Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 15th century, end; Italian, Venice or Padua

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 15th century, end; Italian, Venice or Padua

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 242

Associated place

Italian

Place of origin

Italian, Venice or Padua

Date

15th century, end

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

2 + 204 (205) + 1 fol.

Decoration

Fine historiated border.

Fine initials (partly damaged). (Pächt and Alexander ii. 575, pl. LIV)

Binding

18th century?, Italian: pasteboards; polished light-brown leather, blind-tooled with lines, rolls and stamps to form a panel with blank centre on each cover; blind roll also around edges of boards; spine blind-tooled with lines and a floral stamp, no title or original label; no clasps, but traces on back endleaf (fol. 205v) of two possible clasps from a previous binding; gilt edges, perhaps gauffered, now badly worn and uneven after resewing. Fol. 1r is so badly rubbed that before the present rebinding the volume may have been left without a front cover for a long period. 103–104 c. 73–5 c. 40 (book closed). Cf. MS. Canon. Liturg. 267 for a similar binding.

Title

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

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 242

Summary

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

'Missa beate Marie Virginis' (fol. 90)

'Offitium in agenda Mortuorum' (fol. 94b)

Penitential Psalms with Litany (fol. 154)

'Offitium sanctissime Crucis' (fol. 181)

'Offitium Spiritus Sancti' (fol. 186)

'Missa de Spiritu Sancto' (fol. 191)

'Letanie gloriose Virginis Marie' (fol. 196), etc.

An injured coat of arms is on fol. 1.

Date

Written in the second half of the 15th century in Italy

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, with some fine illuminations, borders, etc., partly rubbed

Physical extent

206 Leaves