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Title

Book of hours :

Authors

• Catholic Church

Other related names

• Luini, P. Pacifico, 19th century, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 2136
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978939719803681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1402048529

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with later title and instructions for one later prayer in Italian (f.226r-226v)

Origin

Date

after 1450

Place

Italy

Summary

Miniature book of hours on parchment for the Use of Rome, made in northern Italy in the second half of the 15th century. Illuminated leaves at the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin, the Penitential Psalms, and the Office of the Dead, probably with miniatures, were removed and replaced with parchment leaves with text only, possibly in the 19th century (f. 13, 120, 150-151). Latin prayers for the Eucharist with Italian headings added at the end (f. 224r-227r), probably in the 19th century.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• 1. f.1r-12v: [Calendar] -- 2. f.13r-29v: Ad Matutinum -- 3. f.29v-47r: Ad Laudem -- 4. f.47r-53v: Ad Primam -- 5. f.53v-60r: Ad Tertiam -- 6. f.60r-65v: Ad Sextam -- 7. f.66r-72r: Ad Nonam -- 8. f.72r-83r: Ad Vesperas -- 9. f.83r-115v: Ad Completorium -- 10. f.116r-119v: Missa beate Marie virginis -- 11. f.120r-149v: Septem psalmi penitentiales cum litaniis -- 12. f.150v-206v: Officium defunctorum -- 13. 208r-212r : [Hours of the Cross] -- 14. f.213r-221r: Dulcissime Domine / Beatus Augustinus -- 15. f.221v-223v: Orationes -- 16. f.224r-227r: Orazione à Gesù Chisto [sic] .
   

Extent

227 leaves : 70 x 48 (40 x 28) mm bound to 71 x 54 mm

Collation

Parchment, ii (19th-century (?) paper) + i (parchment) + 227 + iii (19th-century (?) paper); 1¹² 2-6⁸ 7-12¹⁰ 13⁸ 14⁸⁺¹(+9?) 15-16¹⁰ 17⁸⁺¹(+9) 18¹⁰ 19-22⁸ 23⁸⁻² (-7, -8 canceled) 24⁶ 25¹⁰ 26⁴; modern foliation in pencil, [i-iii, 1-227, i-iii], upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Later full leather, blind-tooled and -stamped but very worn; spine leather cracked vertically.

Layout

Written in 13 long lines; ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines.

Decoration

9 illuminated 3- to 6-line initials in pink, blue, green, red, and white on gold grounds with foliate extensions (f. 29v, 47r, 53v, 60r, 66r, 72r, 83r, 116r, 213v); 1- and 2-line initials alternating between red with purple penwork and blue with red penwork throughout; rubrication in red throughout.

Script

Written in Gothic rotunda script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by P. Pacifico Luini, Milan (inscription in ink, f. iii verso).
   
• Sold at auction by Venator & Hanstein (Cologne, Germany), sale 169 (30 September 2022), lot 342.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Latin

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• books of hours
• devotional calendars
• Devotional literature
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Missing leaves
• Devotion

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Calendar]
• fol. 13r — Ad Matutinum
• fol. 29v — Ad Laudem
• fol. 47r — Ad Primam
• fol. 53v — Ad Tertiam
• fol. 60r — Ad Sextam
• fol. 66r — Ad Nonam
• fol. 72r — Ad Vesperas
• fol. 83r — Ad Completorium
• fol. 116r — Missa beate Marie virginis
• fol. 120r — Septem psalmi penitentiales cum litaniis
• fol. 150v — Officium defunctorum
• fol. 208r — [Hours of the Cross]
• fol. 213r — Dulcissime Domine / Beatus Augustinus
• fol. 221v — Orationes
• fol. 224r — Orazione à Gesù Chisto [sic]

Decorations

• fol. 29v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 47r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 53v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 60r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 66r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 72r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 83r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 116r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 213v — Illuminated initial D