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Book of Hours of the Virgin Mary.
Support: parchment; Extent: 144 leaves : 111 x 79 (55 x 38) mm. bound to 115 x 91 mm; Foliation: Parchment, ii (paper) + 144 + i (paper); [1-144]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Written in 14 long lines in brown and red ink.
Written in a humanist hand with later additions to liturgical calendar in a different hand.
Gold and blue used for initials; spaces left for initials that were never completed; illuminated vine and flower (f. 13r).
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.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; title in Zacour-Hirsch "Horae."
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
Written in Italy in the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Contemporary calf, rebacked, split along front hinge, upper cover detached.
Latin, with weekday devotions in Italian (f. 129-133)
Formerly owned by John C. Jackson, 1849 (autograph, f. 1r).
Formerly owned by Rev. William Ely of Philadelphia, purchased in Florence 1875 (note, front endleaf).
Formerly owned by Jacob Riegel, 1934 (note, front endleaf).
Gift of Edwin H. Fetterolf, 1942 (bookplate, front endleaf).
Italy
Written in Italy in the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Latin, with weekday devotions in Italian (f. 129-133)
Formerly owned by John C. Jackson, 1849
Formerly owned by Rev. William Ely of Philadelphia, purchased in Florence 1875
Formerly owned by Jacob Riegel, 1934
Gift of Edwin H. Fetterolf, 1942
Book of Hours of the Virgin Mary.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; title in Zacour-Hirsch "Horae."
Written in a humanist hand with later additions to liturgical calendar in a different hand.
Gold and blue used for initials; spaces left for initials that were never completed; illuminated vine and flower (f. 13r).
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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