Ms. codex. In Latin. Title devised by cataloger. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Secundo folio: Februarius habet dies xxviii... Collation: Parchment, fol. i (paper) + 170 + i (paper) ; 112 2-410 510−1 (one leaf lacking before fol. 51, the beginning of sext) 6-1610 1710−1 (last leaf cancelled) ; decorative catchwords, lower center margin of the final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page. Layout: 1 column, 14 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet. Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics. Decoration: Red or blue one-line initials throughout; 2-line initials in red with pink filigree or blue with red filigree throughout; 3- to 5-line initials in gold and colors with flowers and gold balls into margin (full border on fol. 13), at the beginning of each hour, twelve in all; three of these historiated: fol. 13 (Matins, Hours of the Virgin): The Virgin and child; full floral border... Binding: 18th-century gilt-stamped vellum over pasteboard, title gilt-stamped on spine, "Officium B. M. V." Origin: Written in Italy (Padua?) in the late fifteenth century; the litany includes St. Prosdocimus, the first Bishop of Padua, not found in the typical Roman calendar or litany. Provenance: 19th-century label remnants inside front cover. Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1956 from John F. Fleming (Fleming ascribed to the manuscript a Flemish origin. Call number: MS q Med.158. Former call number: MS 1583.
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