Book of Hours, use of Rome (DS9672) (Q43020)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18618972, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861897, mssHM 1132)
- Book of hours (Usus Romanus)
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| English | Book of Hours, use of Rome (DS9672) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18618972, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861897, mssHM 1132) |
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Book of hours (Usus Romanus)
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Historiated initials--Italy--15th century
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Books of hours--Italy--15th century
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between 1485 and 1499
15. century
1485Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: ff. i + 238 (of which f. 1 is a flyleaf) + i : parchment ; 97 x 143 mm
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Book of Hours, use of Rome, written at the end of the fifteenth century, possibly in Florence as suggested by the style of the decoration.
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Span folios: ff. 1-238v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Collation beginning at f. 2, 112 210(+1) 3-910 1010(through f. 104) 1110(+1, f. 105) 12-1610 17(2 leaves, ff. 166-167, presumably the beginning of a quire whose remaining leaves are now bound at the end as ff. 230-238) 1810(+1, f. 168) 1910 2010(through f. 198) 2110(+1, f. 199) 2210 2310(through f. 229, which shows signs of wear on the...
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Decoration: Five full page miniatures on the versos of inserted leaves, blank on the recto, in a style similar to that of Francesco d'Antonio del Cherico; rectos facing the miniatures with matching full borders and 7-line historiated initials. Secondary initials, 3-line, in white-patterned colors on a gold and colored ground with acanthus leaf marginal extensions and black-rayed gold dots...
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/13/2009.
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The coat of arms on f. 15, apparently original, is that of the Morelli family of Turin (see J. Gelli, 3500 Ex Libris Italiani (Milan 1908) fig. 425) gules two lion's jambs or in saltire paws to the chief and in chief a chess-rook or. Other arms added later on f. 1v, and covering an earlier escutcheon, azure five mullets of eight points in a cross or (possibly a variant of the arms of the...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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