textLang
Latin (LA, LAT)French (FR, FRE)
summary
Book of Hours (Rome)
note (text)
F. 1-46v°= Off. B. M. V.; F. 73-88v°= Off. B. M. V.; (CCLL)
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
190
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
140
note (deco)
One 2-line pale pink initial on burnished gold ground with foliate marginal tendrils on which rests a black-headed bird; smaller 1-line flourished initials in alternating burnished gold and blue; line endings in blue and red.
binding
16th-century (c.1570) French calf binding with gold-tooled center ornament and cornerpieces
origDate : proposed date
c.1440-1460
provenance
Diogo de Mello family; Fernando Palha (d. 1897); Given by John Batterson Stetson (1884-1952), 3 December 1928.
bibl
1983, Cambridge (Mass.), p. 108, fig. 28De Ricci et Wilson 1935-1937, I, p. 987Dogaer 1987, p. 31Light 1995, p. 175-181, pl. 21De Ricci et Wilson 1935-1937, 987Palha 1896, I, 11-12, no. 28Light 1995, I, 174-181 note (temp)
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