Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 15th century, end; Italian, Bologna

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 15th century, end; Italian, Bologna

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 287

Associated place

Venice

Italian

Place of origin

Italian, Bologna

Date

15th century, end

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

iv + 107 + ii fol.

Hands

Humanistic script in gold and silver on purple stained parchment, attributable to Pierantonio Sallando. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 671, pl. LXIV)

Decoration

Fine initials. Mutilated. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 671, pl. LXIV)

Binding

18th century, second half, Italian, Venice, a fine binding, perhaps for M. L. Canonici himself: pasteboards; polished green leather, gilt tooled with rolls (including a Greek key pattern) and floral stamps, framing on each cover a small round centrepiece of a profile male head on spiralling circles; board-edges and turn-ins also gilt-rolled; spine with all-over gilt tools and a gilt red-leather label; paste-downs and flyleaves of marbled paper; white paper flyleaves watermarked ‘ROMA’ with ‘F B’; no clasps; edges gilt and gauffered from an earlier binding; many leaves lost before present binding. 149 97–99 c. 23 (book closed).

18th century, second half, Italian, Venice, telescopic box made for the present binding: thin card with rounded back, covered with red leather; gilt-tooled with thin rolls, stamps, and lines around every edge and every side; box lined with carta bassanese, with a simple geometric zig-zag pattern of red on white. 155–157 106–107 c. 29–30 (box closed). Cf. boxes of MSS. Canon. Liturg. 114 and 178.

Title

Hours of the Virgin, according to the use of Rome

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 287

Summary

Hours of the Virgin, according to the use of Rome, preceded by a calendar of which only four leaves (out of about fifteen) remain, and followed by:

The Office for the Dead (fol. 59)

The Hours of the Holy Spirit (fol. 105)

The writing is in gold, with rubrics in silver, and there are many finely illuminated small capitals. The whole of the parchment is stained purple. Almost every part is mutilated, leaves being lost, besides in the calendar, after fols. 4, 27, 41, 42, 44, 46, 48, 54, 58, 104.

Date

Written in the first half of the 16th century in Italy

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, illuminated, see below, mutilated

Physical extent

109 Leaves