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

Title

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

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 240

Associated place

Italian

Place of origin

Italian, Naples

Date

15th century, end

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

iii + 184 + iii fol.

Decoration

Good borders.

Good historiated initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 373)

Binding

18th century, ?Italian: pasteboards; polished brown leather, speckled lightly in black; covers plain, but gilt roll around all outside edges; spine with full gilt tooling, but no original title or label; no evidence of clasps, on this binding or earlier; edges plain; paste-downs and flyleaves of marbled paper, combed in red, yellow, blue, green, and white; green silk bookmark. 101–102 72 c. 33 (book closed).

Title

'...Officium beate Marie Virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane Curie'

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 240

Summary

'...Officium beate Marie Virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane Curie', followed by:

The Penitential Psalms with Litany (fol. 92)

'Officium Mortuorum' (fol. 124)

A Prayer (fol. 175)

On fol. 1 are the arms, gules on a chevron argent between three roses of the second, three roses of the first, a chief sable within a bordure or: perhaps the chief bore some charge.

Date

Written in the 15th century in Italy

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, with some small miniatures, borders, etc.

Physical extent

191 Leaves