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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Other related names

• Carbicei, Francisco, former owner
• Richardson, Thomas F., former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 122
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 101

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Ferrara, Italy

Summary

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

Extent

Iii+152+iv; 105x70 mm bound to 112x76 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil upper corner recto

Collation

1 (12), 2 (10, -1), 3-14 (10), 15 (11, +11)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal center of margin verso decorated with simple pen flourishes: fol. 21v; Vertical inner margin verso decorated with simple pen flourishes: fols. 31v, 41v, 51v, 61v, 71v, 81v, 91v, 101v, 111v, 121v, 131v, 141v, 151v

Layout

Frame-ruled in ink; one column of fifteen lines; written area: 58x40 mm

Decoration

Three historiated initials within full-page floral borders containing medallions of butterflies, birds, and deer in Ferrarase style: empty cross (fol. 80r), King David (fol. 85r), skull (fol. 105r); fourteen initials with marginal decoration in gold and colors; one-line and two-line initials in red and blue throughout with decorative pen flourishing, flowers, grotesque heads, flowers, and foliation; rubrication throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Francisco Carbicei of Forli, Brescia, 1602; Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; obtained in 1919 by John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Liturgical use

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• Christian
• Italy
• Historiated initial

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 13r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome
• fol. 80r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 85r — Penitential Psalms
• fol. 96v — Litany
• fol. 105r — Office of the Dead

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Signature, T. F. Richardson
• Inside front cover — Manuscript description
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Signature, Livia Costanza Caterina De' Medici
• Flyleaf 3 verso — Inscription, "Domni Frncisci Carbicei Forliviensis ex Castro, anno 1602 Kalendas Maias Brixiae"
• fol. 23r — Seven line decorated initial D and border
• fol. 35r — Seven line decorated initial D and border
• fol. 40r — Seven line decorated initial D and border
• fol. 44r — Seven line decorated initial D and border
• fol. 50v — Seven line decorated initial D and border
• fol. 58r — Seven line decorated initial C and border
• fol. 80r — Seven line historiated initial, empty cross, Initial O
• fol. 80r — Floral border containing medallions of butterflies and birds
• fol. 81v — Decorated initial and border
• fol. 82r — Decorated initial and border
• fol. 82v — Decorated initial and border
• fol. 83r — Decorated initial and border
• fol. 83v — Decorated initial and border
• fol. 84r — Decorated initial and border
• fol. 85r — Historiated initial, King David
• fol. 85r — Floral border with medallions of butterfly and deer
• fol. 105r — Floral border containing medallions of butterfly and deer
• fol. 105r — Eight line historiated initial, Human skull, Initial D
• fol. 147r — Decorated initial and border
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Signature, Livia Costanza Caterina De' Medici
• Flyleaf 3 verso — Inscription, "Domni Frncisci Carbicei Forliviensis ex Castro, anno 1602 Kalendas Maias Brixiae"