summary
Book of Hours, use of Rome
note (text)
F. 19-103= Off. B. M. V.; F. 140-198v°= Off. Defunct.; (CCLL)
extent
III+211+III ff. (CCLL)
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
77
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
55
justification : height (mm)
43
justification : width (mm)
30
note (deco)
Four inserted singletons, blank on the recto with a full page miniature of mediocre quality on the verso, and a historiated initial on the facing recto. Two other openings with similar borders and historiated initials, but without the full page inserted miniature. Individual hours in the Office of the Virgin after matins with a medallion in the lower margin with the appropriate subject.
binding
Bound, s. XIX, in tan vellum over pasteboard, with gilt tooling of leafy sprays and onlay deep red morocco flowers; gilt edges.
origDate : proposed date
From : 1500 (CCLL) To : 1520 (CCLL)
provenance
Written in the early sixteenth century, certainly after 1471, when Sixtus IV was elected to the papacy (see f. 137v), and probably in Tuscany to judge by the saints in the calendar. The coats of arms of the first owners are, f. 19v, azure, on a bend or three mullets azure (possibly the Ginori family of Florence) and, f. 20, gules, four crescents argent 1, 2, 1. Placed by G. D. Smith in a sale by Anderson, New York, 12 December 1917, n. 243 to G. D. Smith. Smith Catalogue [n. 14, 1916?] n. 140 to Henry E. Huntington.
