Book of Hours, Use of Rome — c. 1430; Netherlandish, Utrecht
MS. Canon. Liturg. 17
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Description
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Title
Book of Hours, Use of Rome — c. 1430; Netherlandish, Utrecht
John Dastin — 1477; Italian, North-east
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 17
Place of origin
Italian, North-east
Netherlandish, Utrecht
Date
1477
c. 1430
Language
Latin
Contents
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Title
Collection of two Latin MSS.
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 17
Summary
A. Fol. 26. '... Hore beate Marie Virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane ecclesie':
Preceded by a Calendar (fol. 1) and '... Hore de Sancta Cruce' (fol. 14), etc.
Followed by the Penitential Psalms and Litany (fol. 72), and the 'Vigilie Mortuorum' (fol. 89)
There are ten full-page miniatures in French or Flemish style: 'Gheertrudis' in the Calendar points to the latter: but the occurrence of Nicasius in red (Dec. 14) to Rheims or Arras
A leaf or two is lost after fol. 16
B. Written in 1477, fol. 103b. 'Incipit liber qui intitulatur Roxarius [Rosarius], compositus per magistrum ... [several words erased]':
At end (fol. 168v) 'Explicit liber qui intitulatur Roxarius ferrens roxas tam albas quam rubeas, compositus per magistrum Arnaldum de Villa Noua' later hands call the work the Rosa Medicinae of Johannes Anglicus (=John of Gaddesden), to which it bears no resemblance
It is an alchemical treatise on the Philosopher's stone or Secretum Secretorum (prologue beg. 'Desiderabile desiderium', text beg. 'Vniuersa diuine bonitatis opera'), but, though ascribed to Arnoldus in many MSS., is not the work printed as Rosarius Philosophorum in his Opera
Some miscellaneous matter follows, partly in the hand of the scribe of the preceding work (with 'Expleui scribere penultimo Aprilis 1477', fol. 172v), partly later, but nearly all on alchemical subjects
Date
Written in the 15th century in Flanders (?)
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, with illuminations
Physical extent
186 Leaves
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
Collection of two Latin MSS.
