Book of hours : use of Rome : in Latin]. (DS3471) (Q17195)

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Book of hours : use of Rome : in Latin]. (DS3471)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444807, MS q Med.136)

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    28 November 2023
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    Book of hours : use of Rome : in Latin].
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    Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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    between 1470 and 1480
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    Extent: 184 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 132 x 95 (61 x 42) mm
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    Ms. codex.
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    In Latin.
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    Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Date, place of production, and name of illuminator from Francesca Manzari in the 2016 Beyond words exhibition catalog (number 229).
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    Secundo folio: Februarius habet dies xxviii ...
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    Collation: Parchment, fol. ii + 184 + ii ; 112 2-710 88 94 ; decorative catchwords, lower center margin final verso of each quire, surrounded by four penwork flowers. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each recto.
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    Layout: One column, thirteen lines. Bounding and writings lines in purple plummet.
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    Script: Written in an Italian rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
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    Decoration (primary): One full-page miniature: The Three Living and the Three Dead (fol. 85v, The Office of the Dead). Four five- to seven-line miniatures: The Virgin and Child with marginal portraits of four saints (fol. 13, seven-line historiated initial) -- A skeleton wearing a crown (fol. 86, seven-line historiated initial) -- King David playing a lyre (fol. 139, five-line historiated...
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    Decoration (secondary): One-line initials throughout alternating red and blue; two-line initials throughout alternating gold with blue filigree or blue with red, with harping and filigree extending the height of the margin; eight five-line initials in colors on gold with acanthus, filled in blue with gold filigree highlighting with gold balls in outer margin, at the beginning of each Hour of...
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    Binding: Ca. 19th-century French red morocco over pasteboard (unstamped, but attributed to Derome in 1909 catalogue), gilt fillet border and filigree turn-ins, spine gilt-stamped in compartments, "OFFICIUM/ VIRGINES/ MSS SUR/ VEL. AVEC/ MINIAT."; marbled paper pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves front and back; paper flyleaf at front and back, partial watermark IVH, all edges gilt.
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    Origin: Written in Florence between 1470 and 1480. Illuminated by Antonio di Niccolò di Domenico. See Beyond words catalog, no. 229.
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    Provenance: Owned by Louis Cesar de la Baume Le Blanc (a.k.a. the Due de La Valliere, d. 1780), his December 1783 sale, lot 322; owned by Robert Hoe, nr. 30 in his 1909 catalogue, his sale at Anderson, Cat. 906 (4/24/1911), no. 2156; Bernard d'Hézy (his bookplate, fol. ii verso); Quaritch Cat. 328 (1914), no. 579; cat. for 1931, no. 77; cat. 594 (1941), no. 30; and cat. 613 (1943), no. 23...
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    Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL from Maggs in 1955 (BPL plate inside front cover and acquisition note on fol. 1).
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    Call number: MS q Med.136.
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    Former call number: MS 1560.
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    Bibliography: More Books/BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 62-63; Nancy Netzer, ed., Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), no. 84; Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 229.
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    4 December 2023
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