Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 15th century, second quarter; Italian, Verona (?)

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 15th century, second quarter; Italian, Verona (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 261

Associated place

Italian

Place of origin

Italian, Verona (?)

Date

15th century, second quarter

Language

Italian

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i + 191 + i fol.

Decoration

Fine borders.

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 631, pl. LXI)

Binding

16th century, late, or 17th century, Italian: wood? boards; brown leather, tooled on each cover with gilt lines, stamps and a roll in an elaborate panel enclosing a Crucifixion (front) or Virgin and Child (back), each with stars in an oval with ‘SVOR.MARIA.IN.LVMINA.TRAVIS.’; spine gilt with same roll, no title; board-edges also tooled with a gilt roll; remains of two clasps with fittings, all under the leather, straps lost; edges gilt. Added paste-downs and flyleaves of carta bassanese, 18th century, Italian. 137–139 c. 95 c. 38–40 (book closed). Manuscript written for a Benedictine nun, and evidently rebound for this later ‘Suor Maria’.

Title

'...Officium beate Marie Virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane Curie'

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 261

Summary

'...Officium beate Marie Virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane Curie', followed by:

'Officium sanctissime Crucis' (fol. 78: imperf. at beg.)

Penitential Psalms with Litany (fol. 81v)

'Officium Defunctorum' (fol. 115)

Commendatio animarum (fol. 177: imperf. at end)

Leaves are wanting after fols. 77 and 191. Italian rubrics occur. The binding is dark leather on boards, with gold tooling: on the sides the Crucifixion and the Virgin and Child, with maria.in.lvmina.travis.svor round them (16th cent. ?).

Date

Written in the 15th century in Italy

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, with a few illuminated borders, capitals, etc., binding, see below

Physical extent

192 Leaves