textLang
Latin (LA, LAT)Italian (IT, ITA)
summary
Book of Hours, use of Rome
note (text)
This Book of Hours, of the Use of Rome, was likely made in Milan around 1520; its miniatures are typical of Milanese miniature painting of the third decade of the sixteenth century. The book begins with a calendar with includes Saint Ambrose, bishop of Milan. There follow three full-page prefatory miniatures depicting an unidentified female martyr, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, and the Virgin and Child respectively, prior the the Hours of the Virgin. The first page of the Hours of the Virgin (fol. 17r) is ornamented with a full foliate border and includes, in its lower margin, a cartouche with the Sforza "Biscione" (sinister) and De Raude/da Rho (dexter) coats of arms and lettering, somewhat damaged, which can be read as "Cornelia de Raude." Each Hour for the Hours of the Virgin and each subsequent textual section begins with a very fine historiated initial; these number thirteen in total. The final prayer, to Christ, is in Italian (fols. 122r-130v).
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
143
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
104
justification : height (mm)
91
justification : width (mm)
70
origDate : proposed date
From : 1520 (CCLL) To : 1520 (CCLL)circa 1520
provenance
Belonged to Marie-Caroline de Bourbon, Duchesse de Berry (1798-1870) and to Baron Edmond de Rothschild. Acquired from H. P. Kraus in 1969 by Edwin J. Beinecke for the Beinecke Library.
ID Arkindex
7e415c38-c078-49ed-86f2-f9b7b6e5f224
HORAE_1200pxmin (1815 mss)
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Digitization-type
single page
