summary
Book of Hours, use of Rome
note (text)
This is a mid-fifteenth-century Book of Hours, use of Rome.
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
117
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
90
justification : height (mm)
78
justification : width (mm)
54
note (deco)
1 column miniature with full foliated border. Historiated initials.red and blue decorated initials throughout
binding
S. XIX mottled vellum. Stamped in gold on spine, "offices de vierge" and "avec miniature." Edges speckled with red.
origDate : proposed date
From : 1450 (CCLL) To : 1450 (CCLL)Mid-15th century
note (history)
Note in Latin written by Louis Bourguet on the 103v in which he explains that he acquired the book in Verona in 1698 and that he is a Protestant from Nîmes who lied in the Swiss towns of Bern and Zurich between 1685 and 1702.
provenance
Bought at Verona, May 1698, by Louis Bourguet; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia
ID Arkindex
d639077d-4919-458c-a99d-639c03fb6aa2
HORAE_1200pxmin (1815 mss)
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