summary
Book of Hours, use of Rome
note (text)
F. 2-13v°= Cal.= OP; F. 15-91= Off. B. M. V.; F. 96-131v°= Off. Defunct.; (CCLL)This compact Book of Hours, housed in a worn but apparently original brocade binding with original silver clasps, was produced around 1470 in Siena and contains three miniatures painted by Liberale da Verona. These small and extremely refined miniatures represent Christ as Man of Sorrows supported by Angels (fol. 91v), Death standing in a landscape (fol. 95v), and the penitent King David (fol. 132v). The script is humanistic in style with some characteristics of Italian Rotunda. The manuscript begins with a calendar for Dominican Use (fols. 2r-13v), followed by the Hours of the Virgin for the Use of Rome (fols. 15r-91r), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 92r-95r), the Office of the Dead (fols. 95r-131v), and the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers (fols. 133r-155r). The incipit pages for the four major textual sections are decorated with full white-vine or "bianchi girari" scroll borders that connect to the illuminated initials contained within. Smaller white vine initials, with no illuminated borders, mark the post-Matins sections of the Hours of the Virgin.
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
132
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
98
justification : height (mm)
67
justification : width (mm)
45
note (deco)
3 full-page miniatures (originally 4; one missing between ff. 14 and 15); figured roundel (f. 1r)4 white vine scroll borders, 9 white vine scroll initials, illuminated and decorated initials throughout.
binding
S. XV ? Italian gold and silver brocade covers on wooden boards with two silver clasps, lower clasp with plaque engraved AVE MARIA, fluted gilt edges. Rebacked with red morocco, s. XIX.
origDate : proposed date
From : 1470 (CCLL) To : 1470 (CCLL)Circa 1470
note (history)
Note in cursive hand, s. XVI, on front pastedown: "Iste liber est sororis artemia picholominj".
provenance
Artemesia Piccolomini, s. XVI; Susan B. Minnis, Boston (c. 1850-1922); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia
bibl
2001, Philadelphia, 100-101, no. 30Christiansen, Kanter, Strehlke 1988, 298-99.De Ricci et Wilson 1935-1937, II, p. 2042Wolf 1937, p. 131-132 n° 118Wieck 1988, p. 224 n° 117, fig. 1302001, Philadelphia, p. 100-101 n° 30De Ricci et Wilson 1935-1937, II, 2042, no. 99Wolf 1937, 131-132, no. 118, pl. 26 ID Arkindex
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HORAE_1200pxmin (1815 mss)
Philadelphia_Free_Library_of_Philadelphia_Lewis_E_118.tar.gz
Digitization-type
single page
