1. fol. 1-12v: calendar.
2. fol. 13-25: Matins (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
3. fol. 25-41: Lauds (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
4. fol. 41-46: Prime (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
5. fol. 46-50v: Terce (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
6. fol. 51-54: Sext (begins imperfectly, lacking one leaf before fol. 51) (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
7. fol. 54-58: Nones (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
8. fol. 58v-67v: Vespers (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
9. fol. 67v-74: Compline (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
10. fol. 74-109: Seasonal variants (Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome)
11. fol. 109-126: Penitential Psalms and Litany.
12. fol. 126-162v: Office of the Dead (use of Rome)
13. fol. 163-166v: Hours of the Cross.
14. fol. 166v-170: Athanasian Creed.
15. fol. 170v: blank.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Italy (Padua?) in the late 15th century; the litany includes St. Prosdocimus, the first Bishop of Padua, not found in the typical Roman calendar or litany.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: 19th-century label remnants inside front cover.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1956 from John F. Fleming (Fleming ascribed to the manuscript a Flemish origin).
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 218
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: Februarius habet dies xxviii...
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (paper) + 170 + i (paper) ; 1¹² 2-4¹⁰ 5¹⁰⁻¹ (one leaf lacking before fol. 51, the beginning of sext) 6-16¹⁰ 17¹⁰⁻¹ (last leaf cancelled) ; decorative catchwords, lower center margin of the final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page.
Layout: Single column, 14 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet.
Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Red or blue one-line initials throughout; two-line initials in red with pink filigree or blue with red filigree throughout; three- to five-line initials in gold and colors with flowers and gold balls into margin (full border on fol. 13), at the beginning of each hour, 12 in all; three of these historiated: fol. 13 (Matins, Hours of the Virgin): The Virgin and child; full floral border in gold and colors; two putti in the lower margin holding a vine-bordered cartouche with effaced arms -- fol. 109 (Penitential Psalms): bust of crowned King David -- fol. 126 (Office of the Dead): A skull lying on a hillside.
Binding: 18th-century gilt-stamped vellum over pasteboard, title gilt-stamped on spine, "Officium B. M. V."
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