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This compact Book of Hours, housed in a worn but apparently original brocade binding with original silver clasps, was produced around 1470 in Siena and contains three miniatures painted by Liberale da Verona. These small and extremely refined miniatures represent Christ as Man of Sorrows supported by Angels (fol. 91v), Death standing in a landscape (fol. 95v), and the penitent King David (fol. 132v). The script is humanistic in style with some characteristics of Italian Rotunda. The manuscript begins with a calendar for Dominican Use (fols. 2r-13v), followed by the Hours of the Virgin for the Use of Rome (fols. 15r-91r), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 92r-95r), the Office of the Dead (fols. 95r-131v), and the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers (fols. 133r-155r). The incipit pages for the four major textual sections are decorated with full white-vine or "bianchi girari" scroll borders that connect to the illuminated initials contained within. Smaller white vine initials, with no illuminated borders, mark the post-Matins sections of the Hours of the Virgin.
Support: Parchment; Extent: 155; 127 x 90 mm bound to 134 x 95 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; Collation: 1 (14), 2-14 (10), 15 (11, +11); Signatures: Original signature letters visible in lower right recto, fols. 65r-69r (letter f) and fols. 75r-79r; Catchwords: Original horizontal catchwords in center of lower margin at fols.: 24v; 34v; 44v; 54v; 94v; 104v; 114v; 124v; 134v; 144v; and 154v; original downward facing catchwords in lower right margin at fols.: 74v and 84v
One column of thirteen lines, hard point ruling; written area: 67 x 45 mm
Humanistic
Three full-page miniatures (perhaps with an additional miniature of the Annunciation missing between fols. 14v-15r); four white vine scroll borders with initials attached; seven stand-alone white vine scroll initials; illuminated and decorated initials throughout
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.
Several entries in calendar suggest Dominican Use, including Saints Thomas Aquinas (translation Jan. 28 and Mar. 7); Peter Martyr (April 29); and Dominic (translation May 24 and Aug. 5)
Prayers on fols. 151r-155r include Psalm 69 followed by versicles and responses; "Deus cui p[ro]priu[m] e[st] misereri . . . ut q[uo]s delictoru[m] cathena co[n]stringit"; "Exaudi q[uesumu]s d[omi]ne supplicum preces" (fol. 152v); "Deus q[ui] culpa offende[r]is" (fol. 153r); "Deus a q[uo] s[an]c[t]a desideria recta consilia" (fol. 153v); and "Fidelium d[eu]s o[mn]iu[m] conditor et rede[m]ptor" (fol. 154r)
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 1470
Italian, gold and silver brocade covers on wooden boards, fluted gilt edges, two silver clasps, one with an engraved Ave Maria (Hail Mary) plaque, fifteenth century(?); rebacked with red morocco, nineteenth century(?)
Latin
Note in sixteenth-century cursive hand on front pastedown: "Iste liber est sororis artemia picholominj" (This book belongs to Sister Artemesia Piccolomini); Susan B. Minns (sold at American Art Association, 2-3 May 1922, lot 421); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
Italy
Circa 1470
Latin
Note in sixteenth-century cursive hand on front pastedown: "Iste liber est sororis artemia picholominj"
This compact Book of Hours, housed in a worn but apparently original brocade binding with original silver clasps, was produced around 1470 in Siena and contains three miniatures painted by Liberale da Verona. These small and extremely refined miniatures represent Christ as Man of Sorrows supported by Angels (fol. 91v), Death standing in a landscape (fol. 95v), and the penitent King David (fol. 132v). The script is humanistic in style with some characteristics of Italian Rotunda. The manuscript begins with a calendar for Dominican Use (fols. 2r-13v), followed by the Hours of the Virgin for the Use of Rome (fols. 15r-91r), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 92r-95r), the Office of the Dead (fols. 95r-131v), and the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers (fols. 133r-155r). The incipit pages for the four major textual sections are decorated with full white-vine or "bianchi girari" scroll borders that connect to the illuminated initials contained within. Smaller white vine initials, with no illuminated borders, mark the post-Matins sections of the Hours of the Virgin.
Several entries in calendar suggest Dominican Use, including Saints Thomas Aquinas (translation Jan. 28 and Mar. 7); Peter Martyr (April 29); and Dominic (translation May 24 and Aug. 5)
Prayers on fols. 151r-155r include Psalm 69 followed by versicles and responses; "Deus cui p[ro]priu[m] e[st] misereri . . . ut q[uo]s delictoru[m] cathena co[n]stringit"; "Exaudi q[uesumu]s d[omi]ne supplicum preces" (fol. 152v); "Deus q[ui] culpa offende[r]is" (fol. 153r); "Deus a q[uo] s[an]c[t]a desideria recta consilia" (fol. 153v); and "Fidelium d[eu]s o[mn]iu[m] conditor et rede[m]ptor" (fol. 154r)
Humanistic
Three full-page miniatures (perhaps with an additional miniature of the Annunciation missing between fols. 14v-15r); four white vine scroll borders with initials attached; seven stand-alone white vine scroll initials; illuminated and decorated initials throughout
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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