Grolier Club, MS 11

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS207

Shelfmark:

MS 11

Title:

Book of hours, use of Rome

Place:

Italy, Tuscany?

Italy TGN

Date:

s. XV(4/4); 1475-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Bound, s. XVIII, in Italian embossed silver binding with two fore edge clasps.
Figurative details, ff. 1-241v: Miniature; historiated initials.
Script, ff. 1-241v: Rounded gothic book hand.
Layout, ff. 1-241v: 14 long lines.

Former Owner(s):

Arms: 1, azure a fesse argent between three wheels argent; 2, argent a crescent azure and in chief a label of three points gules. Henry W. Poor sale (New York, 17 November 1908, I, n. 800) to G. D. Smith. Bequest to the Grolier Club by Beverly Chew.

Henry William Poor WIKIDATA

Arms: 1, azure a fesse argent between three wheels argent; 2, argent a crescent azure and in chief a label of three points gules. Henry W. Poor sale (New York, 17 November 1908, I, n. 800) to G. D. Smith. Bequest to the Grolier Club by Beverly Chew.

George D. Smith WIKIDATA

Arms: 1, azure a fesse argent between three wheels argent; 2, argent a crescent azure and in chief a label of three points gules. Henry W. Poor sale (New York, 17 November 1908, I, n. 800) to G. D. Smith. Bequest to the Grolier Club by Beverly Chew.

Beverly Chew WIKIDATA

Note:

Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1291.
ff. 1-241v: A leaf missing between the present ff. 49 and 50.
ff. 1-241v: Latin.
ff. 1-241v: Calendar (incl. Geminianus, Zenobius, Reparata, Cerbonus, Ansanus); Hours of the BVM; Penitential psalms and litany (incl. Zenobius and Reparata); Office of the Dead; Short Hours of the Cross; Hours of the Passion; Short Hours of the Holy Spirit; prayers.

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_MS11_24/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Grolier Club