Bryn Mawr College, MS 25

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16527

Shelfmark:

MS 25

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome ("Marquand Hours")

Book of hours

Marquand Hours

Place:

Piedmont, Italy

Piedmont TGN

Italy TGN

Date:

1475-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+162+i; 143 x 102 mm bound to 150 x 106 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Porri-Carcani, Marchese

Marchese Porri-Carcani WIKIDATA

Frasconi, Carlo Francesco, 1754-1836

Carlo Francesco Frasconi WIKIDATA

Marquand, Allan, 1853-1924

Allan Marquand WIKIDATA

Marquand, Eleanor Cross, 1873-1950

Eleanor Cross Marquand WIKIDATA

Delanoy, Eleanor Marquand

Eleanor Marquand WIKIDATA

Note:

Previously Marquand 2
Previous foliation skipped leaf between 14 and 15; leaf now numbered 14a
Full-page illuminations rubbed; pages of the calendar and first illumination torn
Binding: Eighteenth-century Italian limp vellum; on spine in ink: "Ufficio, e/ Orationi/ in/ Miniature"
Layout: Single column, fifteen lines, ruled in brown ink, single vertical bounding lines full length; written area: 80 x 57 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: Eleven full-page miniatures surrounded by full borders (Annunciation, fol. 12v; Nativity, fol. 33v; Presentation in the Temple, fol. 39v; Annunciation to the Shepherds, fol. 44v; Adoration of the Magi, fol. 49v; Flight into Egypt, fol. 54v; Coronation of the Virgin, fol. 63v; David with harp, fol. 88v; Funeral service, fol. 112v; Crucifixion, fol. 151v; Pentecost, fol. 157v) with...
Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), v. 2, 1186, no. 2.
Provenance: Written in the Piedmont in final quarter of the fifteenth century; owned in the eighteenth century by the Discalced Augustinians of San Carlo, Turin ("Ex Conventu S. Caroli Taurini FF. Eremit: Discalc: S. Augustini Congregationis Italie et Germanie minor," fol. 1r, in lower margin in an earlier hand); catalogue entry attached: "Ufficio della Madonna in pergamena con ricche...

Keyword:

Italian (culture or style)

Fifteenth century

Italy

Books of hours

Prayers and devotions

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS25.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS25/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College