summary
Book of Hours, use of Rome
note (text)
F. 14-102= Off. B. M. V.; F. 105-166v°= Off. Defunct.; (CCLL)
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
143
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
97
justification : height (mm)
85
justification : width (mm)
45
note (deco)
Alternating 2-line red or blue initials with very careful and elaborate penwork in both colors extending the full length of the folio; 1-line initials, red with purple harping or blue with red. Red rubrics throughout.
binding
Bound, 1972, in red reverse calf over wooden boards, replacing a previous binding in red velvet; gauffered gilt edges.
origDate : proposed date
From : 1480 (CCLL) To : 1500 (CCLL)
provenance
Written at the end of the fifteenth century, possibly in Florence as suggested by the style of the decoration. The coat of arms on f. 15, apparently original, is that of the Morelli family of Turin; see J. Gelli, 3500 Ex Libris Italiani (Milan 1908) fig. 425, gules two lion's jambs or in saltire paws to the chief and in chief a chess-rook or. Other arms added later on f. 1v, and covering an earlier escutcheon, azure five mullets of eight points in a cross or (possibly a variant of the arms of the Lancillotti family of Rome). A note, s. XV, on f. i verso reads, Eugenio quarto, 1431, Condulmeria famiglia, Venetus (referring to the election of Gabriele Condulmer of Venice to the papacy in 1431 as Eugenius IV). Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
