(Q45905)
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Officium Beate Marie Virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane ecclesie
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Book of hours
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Sanvito, Bartolomeo
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Isabella d'Este, consort of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, 1474-1539
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Beatty, A. Chester Sir, 1875-1968
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--1450-1500
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ca. 1485-ca. 1494
15. century
1485Gregorian
1494Gregorian
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Extent: 184 leaves, bound : vellum ; 18 cm.
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Title from explicit, f. 68v.
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Written by Bartolomeo Sanvito of Padua in an upright humanistic hand in light brown ink in one column,with initial letters and rubrics in gold, blue and red.
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Probably written for Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, Marchioness of Mantua. See de la Mare.
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There are 7 large historiated initials.
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21 leaves are missing, 15 of which contained full-page miniatures. Two of these are in the Musée Condé in Chantilly, France.
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Bound in 18th-century Italian red morocco, tooled in gilt.
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In a 19th-century red morocco tray case, 20 cm.
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A. Chester Beatty (label on spine "W.MS. III 120"; sale, Sotheby's, 9 May 1933, lot 64).
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Gift of Philip Hofer, 1967.
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23 July 2024
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23 July 2024
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