Taking a break from the Italian books, Morgan Library M.700, the Du Bois Hours, is a massive british Book of Hours, use of Sarum, dated to 1325-1330. It starts with a couple of full page illuminations, including a last-judgement, and then the calendar starts on f.5r, one side per month. It has most of the usual english saints and a couple of later additions in a regular, though difficult to parse, secretary hand. Oddly there is no title material for the months, no KL, no verses, not even the name of the month -- apart from it next to the Kalends for the 1st.
(DB ID: 79)
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