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This manuscript contains a Book of Hours, Use of Rome.
Support: Parchment; Extent: iii+152+iv; 105x70 mm bound to 112x76 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil upper corner recto; Collation: 1 (12), 2 (10, -1), 3-14 (10), 15 (11, +11); Catchwords: Horizontal center of margin verso decorated with simple pen flourishes: fol. 21v; Vertical inner margin verso decorated with simple pen flourishes: fols. 31v, 41v, 51v, 61v, 71v, 81v, 91v, 101v, 111v, 121v, 131v, 141v, 151v
Frame-ruled in ink; one column of fifteen lines; written area: 58x40 mm
Gothic--textualis
Three historiated initials within full-page floral borders containing medallions of butterflies, birds, and deer in Ferrarase style: empty cross (fol. 80r), King David (fol. 85r), skull (fol. 105r); fourteen initials with marginal decoration in gold and colors; one-line and two-line initials in red and blue throughout with decorative pen flourishing, flowers, grotesque heads, flowers, and foliation; rubrication throughout
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Ferrara, Italy
Late fifteenth century
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Francisco Carbicei of Forli, Brescia, 1602; Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; obtained in 1919 by John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
Ferrara, Italy
Late fifteenth century
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Francisco Carbicei of Forli, Brescia, 1602; Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; obtained in 1919 by John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
This manuscript contains a Book of Hours, Use of Rome.
Gothic--textualis
Three historiated initials within full-page floral borders containing medallions of butterflies, birds, and deer in Ferrarase style: empty cross (fol. 80r), King David (fol. 85r), skull (fol. 105r); fourteen initials with marginal decoration in gold and colors; one-line and two-line initials in red and blue throughout with decorative pen flourishing, flowers, grotesque heads, flowers, and foliation; 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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