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This manuscript is a fifteenth-century Italian Book of Hours, Use of Rome. It is a small-scale volume of text only, with rubrication and catchwords its only decoration. The text comprises the Hours of the Virgin, the Office of the Dead, partial Hours of the Cross, and Hours of the Holy Spirit.
Support: Parchment; Extent: ii+120+ii; 90 x 60 mm bound to 95 x 70 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper-right hand corner; Collation: 1-7 (10), 8 (4), 9-12 (10), 13 (6); Catchwords: On last verso of gathering, center lower margin; with simple decoration in ink; in red when referring to rubrics
One column of fifteen lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines sometimes visible; written area: 50 x 30 mm
Gothic--rotunda
Rubrication and one-line initials in red ink throughout; four- and eight-line calligraphic red initials at major text divisions
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Leaves missing at the beginning of the last quire including text from the Short Hours of the Holy Cross (before fol. 115)
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Italy
Circa 1450
Italian eighteenth-century red morocco; gilt floral design on the covers, gilt spine and edges; in contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf case
Latin
Sale, Henkels, Philadelphia, June 10, 1896, no. 117; Samuel W. Pennypacker, his sale, Philadelphia, April 25, 1906, II, no. 412 (sale catalogue description pasted on verso of last flyleaf); (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936.
Italy
Circa 1450
Latin
Sale, Henkels, Philadelphia, June 10, 1896, no. 117; Samuel W. Pennypacker, his sale, Philadelphia, April 25, 1906, II, no. 412
This manuscript is a fifteenth-century Italian Book of Hours, Use of Rome. It is a small-scale volume of text only, with rubrication and catchwords its only decoration. The text comprises the Hours of the Virgin, the Office of the Dead, partial Hours of the Cross, and Hours of the Holy Spirit.
Leaves missing at the beginning of the last quire including text from the Short Hours of the Holy Cross (before fol. 115)
Gothic--rotunda
Rubrication and one-line initials in red ink throughout; four- and eight-line calligraphic red initials at major text divisions
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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