summary
Book of Hours, use of Rome
note (text)
This Book of Hours, Use of Rome, is from fifteenth- or sixteenth-century Flanders. Although now missing at least eleven leaves that likely had miniatures, it retains nineteen leaves with three-quarter or full borders with floral specimens and sometimes lattice-work against colored backgrounds, inhabited by creatures including butterflies and moths, snails, birds, an owl, and a monkey. Prayers, suffrages, and Gospel lessons precede the Hours of the Virgin.
extent
138 ff. (CCLL)iv+138+iv
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
110
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
80
justification : height (mm)
63
justification : width (mm)
40
script type
Textualis meridionalis
note (deco)
floral and inhabited borders; red, blue, and gold decorated initials and line fillers throughout
binding
S. XIX English russia leather, blind tooled, gilt edges. Stamped in gold on spine: "Officium Beatae Maria Virginis," "Latin Ms," and "Flemish XV Century."
origDate : proposed date
15th or 16th century
note (history)
Book plates of Robert Hoe (on inside front cover) and John Frederick Lewis (on recto of front fly leaf). Unidentified armorial book plate with six lions on inside front cover.
provenance
Robert Hoe (sold 1912); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia
ID Arkindex
91e08243-5f42-4f28-91d9-1f02ccc3700d
HORAE_1200pxmin (1815 mss)
Philadelphia_Free_Library_of_Philadelphia_Lewis_E_103.tar.gz
Digitization-type
single page
