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This manuscript contains a Book of Hours, Use of Rome.
Support: Parchment; Extent: iii+121+iii; 185x132 mm bound to 190x136 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1 (6), 2-10 (8), 11 (10), 12 (8), 13-14 (10), 15 (6, -6); Catchwords: Horizontal center of margin verso in black ink decorated with pen flourishes; fols. 14v, 22v, 30v, 46v, 54v, 62v, 70v, 78v, 108v, 118v
Frame-ruled in red ink; One column of twenty-two lines; written area: 105x79 mm
Gothic--textualis quadrata
Fifteen historiated initials; five-line, three-line, and one-line initials in red, blue and gold with pen flourishing throughout; rubrication throughout
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Naples, Italy
Circa 1490
Nineteenth-century green velvet with gilt edges
Latin
Robert Hoe (sold 1912); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Bookplates of Robert Hoe and John Frederick Lewis on front inside cover
Naples, Italy
Circa 1490
Latin
Robert Hoe
This manuscript contains a Book of Hours, Use of Rome.
Gothic--textualis quadrata
Fifteen historiated initials; five-line, three-line, and one-line initials in red, blue and gold with pen flourishing throughout; rubrication 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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