Book of hours : use of Rome : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Book of hours : use of Rome : in Latin
Creator:
Catholic Church
Illuminator:
Antonio, di Niccolò di Lorenzo di Domenico, 1445-1527
Former owner:
Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
Former owner:
La Vallière, Louis César de LaBaume LeBlanc de, 1708-1780
Former owner:
d'Hézy, Bernard
Former owner:
Frost, Henry Harvey
Former owner:
Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Date:
[1470–1480]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Books of hours
devotional calendars
Gothic scripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Italy > Tuscany (region) > Firenze (province) > Florence
Extent:
184 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 132 x 95 (61 x 42) mm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s465b875t
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Place of origin:
[Florence]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-12v: calendar (Roman use, half full)
2. fol. 13-23v: Matins (Hours of the Virgin, Roman use)
3. fol. 23v-36: Lauds (Hours of the Virgin, Roman use)
4. fol. 36v-41: Prime (Hours of the Virgin, Roman use)
5. fol. 41v-46: Terce (Hours of the Virgin, Roman use)
6. fol. 46v-50v: Sext (Hours of the Virgin, Roman use)
7. fol. 50v-55: Nones (Hours of the Virgin, Roman use)
8. fol. 55-63: Vespers (Hours of the Virgin, Roman use)
9. fol. 63-67v: Compline (Hours of the Virgin, Roman use)
10. fol. 67v-83v: seasonal variants (Hours of the Virgin, Roman use)
11. fol. 84-85: blank.
12. fol. 85v-137: Office of the Dead.
13. fol. 137v-138v: blank.
14. fol. 139-164: Penitential Psalms and Litany.
15. fol. 164v: blank.
16. fol. 165-169v: Hours of the Cross.
17. fol. 170-170v: blank.
18. fol. 171-184: Gradual Psalms.
19. fol. 184v: blank.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Date, place of production, and name of illuminator from Francesca Manzari in the 2016 Beyond words exhibition catalog (number 229).
Origin: Written in Florence between 1470 and 1480. Illuminated by Antonio di Niccolò di Domenico. See Beyond words catalog, no. 229.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Owned by Louis Cesar de la Baume Le Blanc (a.k.a. the Due de La Valliere, d. 1780), his December 1783 sale, lot 322; owned by Robert Hoe, nr. 30 in his 1909 catalogue, his sale at Anderson, Cat. 906 (4/24/1911), no. 2156; Bernard d'Hézy (his bookplate, fol. ii verso); Quaritch Cat. 328 (1914), no. 579; cat. for 1931, no. 77; cat. 594 (1941), no. 30; and cat. 613 (1943), no. 23; Harvey Frost (his bookplate, fol. i verso).
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL from Maggs in 1955 (BPL plate inside front cover and acquisition note on fol. 1).
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, 215
Notes (object):
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii + 184 + ii ; 1¹² 2-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9⁴ ; decorative catchwords, lower center margin final verso of each quire, surrounded by four penwork flowers. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each recto.
Layout: Single column, thirteen lines. Bounding and writings lines in purple plummet.
Script: Written in a southern gothic textualis formata (rotunda) in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration (primary): One full-page miniature: The Three Living and the Three Dead (fol. 85v, The Office of the Dead). Four five- to seven-line miniatures: The Virgin and Child with marginal portraits of four saints (fol. 13, seven-line historiated initial) -- A skeleton wearing a crown (fol. 86, seven-line historiated initial) -- King David playing a lyre (fol. 139, five-line historiated initial) -- Cross with instruments of the Passion (fol. 165, seven-line historiated initial).
Decoration (secondary): One-line initials throughout alternating red and blue; two-line initials throughout alternating gold with blue filigree or blue with red, with harping and filigree extending the height of the margin; eight five-line initials in colors on gold with acanthus, filled in blue with gold filigree highlighting with gold balls in outer margin, at the beginning of each Hour of the Virgin (fol. 23v, 36v, 41v, 46v, 50v, 55 and 63) and the Gradual Psalms (fol. 171, with 3/4 border of scrolling acanthus and gold balls); four seven-line historiated initials and one full-page miniature, in colors and acanthus on gold, with full borders of acanthus and gold with busts, putti and grotesques.
Binding: Ca. 19th-century French red morocco over pasteboard (unstamped, but attributed to Derome in 1909 catalogue), gilt fillet border and filigree turn-ins, spine gilt-stamped in compartments, "OFFICIUM/ VIRGINES/ MSS SUR/ VEL. AVEC/ MINIAT."; marbled paper pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves front and back; paper flyleaf at front and back, partial watermark IVH, all edges gilt.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: More Books/BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 62-63; Nancy Netzer, ed., Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), no. 84; Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 229.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018696
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.136
MS 1560 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999085424818