Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts 144
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS575
- Shelfmark:
- Ricketts 144
- Title:
- Book of Hours
- Artist:
- Bartolomeo di Domenico di Guidi
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- s. XV(3/4); 1450-1475
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Binding: Old (probably eighteenth-century) leather over pasteboards, paper endleaves, rebacked; in a fawn cloth case.
Figurative details, ff. 242: 8 large white-vine illuminated initials, with marginal extensions (fols. 28v, 44r, 50v, 57r, 62v, 68v, 79r and 85v); five large historiated initials, the first with a full floral border, others with three-quarter floral borders, showing the Virgin and Child, three-quarter length (fol. 13r, Matins, text in gold capitals on a blue panel), a skeleton, head and...
Other decoration, ff. 242: Small initials in alternating red and blue, some 4-line initials in burnished gold on coloured panels with tracery in white and yellow.
Script, ff. 242: Humanistic Minuscule.
Layout, ff. 242: Collation: i#^12#, ii–xxiv#^10#, with horizontal catchwords; ruled in pale red ink, 13 lines, written-space 64 mm. by 45 mm. - Former Owner(s):
- Franciscus Aloysius Phillipus, with his eighteenth-century booklabel (Gelli 1908, p. 168); C. L. Ricketts, bought in November 1924 from Lathrop Harper; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
Franciscus Aloysius Phillipus, with his eighteenth-century booklabel (Gelli 1908, p. 168); C. L. Ricketts, bought in November 1924 from Lathrop Harper; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
Franciscus Aloysius Phillipus, with his eighteenth-century booklabel (Gelli 1908, p. 168); C. L. Ricketts, bought in November 1924 from Lathrop Harper; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
- Note:
- Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 639.
ff. 242: Some wear. The manuscript may once have had full-page miniatures on separate sheets, which would have been inserted opposite fols. 13r, 113r, 173r, 203r and 237r, with complementary subjects such as the Annunciation,a funeral service, David and Goliath, perhaps the Agony in the Garden, and the crucifixion. The arms on fol. 13r are those of Lotti, of Florence (argent, 3 fasces sable...
ff. 242: Latin.
ff. 1v-237r: Use of Rome. The book comprises: a Calendar (fol. 1v), including (though not in red) Saint Donatus, 7 August, bishop of Arezzo, and Saint Cerbonius, 10 October, bishop of Piombino, Tuscany; the Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome (fol. 13r), with the seasonal variants from fol. 85v; the Office of the Dead (fol. 113r); the Penitential Psalms (fol. 173r) and Litany, including Saint... - Institutional Record:
- https://archive.org/details/Ricketts144_40
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Ricketts144_40/manifest.json
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