Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 15th century, middle; Italian, Bologna (?)
MS. Canon. Liturg. 267
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Description
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Title
Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 15th century, middle; Italian, Bologna (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 267
Associated place
Italian
Place of origin
Italian, Bologna (?)
Date
15th century, middle
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
1 + 318 (329) + 2 fol.
Decoration
Fine borders.
Fine historiated initials.
Fine other initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 663, pl. LXIV)
Binding
18th century?, Italian: wood? boards; polished light-brown leather, blind-tooled with lines, stamps and a roll to form a panel with a simple decorative centrepiece on each cover; blind lines and floral stamps on spine, but no title or original label; extreme edges of covers also blind-tooled; clasps never present on this binding, no signs of previous fittings; edges gilt, gauffered, but uneven after resewing so perhaps inherited from a previous binding. 129 92–94 c. 57–58 (book closed). Cf. MS. Canon. Liturg. 242 (similar leather and style, though not same tools).
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Title
'...Officium beate Marie Virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane Ecclesie'
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 267
Summary
'...Officium beate Marie Virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane Ecclesie', preceded by a calendar (fol. 1), and followed by:
The Penitential Psalms with litany (fol, 92b)
'Officium in agenda Mortuorum' (fol. 118e)
'Officium sancte Crucis ordinatum et compositum per ... papam Johannem xxij ...' (fol. 167)
'Officium deuotissime Crucis et Passionis ... Ihesu Christi', hours of the Passion (fol. 175c)
Hours of the Holy Spirit, composed in or before 1308 (fol. 204v)
'Officium sacratissimi sacrumsancti Sacramenti Corporis & Sanguinis Domini ... compilatum per dominum Benedictum [xi] papam ...' A.D. 1338 (fol. 207v)
At fol. 212d is '... Tractato de san Thomaso daquino de la Confessione', in Italian
Prayers (fol. 265) among which are 'Oratio sancti Antonii de Viana' (fol. 277) and 'Oratio sancti Guinifortis' (Gunifortus of Pavia: ibid.)
A few psalms, and (fol. 308v) 'Miser Francesco Petrarcha Laude de beata Virgine Maria', beg. 'Coronata de stelle.'
This book was written for a person named Gaspar, whose name occurs in prayers on fols. 265, 273, 275, 277, 282r, 282v, 283. A much-injured coat of arms (?) is on fol. 13.
Date
Written in the second half of the 15th century in North Italy
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, with some small miniatures, borders, etc.
Physical extent
331 Leaves
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
'...Officium beate Marie Virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane Ecclesie'
