Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 1497; Italian, Venice
MS. Canon. Liturg. 241
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 1497; Italian, Venice
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 241
Associated place
Venice
Italian
Place of origin
Italian, Venice
Date
1497
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
197 fols.
Decoration
Historiated borders.
Historiated initials (defaced). Written by Hieronymus de Maffeis, fol. 197v. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 592)
Binding
17th century or 18th century, Italian, Venice (MS. from the Benedictine nunnery of San Servolo, Venice): pasteboards; brown polished leather, decorated on each cover with gilt lines and tooling around the edges and a central gilt cross on a base; remains of two fore-edge clasps with lost leather straps; gilt gauffered edges, perhaps inherited from a previous binding for which (if so) the volume was severely trimmed; spine mostly lost, but a fragment with gilt lines and leaf-tools preserved inside back cover. Rebacked in brown leather, late 19th or 20th century, Bodleian. A miniature book, 92–93 65–67 c. 30–33 (book closed).
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Title
'...Officium beate & gloriose Virginis Marie'
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 241
Summary
'...Officium beate & gloriose Virginis Marie' (according to the use of Rome), followed by:
'Officium in agenda Mortuorum' (fol. 73)
Penitential Psalms with Litany (fol. 114b)
'Officium sancte Crucis' (fol. 136) with Prayers
'Versus sancti Bernardi' (fol. 168v)
'Psalmi Graduates' (fol. 178v)
'Officium sanctissime Crucis' again (fol. 194)
Date
Written in 1497 in North Italy by Hier. de Maffeis
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, with some small miniatures, borders, etc.
Physical extent
198 Leaves
Custodial history
At end 'Hieronymus de Maffeis scripsit hoc opus iuxta precium satis competenter: anno Domini 1497: xxvij Aprilis, tempore quo Karolus [viii] rex Francorum aggressus: est & expulsus est ex Ytalia.'.
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
'...Officium beate & gloriose Virginis Marie'
