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ff. 1-166v: [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar; ff. 13-85: Incipit offitium beate et gloriose virginis marie secundum consuetudinem romane curie; ff. 85v-86v, blank; ff. 87-110: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 110v-115: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 115v-116v, blank; ff. 117-166v: Office of the Dead, use of Rome. Book of Hours, use of Rome, written in the second half of the fifteenth century in Italy, possibly in Florence given the style of the illuminations. Span folios: ff. 1-166v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1¹² 2-8¹⁰ 9⁴(to f. 86) 10-11¹⁰ 12¹⁰(to f. 116) 13-17¹⁰. Catchwords to the right in the lower margin. A few quire and leaf signatures remain uncropped, as letters of the alphabet and arabic numerals. Ruled space, 55 x 37 mm; 15 long lines ruled in pale brown ink. Written in a round Italian gothic book hand. Decoration: Historiated initials, ff. 13, 87, 110v and 117. Secondary initials, 2-line blue with red harping and beading, or red with purple; 1-line initials within the text alternating red or blue. Rubrics in red. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/25/2009. 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 17th century Italian calf over wooden boards with gilt tooling of a pomegranate design; gilt edges. HM 25779. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
On the front pastedown the engraved heraldic bookplate of C. W. Loscombe; Sotheby's, 16 December 1946, lot 547 to the London booksellers McLeish and Sons; sold by them to Dawson's Book Shop in Los Angeles with correspondence to that effect dated November 1947 now in Huntington files; sold by Dawson's to Mary W. T. Dickinson by that date. Received by the Huntington Library in April 1953 as a bequest from Mary Dickinson (d. September 1952).
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