Book of hours; use of Rome (DS12718) (Q53964)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of California, Berkeley (991047928849706532, BANC MS UCB 139, https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991047928849706532)
  • Book of hours (Ms. UCB 139)
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Book of hours; use of Rome (DS12718)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of California, Berkeley (991047928849706532, BANC MS UCB 139, https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991047928849706532)
  • Book of hours (Ms. UCB 139)

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Book of hours; use of Rome
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Book of hours (Ms. UCB 139)
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Illuminated initials (Layout features)
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Manuscrits médiévaux--Californie--Berkeley
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Manuscrits latins médiévaux et modernes--Californie--Berkeley
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Manuscripts, Medieval--California--Berkeley
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--California--Berkeley
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Latin, with some instructions in French
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Extent: 108 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 126 x 83 (72 x 46) mm bound to 133 x 84 mm
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parchment, color illustrations
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Acquisition note in upper right corner of fol. 2: "nef[uncertain letter; possibly a price code], Dawson Turner, bought at Paris, 1814." The library of Dawson Turner (1775-1858), father-in-law of Sir Francis Palgrave, Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, was dispersed at auction by Sotheby's on 7 March 1853
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Contents list of the volume on fol. 1v, signed by, or attributed to, the Rev. Frederick Charles Husenbeth (1796-1872), a Roman Catholic priest and prolific editor and author.
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Ms. codex.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Collation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + i (flyleaf) + 108 + i (parchment) + ii (modern paper) + ii (pastedown from Glossa Ordinaria); fol. 2 and 3 are contemporary leaves, ruled but blank; 16 ( -3 before fol. 1) 26 36 ( -1 before fol. 10 and 1 before fol. 13) 4/+8 \( -1 before fol. 15) 5-68 78 ( -1 before fol. 43) 810 ( -1 before fol. 47) 98 ( -1 before fol. 53) 108 ( -stub extended with...
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Layout: 21 long lines (but 17-19 on fol. 63-64v and 66-67v, written by a second scribe; the two sets of leaves are apparently not conjoint); ruled in pale red ink with single bounding lines, both horizontal and vertical full length.
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Script: Written in an elegant formal bâtarde script; fol. 63-64v and 66-67v copied by a second scribe in a larger and rounder version of the same script.
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Decoration: Of the original 24 miniatures, only 11 remain, 8-10 lines in height and enclosed by narrow gold square frames, with full borders with multicolored acanthus, birds, flowers, insects and fruits on painted gold ground. Miniatures include Luke, Matthew, the Visitation, the Nativity, Annunciation to the shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, and Presentation in the temple, suffrages of...
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Binding: Original binding consisted of brown morocco over pasteboards with a simple frame and cross, blind tooled on front cover, and gold tooled on the back, with a narrow gold rule around the top, outer, and bottom edge of the binding, and on the turn-ins; orange silk pastedowns; evidence of 2 fore-edge ties; gilt edges. In 1997 the book was rebound in full brown goatskin by the UC...
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Accompanying materials: Original binding now stored in box with codex.
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Origin: Written in northern France, perhaps in the area of Bourges, during the 1480s. On fol. 1; notes in ink, all in the same careful hand (almost certainly that of Dawson Turner but difficult to compare against the signature), report the opinions of three people on the manuscript. The first note reads, "French; of the 15th Century: beautiful art. (Sir F. Palgrave)"; the second, "Sir F...
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Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 139.
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Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS BX2080.B7 146x.
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2. fol. 10r-11v: Pericopes of the Gospels, beginning defectively in gospel extract from John and ending defectively in gospel extract from Matthew.
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6. fol. 63r-64v: Short Hours of the Holy Cross, beginning defectively.
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7. fol. 65r-v: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit, beginning and ending defectively.
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8. fol. 66r-93v: Office of the Dead, use of Rome, beginning defectively in Ps. 114:6.
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9. fol. 93r-95v: Suffrages of the Trinity, Michael archangel, John the Baptist (rubric only), Andrew, Martin (rubric only, but perhaps in scribal error since the text continues on the top of the following verso), Stephen, Lawrence (rubric only).
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16. fol. v-vi: Fragment from commentary from Glossa Ordinaria on 3 Kings VI. 16 and on Paralipomenon III. 6.
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20 September 2024
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20 September 2024
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