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1.	The Calendar.
2.	Gospels of the Nativity and the Resurrection.
3.	Preliminary Prayers (inserted occasionally).
4.	Horæ—(Nocturns and Matins).
5.	"(Lauds).
6.	"(Prime).
7.	"(Tierce).
8.	"(Sexte).
9.	"(None).
10.	"(Vespers).
11.	"(Compline).
12.	The seven penitential Psalms.
13.	The Litany.
14.	Hours of the Cross.
15.	Hours of the Holy Spirit.
16.	Office of the Dead.
17.	The Fifteen Joys of B. V. M.
18.	The seven requests to our Lord.
19.	Prayers and Suffrages to various Saints.
20.	Several prayers, petitions, and devotions.

This is an unusually full example, but the calendar, the hours, the seven psalms, and the litany, are in almost all the MSS. The buyer must look carefully to see that no miniatures have been cut out; but it is only by counting the leaves in their gatherings that he can make sure. This is often impossible without breaking the binding.

The most valuable "Horae" are those written in England. Some are of the English use (Sarum or York, or whatever it may happen to be), but