summary
Book of Hours, use of Rome
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
113
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
80
script type
Textualis meridionalis
note (deco)
Four leaves with 6- or 5-line historiated initials and full borders.Initials (of the historiated initials) in white-patterned blue, green and pink acanthus on gold grounds; 2- or 3-line secondary initials in gold with blue flourishing or blue with red flourishing.
binding
In Italian red morocco, rolled and stamped in gold, s. XVIII.
provenance
Written with Augustinian interest; unidentified coat of arms on f. 1; possible family motto "Primi sine gloria" on f. 244v; Fanny Hastings Plimpton ( ?).
