Book of Hours (DS579) (Q2699)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University, Bloomington (Ricketts 141)
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Book of Hours (DS579)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University, Bloomington (Ricketts 141)

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    Written for Giovanni Colonna (1456-1508) or a member of his family (see below); William Bragge 1823-1884); probably no. 63 in Burlington Fine Arts Club 1874, p. 13, lent by Bragge; his sale, Sotheby’s, 7 June 1876, lot 474; Quaritch cat. 31 (June 1876), no. 171, and Quaritch, General Catalogue (1877), no.18381.
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    Edward Quaile (d. 1900); his sale, Sotheby’s, 10 May 1901, lot 223, to Leighton; J. Martini, cat. 17 (1921), no. 17, and cat. 18 (1922), no. 14, at $1,100; C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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    s. XV(4/4); 1475-1499
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    Binding: Bound in early nineteenth-century (probably English) brown straight-grain morocco, gilt edges, paper endleaves; in a fawn cloth case.
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    Figurative details, ff. 1r-168v: 17 large white-vine illuminated initials (fols. 8r, 15r, 20v, 22v, 24r, 25v, 27r, 30v, 37r, 58r, 65r, 73r, 80v, 94v, 104v, 135r and 150r); eleven half-page rectangular miniatures within full white-vine illuminated borders, showing the Nativity of Christ (fol. 7r, Hours of the Virgin), the Magi (fol. 7v, Matins), the Purification, set in a landscape (fol. 37r...
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    Other decoration, ff. 1r-168v: Most opening words of prayers in capitals, sometimes in burnished gold; one- and 2-line initials throughout in alternating blue with extensive red penwork and gold with extensive purple penwork.
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    Script, ff. 1r-168v: Semi- Humanistic Minuscule.
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    Layout, ff. 1r-168v: Collation: i#^6#, ii–xi#^10#, xii#^8# [of 10, lacking v–vi, 2 leaves after fol. 110], xiii#^10#, xiv#^8#, xv–xvii#^10#, xviii#^6#; ruled in brown, apparently in plummet, 20 lines, written-space 121 mm. by 70 mm.
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    Bibliography: Quaile 1897, p. 145, pl. XXVI; De Ricci 1935, p. 638.
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    ff. 1r-168v: Very thumbed and some offsetting from the gold. Coat of arms: family of Colonna, with their arms on fol. 7r, gules a column argentcrowned or.
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    ff. 1r-168v: Latin.
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    ff. 1r-168v: Use of Rome. The text comprises: a Calendar (fol. 1r), of Augustinian use, including the dedication of St Peter’s in Rome on 18 November; the Hours of the Virgin, secundum usum Romane curie offices of the Purification (fol. 37r), the Annunciation (fol. 58v), the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (fol. 65r), the Virgin of the Snows (fol. 73r), the Assumption of the Virgin (fol...
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