Book of hours : Office of the Passion and Office of the Dead : Franciscan use : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Book of hours : Office of the Passion and Office of the Dead : Franciscan use : in Latin
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Schab, William H.
Date:
[1300–1330]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Books of hours
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Gothic scripts
devotional calendars
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Italy > Marches (region) > Macerata (province) > Camerino
Extent:
100 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 98 x 80 (57 x 47) mm, in box to 24 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/d217wg67c
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-12: calendar (Franciscan use, localizable to Camerino)
2. fol. 12-22: Matins (Office of the Passion)
3. fol. 22-26: Lauds (Office of the Passion)
4. fol. 26-30: Prime (Office of the Passion)
5. fol. 30v-38: Sext (Office of the Passion)
6. fol. 38v-42: Nones (Office of the Passion)
7. fol. 42v-46v: Vespers (Office of the Passion; ends imperfectly: lacking one leaf after fol. 46)
8. fol. 47-51v: Compline (Office of the Passion; begins imperfectly)
9. fol. 52-100v: Office of the Dead (Franciscan use; begins imperfectly)
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis; date based on Sticca and Manzari.
Origin: Written in Camerino, Italy (in the Marches) ca. 1320-1330 (see Sticca, p. 144), and certainly before 1338, the date of an added calendar entry on 28 April. Manzari dates to the first decade of the 14th century. The calendar includes Camerino saints Ansuinus (13 March) and Venatius (17 May). The calendar and the Office of the Dead also suggest Franciscan use.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1954 from William H. Schab (cat. 20, no. 8).
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 214-215
Notes (object):
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (contemporary manuscript waste) + 100 + ii (contemporary manuscript waste) ; 1-3¹² 4¹²⁻¹ 5⁸⁻⁴ 6¹⁰ 7-9¹² 10⁴⁻¹ (lacking one leaf after fol. 46, four leaves after fol. 51, and one leaf before fol. 100) ; decorative catchwords in black, lower margin of final versos. Modern pencil foliation in arabic numerals, upper outer corner of most rectos (off by +1 after fol. 60, so reaches 101 instead of 100).
Layout: Single column, 11 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet.
Script: Written in a southern gothic textualis formata in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration (primary): Fifteen full-page miniatures: The Betrayal of Christ (fol. 18v) -- Christ captured (fol. 19) -- Christ before Annas (fol. 24v) -- Christ bound and led (fol. 25) -- Christ before Caiphas (fol. 26v) -- Christ blindfolded and beaten (fol. 27) -- Pilate enthroned (fol. 30v) -- Flagellation (fol. 31) -- Christ before Herod (fol. 34v) -- The Road to Calvary (fol. 35) --Christ denuded (fol. 38v) -- The crucifixion (fol. 39) -- Christ pierced (fol. 42v) -- Deposition (fol. 43) -- (Perhaps a pieta) (fol. 47) -- Burial (fol. 47).
Decoration (secondary): One-line versal initials throughout alternating red and blue; 2-line initials throughout alternating blue with red and gold or red with blue/purple and gold; four- to six-line historiated initials in colors on gold followed by opening letters of text in gold on blue field, throughout, seventeen in all: Bearded saint (fol. 13) -- full-page historiated initial of Christ praying in the wilderness (13v) -- Youthful saint holding a book (19v) -- Bearded saint (20v) -- Bearded saint (21v) -- Christ holding a book (25v) -- Christ blindfolded (27v) -- Christ holding a book (29v) -- Christ blessing (31v) -- Christ blessing (34) -- Christ blindfolded (35v) -- Christ holding a book (37v) -- Bearded saint (39v) -- Bearded saint (41v) -- Bearded saint (43v) -- Youthful saint (47v) -- Christ holding a book (49v) -- Saint holding a book (51).
Binding: Original blind-incised sheepskin over boards, rebacked, tawed strap intact, clasp lacking. Binding may have been reversed at the time of rebacking, as the current final flyleaf has an offset of the first folio but has been inverted, suggesting that the current back cover was originally the front. In addition, the clasp closes from the front to the back instead of the standard configuration. Upper front flyleaf and conjugate pastedown from a thirteenth-century breviary.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955): 75; Sandro Sticca, "Officium Passionis Domini: An Unpublished Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century," Franciscan Studies XXXIV (1974): 144-199 and figs; Francesca Manzari, "Italian Books of Hours and Prayer Books in the Fourteenth Century," in Books of Hours Reconsidered, ed. Sandra Hindman (London: Harvey Miller, 2013), 158-159.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018692
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.131
MS 1554 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999091846590