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Title

Book of Hours, use of Rome

Other related names

• Gratz, Simon, 1840-1925, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99029010.html)
• Strong, George T., former owner
• Sforza, former owner
• De Raude, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 206
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Italian

Origin

Place

Milan, Italy

Summary

This Book of Hours, of the Use of Rome, was likely made in Milan around 1520; its miniatures are typical of Milanese miniature painting of the third decade of the sixteenth century. The book begins with a calendar with includes Saint Ambrose, bishop of Milan. There follow three full-page prefatory miniatures depicting an unidentified female martyr, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, and the Virgin and Child respectively, prior the the Hours of the Virgin. The first page of the Hours of the Virgin (fol. 17r) is ornamented with a full foliate border and includes, in its lower margin, a cartouche with the Sforza "Biscione" (sinister) and De Raude/da Rho (dexter) coats of arms and lettering, somewhat damaged, which can be read as "Cornelia de Raude." Each Hour for the Hours of the Virgin and each subsequent textual section begins with a very fine historiated initial; these number thirteen in total. The final prayer, to Christ, is in Italian (fols. 122r-130v).

Extent

Iii+133+ii; 146 x 108 mm bound to 153 x 112 mm

Foliation

Original foliation in red ink, top center recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; references in this entry are to the modern foliation in pencil

Collation

1 (12), 2 (2), 3 (1, +1), 4 (1, +1), 5-17 (8), 18 (8, -2 -3), 19 (8, -8)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Regular catchwords, bottom center, at: 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 72v, 80v, 96v, 104v, 112v

Binding

Eighteenth-century calf, gilt, rebacked

Layout

One column of seventeen lines, rubrication in red; written area: 91 x 70 mm

Decoration

Three full-page miniatures, thirteen historiated initials; foliate border and coat of arms of De Raude/Sforza on fol. 17r

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Arms of original owner on fol. 17r are Sforza "Biscione" (sinister) and De Raude/da Rho (dexter) surrounded by inscription that can be read as "Cornelia de Raude," possibly a reference to Cornelia, illegitimate daughter of Ottaviano Riario (1479-1523), son of Caterina Sforza (tentative identification by Nicholas Herman); George T. Strong (no. 11, sale, New York, 1878, lot 819; his signature with date 1843 on recto of third front flyleaf; "num 2" and "819" on verson of same flyleaf; "G. T. S. no. 11" on fol. 1r); presented to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1925 by Simon Gratz (stamp in gutter of fol. 2r)
   

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 16th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Devotion
• Historiated initial
• Illumination
• Miniature

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, Use of Milan
• fol. 17r — Hours of the Virgin
• fol. 66v — Mass of the Virgin
• fol. 69r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 89r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 116r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 119r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 122r — Prayer to Christ, in Italian

Decorations

• fol. 14r — Full-page miniature, unidentified female martyr
• fol. 15v — Full-page miniature, Saint Catherine of Alexandria
• fol. 16v — Full-page miniature, Virgin and Child
• fol. 17r — Foliate border
• fol. 17r — Coat of arms: De Raude (dexter) impaling Sforza (dexter)
• fol. 17r — Seven line Historiated initial D, Virgin and Child
• fol. 25v — Five line Historiated initial D, A Female Martyr
• fol. 34v — Five line historiated initial D, Saint Peter Martyr
• fol. 37v — Five line historiated initial D, Saint Apollonia
• fol. 40r — Five line historiated initial D, Saint
• fol. 42v — Five line Historiated initial D, A Bishop Saint
• fol. 45r — Five line Historiated initial D, Saint Catherine of Alexandria
• fol. 50r — Historiated initial C, Holy Face
• fol. 66v — Five line Historiated initial S, Virgin and child
• fol. 69r — Five line Historiated initial D, King David
• fol. 89r — Inhabited initial O, Skull resting on a Book (Memento Mori)
• fol. 116r — Five line historiated initial O, A Golden Cross atop a Mound
• fol. 119r — Five line historiated initial O, A Dove
• fol. 122r — Five line historiated initial O, Christ Blessing