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Description
ff. 1-211v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-17v: Calendar in red and black; ff. 17v-18v: Verses of St. Bernard; ff. 19-103: [f. 19, blank], Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome, ends f. 103, Finit officium beate marie virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane curie. Deo Gratias. Amen; ff. 103v-106v: Mass of the Virgin; ff. 107-108v: Prayer and suffrage of Roch; ff. 109-137 [f. 109, blank]: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 137v-139v: Two indulgences; ff. 140-198v: [f. 140, blank], Office of the Dead, use of Rome; ff. 198v-200v: Prayer to Sebastian and second copy of the verses of St. Bernard; ff. 201-207: [f. 201, blank], Short hours of the Cross; ff. 207-211v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit. Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in the early sixteenth century, certainly after 1471, when Sixtus IV was elected to the papacy (see f. 137v), and probably in Tuscany to judge by the saints in the calendar. Span folios: ff. 1-211v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3¹⁰(+1, f. 19) 4-11¹⁰ 12¹⁰(+1, f. 109) 13-14¹⁰ 15¹⁰(+1, f. 140) 16-20¹⁰ 21¹⁰(+1, f. 201). Catchwords written vertically along inner bounding line. Ruled space, 43 x 30 mm; 12 long lines ruled in dry point. Written in a humanistic script, using brown ink, which has flaked badly on the flesh side. Decoration: Four inserted singletons, blank on the recto with a full page miniature on the verso, and a historiated initial on the facing recto. Two other openings with similar borders and historiated initials, but without the full page inserted miniature. Individual hours in the Office of the Virgin after matins with a medallion in the lower margin with the appropriate subject. Secondary initials, 3-line, in burnished gold against blue backgrounds with marron infilling, both patterned in gold; 2-line initials in painted gold on square gold-patterned colored ground; 1-line initials within the text in painted gold on plain colored grounds. Rubrics in reddish-brown ink. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/13/2009. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound in 19th century tan vellum over pasteboard, with gilt tooling of leafy sprays and onlay deep red morocco flowers; gilt edges. HM 1135. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Extent
ff. iii + 211 (+ f. 27 bis) + iii : parchment ; 55 x 77 mm.
Books of hours Italy 16th century. (aat) Illuminations (Painting) Italy 16th century (aat) Historiated initials Italy 16th century. (aat) Coats of arms. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
The coats of arms of the first owners are, f. 19v, azure, on a bend or three mullets azure (possibly the Ginori family of Florence) and, f. 20, gules, four crescents argent 1, 2, 1. Placed by G. D. Smith in a sale by Anderson, New York, 12 December 1917, n. 243 to G. D. Smith. Smith Catalogue [n. 14, 1916?] n. 140 to Henry E. Huntington.
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