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Cervera Vera Hours Facsimile Edition

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The Cervera Vera Hours, named for its twentieth-century owner, is an illuminated manuscript prayer book designed for use in Christian lay devotions. Made in Bruges in the mid-fifteenth century, the manuscript is small enough to be held comfortably in the devotee's hands. It includes a cycle of eight prayer services (known as the Hours of the Virgin) to be recited daily. Also present are the Seven Penitential Psalms, which express sorrow over sin and spiritual failure. The illumination includes eight full-page miniatures, primarily scenes from the infancy of Christ.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Cervera Vera Hours": Horas de la Virgen María facsimile edition, published by Círculo Científico, 2005

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Manuscript book description compiled by Elizabeth C. Teviotdale.
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Horas de la Virgen María

Madrid: Círculo Científico, 2005

  • Commentary (Spanish) by Docampo, Javier; Basteiro, Felisindo
  • Limited Edition: 250 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Cervera Vera Hours: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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