Book of Hours, Use of Rome., Office of the Virgin, Penitential psalms, Litany, Collects of SS. Ligerius and Humphrey, Psalm 90, Quicunque vult, Mass of the Virgin, Litany of the Virgin, Prayers, The fifteen Oes of St. Brigid, Ten commandments, seven gifts of the Spirit, works of spiritual and corporal mercy, sacraments and virtues, five senses — c. 1500; Italian, Venice

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome., Office of the Virgin, Penitential psalms, Litany, Collects of SS. Ligerius and Humphrey, Psalm 90, Quicunque vult, Mass of the Virgin, Litany of the Virgin, Prayers, The fifteen Oes of St. Brigid, Ten commandments, seven gifts of the Spirit, works of spiritual and corporal mercy, sacraments and virtues, five senses — c. 1500; Italian, Venice

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. liturg. g. 4

Place of origin

Italian, Venice

Date

c. 1500

Language

Italian

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

iii + 218 leaves

Decoration

Three full page miniatures showing the Annunciation (fol.iiiv); David penitent (fol.97v); the Nativity (fol.143v), of which the first and third appear to be incomplete.

Facing these are: (1) leaf scroll and flower borders, two with insets of animals in landscape.

(2) historiated initials showing the Virgin and Child, king David and a priest celebrating Mass respectively

A few smaller initials in gold, blue and green.

The rest red and blue with violet and red flourishes

Binding

19th cent. calf binding over boards.

Acquisition

Given by George James Dew, 1931.

Provenance

Arms of the Balbi family of Venice, fols. 1, foot: gules a fess per pale or and azure.

Written for a nun (feminine forms in prayers, fols. 157v, 163v, 169v, 201), perhaps a member of the Franciscan convent of St. Louis of Toulouse at Venice (St. Louis is in the confiteor, fol. 141v)