Book of hours : use of Rome : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Book of hours : use of Rome : in Latin
Former owner:
Parroco di Taviano, Luigi Bruno, active 20th century
Former owner:
Libri, Edoardo, active 20th century
Former owner:
Saluti, Tomasso, active 20th century
Auctioneer:
Pandolfini (Firm)
Former owner:
That Guy with the Books
Date:
[1475?–1499?]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Inscriptions
humanistic scripts
Books of hours
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Italy
Extent:
117 leaves : parchment ; 151 x 112 (80 x 55) mm bound to 16 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/d217w158q
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-11v: Matins (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome; begins imperfectly)
2. fol. 11v-39v: Lauds (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
3. fol. 40r-45v: Prime (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
4. fol. 45v-50r: Terce (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
5. fol. 51v-54v: Sext (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
6. fol. 55r-59v: Nones (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
7. fol. 60r-67r: Vespers (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
8. fol. 67r-83v: Compline (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
9. fol. 84r-v: blank. Formerly the first leaf of the Hours of the Cross, beginning with a full illuminated border on its recto, as demonstrated by offsetting on 83v. Now replaced with a later paper leaf.
10. fol. 85r-88r: Hours of the Cross (begins imperfectly)
11. fol. 88v-89v: blank. Fol. 89 formerly the first leaf of the Seven Penitential Psalms, beginning with a full illuminated border on its recto, as demonstrated by offsetting on 88v. Now replaced with a blank parchment leaf.
12. fol. 90r-104r: Seven Penitential Psalms (begins imperfectly)
13. fol. 104r-117r: Litanies and prayers.
14. fol. 117v: originally blank, with later addition of Abgar’s epistles to Christ.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger; place and date conjectured from internal evidence (script, decoration)
Origin: Created in Italy in the late 15th century.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: On parchment flyleaf at front: “Regalato al P. Edoardo Libri da Don Luigi Bruno Parroco di Taviano [Lecce] nella Quaresima 1930” and “Al Fratello in Cristo Mons. Can. Tommaso Saluti il Fratello P. Edoardo Libri ricordando il suo 25mo di sacerdozio 2 Agosto 1939”. Offered through Pandolfini Auction House, Florence (2023 May 23, lot 205) to Zubairul Islam dba That Guy with the Books.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in December, 2023, from That Guy with the Books.
Purchase; Zubairul Islam dba That Guy with the Books; 20231220; 2023.109.
Notes (object):
Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (one leaf of 19th-century paper, two leaves of early parchment) + 117 + fol. i (early parchment) ; I⁸(-1 leaf before fol. 1, with loss of text) II-X⁸ XI⁸(-5, fol. 84, with loss of text, replaced with a blank leaf of 19th-century paper) XII⁸(-2, fol. 89, with loss of text, replaced with a blank parchment leaf) XIII-XIV⁸ XV⁶(+2, fol.113 is a singleton) ; horizontal catchwords at the end of each quire. Modern arabic foliation, in pencil, without breaks for missing or cancelled leaves, thus reaching 117. Those numbers used here for reference.
Layout: Single column, 12 lines, bounding and writing lines ruled in red. Guide letters throughout.
Script: Written in two humanist bookhands under gothic influence (see, for example, biting between the bows of adjacent letters, throughout). Hand 1: fol.1-83v (Hours of the Virgin); hand 2: fol. 85r-117r.
Decoration: With seven illuminated white vine initials of three to six lines at the beginning of each hour in the Hours of the Virgin. Two-line illuminated initials on blue and purple grounds at the beginnings of each psalm, hymn, etc. Alternating blue and gold capitals throughout.
Binding: Bound in ca. 19th-century gilt red goatskin. Edges sprinkled in red.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_019157
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.297
Barcode:
39999092711819