Several entries in calendar suggest Dominican Use, including Saints Thomas Aquinas (translation Jan. 28 and Mar. 7); Peter Martyr (April 29); and Dominic (translation May 24 and Aug. 5) Prayers on fols. 151r-155r include Psalm 69 followed by versicles and responses; "Deus cui p[ro]priu[m] e[st] misereri . . . ut q[uo]s delictoru[m] cathena co[n]stringit"; "Exaudi q[uesumu]s d[omi]ne supplicum preces" (fol. 152v); "Deus q[ui] culpa offende[r]is" (fol. 153r); "Deus a q[uo] s[an]c[t]a desideria recta consilia" (fol. 153v); and "Fidelium d[eu]s o[mn]iu[m] conditor et rede[m]ptor... Binding: Italian, gold and silver brocade covers on wooden boards, fluted gilt edges, two silver clasps, one with an engraved Ave Maria (Hail Mary) plaque, fifteenth century(?); rebacked with red morocco, nineteenth century(?) Layout: One column of thirteen lines, hard point ruling; written area: 67 x 45 mm Script: Humanistic Decoration: Three full-page miniatures (perhaps with an additional miniature of the Annunciation missing between fols. 14v-15r); four white vine scroll borders with initials attached; seven stand-alone white vine scroll initials; illuminated and decorated initials throughout Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2042, no. 99. Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Library, 1937), p. 131-132, no. 118, pl. 26. Related resource: Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 453, no. 118. Related resource: Levi D'Ancona, Mirella, "Postille a Girolamo da Cremona," in Studi di bibliografia e di storia in onore di Tammaro de Marinis (Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1964), vol. 3, pp. 66-67 (article pp. 45-104). Related resource: Eberhardt, Hans-Joachim, Die Miniaturen von Liberale da Verona, Gerolamo da Cremona und Venturino da Milano in den Chorbüchern des Doms von Siena: Dokumentation, Attribution, Chronologie (Munich: Dissertations- und Fotodruck Frank, 1983), p. 199, note 67, pp. 220-221, note 225. Related resource: Wieck, Roger S., Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life, exh. cat. (New York: George Braziller in association with The Walters Art Gallery, 1988), cat. no. 117, p. 224. Related resource: Christiansen, Keith, in Keith Christiansen, Laurence B. Kanter, and Carl Brandon Strehlke, eds., Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988), pp. 298-299. Related resource: Eberhardt, Hans-Joachim "Liberale da Verona," in The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (London: Grove, 1996), vol. 19, p. 307. Related resource: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 100-101, no. 30. Related resource: Puglisi, Catherine, and William Barcham, eds., Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese (New York: Museum of Biblical Art, 2011), p. 60. Related resource: King'oo, Clare Costley, Miserere Mei: The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2012), pp. 38, 186. (ff. 91v-92r;. 132v) Provenance: Note in sixteenth-century cursive hand on front pastedown: "Iste liber est sororis artemia picholominj" (This book belongs to Sister Artemesia Piccolomini); Susan B. Minns (sold at American Art Association, 2-3 May 1922, lot 421); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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