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BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rome, in Latin. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Italy, circa 1450]
122x90mm, 231 leaves, including 3 original final blank leaves, COMPLETE except some cut-out initials. Collation: 112 2-810 96 10-1610 174 (1 cancelled) 184 19-2010 21-228 2312 2410 258. 12 lines, justification 69x55mm, written in brown ink in a gothic rotunda, rubrics in red, initials in blue or red, 2 illuminated and 8 historiated initials (many rubbed, a further 4 very roughly cut-out), within full or ¾ borders of painted flowers, leaves and ivy leaves in colours and gold, occasionally with birds or angels, one full-page miniature of the Betrayal (very rubbed and smudged). Modern brown morocco by Gozzi. Provenance: Armorial within wreath in lower border of f.13; Torre del Palasciano, gilt stamp on vellum doublure.
TEXT: Calendar (ff.1-12); Hours of the Virgin, Matins (f.13), Lauds (f.23v), Prime (f.37), Terce (f.41), Sext (f.45), None (f.48v), Vespers (f.52), Compline (f.60); Require ad primam et ad matutinam (f.64); Psalms for feast-days (f.69); Office for Advent (f.73v); ff.84-88 blank; Penitential Psalms (f.89); Hours of the Cross (f.113v); Office of the Dead (f.119); Psalter of St.Jerome (f.166); ff.191-193 blank; Prayers, in another hand (f.194); ff.202-203 blank; Hours of the Cross (f.204); Prayers (f.210v); ff.229-231 blank.
ILLUMINATION: This was evidently once a very attractive book. The only full-page miniature, the Betrayal (on f.165) is very smudged; the historiated initials are all on gold ground, the first depicting the Annunciation (f.13) is smudged, followed by 4 of heads of saints in reasonable condition (on ff 45, 48v, 52, 69) and a Cross (f.113v), a skeleton (f.119) is very rubbed; and a saint, perhaps Jerome? (on f.168).
[Italy, circa 1450]
122x90mm, 231 leaves, including 3 original final blank leaves, COMPLETE except some cut-out initials. Collation: 112 2-810 96 10-1610 174 (1 cancelled) 184 19-2010 21-228 2312 2410 258. 12 lines, justification 69x55mm, written in brown ink in a gothic rotunda, rubrics in red, initials in blue or red, 2 illuminated and 8 historiated initials (many rubbed, a further 4 very roughly cut-out), within full or ¾ borders of painted flowers, leaves and ivy leaves in colours and gold, occasionally with birds or angels, one full-page miniature of the Betrayal (very rubbed and smudged). Modern brown morocco by Gozzi. Provenance: Armorial within wreath in lower border of f.13; Torre del Palasciano, gilt stamp on vellum doublure.
TEXT: Calendar (ff.1-12); Hours of the Virgin, Matins (f.13), Lauds (f.23v), Prime (f.37), Terce (f.41), Sext (f.45), None (f.48v), Vespers (f.52), Compline (f.60); Require ad primam et ad matutinam (f.64); Psalms for feast-days (f.69); Office for Advent (f.73v); ff.84-88 blank; Penitential Psalms (f.89); Hours of the Cross (f.113v); Office of the Dead (f.119); Psalter of St.Jerome (f.166); ff.191-193 blank; Prayers, in another hand (f.194); ff.202-203 blank; Hours of the Cross (f.204); Prayers (f.210v); ff.229-231 blank.
ILLUMINATION: This was evidently once a very attractive book. The only full-page miniature, the Betrayal (on f.165) is very smudged; the historiated initials are all on gold ground, the first depicting the Annunciation (f.13) is smudged, followed by 4 of heads of saints in reasonable condition (on ff 45, 48v, 52, 69) and a Cross (f.113v), a skeleton (f.119) is very rubbed; and a saint, perhaps Jerome? (on f.168).