Book of Hours, Use of Rome-Angers — c. 1515; French, Anjou
MS. Canon. Liturg. 178
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Description
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Title
Book of Hours, Use of Rome-Angers — c. 1515; French, Anjou
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 178
Associated place
Italian
Place of origin
French, Anjou
Date
c. 1515
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii + 114 + 11 fol.
Decoration
Some fine, many good miniatures.
Borders, many with cordelières.
Initials. Related to the style of the MSS. made for Louis XII in the region of Rouen. (Pächt and Alexander i. 827, pl. LX). By the Master of Morgan 85.
Binding
18th century, Italian, a standard style of binding for Jacopo Soranzo: thin pasteboards; plain parchment cover with fore-edges turned in; gilt red-leather spine-label; paste-downs and flyleaves of carta bassanese; gilt edges and faint gauffering from previous binding. 193–6 c. 120–122 c. 35 (book closed).
18th century, Italian: an ill-fitting telescopic box of thin card, covered with brown leather stippled in black; blind-tooled with corner-stamps and double lines forming a lozenge pattern on each side; lining of (different) carta bassanese, with large floral pattern on a stippled yellow background. 201–202 130 36–37 with MS. inside, closing not quite fully – box made for another Hours?
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Title
'...Officium diue & immaculate Virginis Marie: secundum vsum & consuetudinem Romane Curie'
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 178
Summary
'... Officium diue & immaculate Virginis Marie: secundum vsum & consuetudinem Romane Curie', preceded by a Calendar (fol. 1), and Capitula from the Gospels (fol. 7), and followed by:
The Penitential Psalms with Litany (fol. 58)
The 'Vigilie Mortuorum' (fol. 71)
Suffrages (fol. 98), and small pieces, some with French rubrics
The Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit are worked in, at fols. 32, 33v, etc. The Calendar is Roman, but the Litany points unmistakeably to Anjou or N. W. France (Stt. Cerenicus, Licinius, Magnobodus, Avia, etc.). There are 14 large miniatures, finely executed, and some smaller ones, with borders, etc.: each plain page has a rope-work ornament round the text.
Some later (16th cent.) additions on fols. 112-4 end with 'Quod faueas sibi Dandula te Nicolosa precatur | Aeterni mater uirgo Maria Dei.'.
Date
Written in the first quarter of the 16th century in France
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, illuminated, in a case slightly larger
Physical extent
116 Leaves
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
'...Officium diue & immaculate Virginis Marie: secundum vsum & consuetudinem Romane Curie'
