Layout: 14 long lines ruled in ink Script: Rounded gothic book hand. Decoration: Four historiated initials. Binding: Bound, s. XVII, in leather over pasteboards, blind stamped with a rosette surrounding the IHS monogram; evidence of 2 fore edge clasps closing from top to bottom; 3 fore edge tabs; on the front pastedown, a woodcut of the Crucifixion. Gatherings of 10 leaves, except for the 11th (of 8) and the last two (of 2, counting pastedown) Provenance: On ff. 105v, 109v-141v, in margins, notes of the Floriani family, 1591-1702, in areas near Bologna (S. Martino in Argile, S. Lorenzo del Castello di Budrio, Dozza; Budrio); Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mayor of San Francisco. Given to his daughter, Rosa Sutro Morbio (1858-1942) in 1890. Donated to the Sutro Library by her son, Carlo Sutro Morbio (1888-1971), about 1970. Bibliography: Not in De Ricci. ff. 1-172v: ff. i-iii verso, additions; ff. 1-79, Hours of the BVM; ff. 79v-80v, added prayers; ff. 81-105v, Penitential psalms & litany; ff. 106-108v, rhyming prayer in Italian; ff. 109-165, Office of the Dead; ff. 166-169v, Office of the Cross; ff. 170-172v, added.
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