Fordham University, MS 03
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS26236
- Shelfmark:
- MS 03
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Rome
- Place:
- Italy, Emilia Romagna
- Date:
- s. XV(2); 1450-1499
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Binding: Later binding in red leather stamped with gold over wood boards; crucifixion on front, Madonna and Child on back; 2 clasps, missing; page edges stamped in gold; paper flyleaves.
Figurative details, ff 1-187v: Historiated initials (missing the leaf for the opening of the Hours of the Virgin).
Other decoration, ff 1-187v: One-line gold initials with alternating red, blue, and purple flourishing; three-line gold initials surrounded by tri-color green, maroon, and blue-filled boxes; black flourishing; 87v line drawing of a man's head in profile; some five-line gold initials.
Number of scribes, ff 1-187v: 2.
Script, ff 1-187v: Italian gothic.
Layout, ff 1-187v: One column of 13 lines ruled in drypoint. - Former Owner(s):
- Charles Sauvageot, Académie Royale de Musique in France (late 19th century); William Bragge (1823-84), his sale, Sotheby's, 7 June 1876, lot 108; Henry Hucks Gibbs (1819-1907), 1st Baron Aldenham; Aldenham sale, Sotheby's, 22 March 1937, lot 179 to Thorpe.
- Note:
- ff 1-187v: Copied after 1446, the canonization of Nicholas of Tolentino (in the calendar on 10 September).
ff 1-187v: Latin.
ff. 1-187v: Contains: Calendar; office of the BVM with changed service for week & liturgical time; mass of the BVM; office of the dead; penitential psalms & litany; short hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit.
Incipit, ff. 1-187v: horas canonicas cum devotione tibi sancte spiritus pia ratione dixi ut nos insites inspiratione et inuamne ingiter in celi regione. Amen.
Explicit, ff. 1-187v: Salutari nostro preoccupemus fatiem euis in confessione. - Institutional Record:
- https://archive.org/details/MS03_3
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/bookofhoursuseof00cath/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
