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BREVIARY, for Augustinian use, in Latin. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Northern or Central Italy, ca. 1450] 137x95mm., 499 leaves + an original ruled blank (lacking the final blank leaf).COMPLETE. Collation: 1 6 2-22 10 23 6 24-30 10 31 8 32-51 10 . 29 lines, double column, catchwords at the end of most quires, justification 90x65mm, written in brown ink (faded towards the end), rubrics in red, two-and three-line initials throughout in blue and red with purple and red pen-work decoration, 11 FOUR TO SIX LINE ILLUMINATED INITIALS, purple or blue on burnished gold ground, with floral extensions, including 4 within ¾ border, two with blank shield in lower border. (Border on f.7 a little rubbed; last leaf slightly stained, with very small burnhole affecting one letter). Early 19th-century vellum gilt, stained yellow, edges gilt and gauffered. PROVENANCE: Written for Augustinian use: the calendar has St.Augustine, also his translation and conversion in red, as well as St.Monica, Augustine's mother in red on 4 May; there is also a suffrage to her. The volume is lettered on the spine 'Breviario antico trovato in Pompeia'; Herbert George Morse, early 19th-century bookplate; T.F.R., armorial bookplate. TEXT: This comprises a Kalendar (ff 1-6); the Temporale (ff 7-222); Ferial Psalter (ff 223-300); Sanctorale (ff 301-460); 461 blank; Common of Saints (ff 462-499). Amongst the saints in the Kalendar is St.Ubaldo, bishop of Gubbio, in red on 16 May.