawn primarily from the…