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Numerous emblems and mottoes (see Object History note).&lt;br&gt;\rSmall coloured initials and script throughout.&lt;br&gt;\r&lt;br&gt;\rMain openings: &lt;br&gt;\rHours of the Virgin, Matins: Annunciation (f. 2v) and historiated initial D with seated Virgin and Child (f. 3r); Lauds: Visitation (f. 26v) and decorated initial D (f. 27r); Prime: Nativity (f. 41v) and decorated initial D (f. 42r); Terce: Annunciation to the Shepherds (f. 48v) and decorated initial D (f. 49r); Sext: Adoration of the Magi (f. 55v), and decorated initial D (f. 56r); None: Presentation in the Temple (f. 62v) and decorated initial D (f. 63r); Vespers: Flight into Egypt (f. 69v), and decorated initial D (f. 70r).&lt;br&gt;\rAntiphon Regina celi laetare: historiated initial R with Virgin and Child.&lt;br&gt;\rMass for the Virgin: Annunciation (f. 92v) and decorated initial S.&lt;br&gt;\rPenitential Psalms: King David in prayer (f. 98v) and decorated initial D (f. 99r). &lt;br&gt;\nHours of the Cross: Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist (f. 125v) and historiated initial D with cross and instruments of the Passion (f. 126r). &lt;br&gt;\r&lt;br&gt;\rBinding: c.1820-1830, Spain: calf over boards with embossed cathedral design blocked in blind on front and back covers. 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Henry Harvey Frost (1873-1961); failing eyesight led to the dispersal of his library from 1952, chiefly by Maggs. \n5) Acquired by the National Art Library in 1953 through Maggs; the manuscript was offered through Maggs for £275 in 1952 and was presumably acquired for about this amount in 1953.\r","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Manuscript, Book of hours, use of Rome, known as the 'Eleanor of Toledo Hours', Florence, 1541.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Whalley, J.I.<u>The pen's excellencie. Calligraphy of western Europe and America</u>. Tunbridge Wells: 1980.","id":"AUTH348653"},"details":"pp. 118-119.","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"Harthan J.P.<u>An introduction to illuminated manuscripts</u>. London: 1983.","id":"AUTH348657"},"details":"p. 42, fig. 27.","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"Robinson, P.R. <i>Catalogue of dated and datable manuscripts c.888-1600 in London libraries</i>. 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