Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Other related names

• Morgan, John, former owner
• Maggs Bros., former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82075696.html)
• Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 121
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1538090
• deRicci: 97

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Florence, Italy

Summary

This manuscript contains a Book of Hours, Use of Rome.

Notes

• Gothic--textualis (fols. 198v-199v)
   

Extent

Iii+199+iii; 129x87 mm bound to 135x95 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper corner recto

Collation

1 (12), 2-14 (10), 15 (8), 16-19 (10), 20 (10, -10)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Vertical near the gutter verso; fols. 22v, 32v, 42v, 52v, 62v, 72v, 82v, 92v, 102v, 112v, 122v, 142v, 152v, 160v, 170v, 180v, 190v

Binding

Nineteenth-century, red morocco, gilt inner edges with clasp, LIBER PRECIS stamped in gold on spine; in red case with morocco-backed spine, gold-stamped HORAE B. M. VIRGINIS M.S. XV. SAEC.

Layout

Frame-ruled in ink; one column of thirteen lines (calendar, fols. 1-12, frame-ruled in one column of seventeen lines); written area: 68x50 mm

Decoration

Two historiated initials, three decorated initials, five foliate borders; one- and two-line initials in red and blue throughout; rubrication throughout

Script

Humanistic

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Abbey of Passignano, Italy (late fifteenth century); bookplate of John Morgan, Rubislaw House, Aberdeen; sold London, Sotheby's (26 February 1900) to Tregaskis (cat. 463, 2 Apr. 1900, n. 388; cat. 468, 9 July 1900, n. 500); Maggs (after 1900); bookplate of John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2041, no. 97.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 135, no. 121.

Subjects topical

• Books of hours
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic
• Italy

Genres

• Liturgical use

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Book of Hours
• Gothic
• Historiated initial
• Private devotional text
• Devotion

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, Use of Florence
• fol. 13r — Office of the Virgin, Use of Rome
• fol. 85r — Office of the Dead, Rome use
• fol. 133r — Penitential Psalms
• fol. 158r — Long Hours of the Cross
• fol. 194r — Short Hours of the Cross
• fol. 198v — Variation of the prayer to the Virgin, "Sancta Maria succurre miseris" (added by contemporary hand)

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate
• fol. 13r — Four line historiated initial D, Virgin and Child
• fol. 13r — Full foliate border
• fol. 85r — Historiated partial foliate border, saint and a crane
• fol. 85r — Four line historiated initial D, corpse
• fol. 91v — Three line decorated initial U
• fol. 91v — Historiated border, God and worshipers
• fol. 133r — Decorated initial D, penitent King David in lower margin
• fol. 133r — Historiated full foliate border
• fol. 158r — Historiated partial foliate border, kings and birds
• fol. 158r — Decorated initial D, King David in lower margin
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate